Artist in Residence: Dr. Chad Scott
Chad is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator for Art Education in the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he also serves as an artist-in-residence for the Zeiter Literacy Center. He is an interdisciplinary artist that focuses on creating space for introspective placemaking.
There are two key aspects to Dr. Scott’s teaching interests, research agenda, and creative production: the first focuses on arts education and creativity, and the second relates to visual culture, media and visual literacy.
The arts education strand of Dr. Scott’s research centers on processes of creativity, creative socialization, and creative culture. He explores these areas by examining how creative processes relate to the construction and performance of community and identity. This includes examining a range of creative production such as: popular and visual culture; artists and artistic communities; and the spaces in which creativity and cultural production occur. Scott is particularly interested in the ways cultural producers transform their space into a place of creativity—whether a classroom, an artist studio, a writing workshop, or artistic responses to issues specific to a community.
The artistic production strand of Dr. Scott’s work focuses on intersections of narrative, discourse, culture, and information society. He is particularly interested in the ways social structures and institutions shape and are shaped by individual and collective action. His work crosses disciplinary boundaries and draws from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, most often from art, education, and sociology. Utilizing a “best-fit” schema, the most appropriate approach is selected for each project depending on the inherent factors and demands of the particular idea under consideration. Thus, Scott’s artistic production frequently focuses on language, narrative, and discourse through writing, object making, video, multimedia installations, and emerging practices oriented toward social inquiry and civic participation.
For more information, visit Dr. Scott at www.chad-scott.com/about.