KJR Studios

Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner* from East Palo Alto, CA

Brooklyn | Berlin | Johannesburg



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 Teaching + Learning

Currently (Full-Time): Yale University, School of Art (Sculpture)

A curious fourth grader, I began volunteering in my younger brother's special education classroom. Almost 30 years later, I have worked as an educator across various contexts: public high schools, museums, universities, libraries, and more. 

July 2024
Bennington College - MFA Dance Summer Session
(Montpellier, FR)
Co-Instructor, Dance
Languaging the Contemporary


March - June 2024
School for Poetic Computation
(Remote)
Instructor

Let’s Play: Wayward Sentences

January - May 2024
Barnard College
(New York, NY)

Instructor, Department of Art History 
Pedagogy of Play
July 2023
The University of the Arts - MFA Dance Summer Session
(Montpellier, FR)
Co-Instructor, Dance 
Languaging the Contemporary

March - April 2023
School for Poetic Computation
(Remote)
Instructor

Teaching and Learning as “Primitive Hypertext”

October - November 2022
School for Poetic Computation
(Remote)
Instructor

Teaching and Learning as “Primitive Hypertext”

September 2022 - June 2023
The New Museum of Contemporary Art - NEW INC
(New York, NY)

Mentor, Cohort 10
Future Memory
July 2022
The University of the Arts - MFA Dance Summer Session
(Montpellier, FR)
Co-Instructor, Dance
Languaging the Contemporary

January 2022 - May 2024
Yale University - School of Art
(New Haven, CT)

Critic, Sculpture
January 2022 - May 2024
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
(New York, NY)

Instructor, Fine Arts
Teaching as Social Practice
September - December 2021
Yale University - School of Art
(New Haven, CT)

Critic, Painting & Printmaking
July - August 2021
School for Poetic Computation
(Remote)
Instructor

PLEASE DO NOT PERCEIVE ME: The Poetics of Dirty Data and Embedded Stellar Clusters

January 2020
School for Poetic Computation
(New York, NY)
Instructor
Unfinished Sentence: Algorithmic Text Generation

September 2016 - May 2021
School of Visual Arts
(New York, NY)

Instructor, MFA Fine Arts
Research as Practice
Crit
Studio


October 2015
Queens Museum
Museum Educator

Zine Workshop 

August 2013 - October 2022
Education Non-Profit
(New York, NY)
Curriculum Designer, Instructional Coach, Adult Learning Facilitator
High School Global History, Literacy


August 2012 - 2014
Brooklyn Museum 
Gallery/Studio Program Instructor

Collage Workshop
Mixed-Media Workshop
Photography Workshop


August 2012 - June 2013
Continuation High School
Brooklyn, NY
Social Studies Instructor, After School Program Coordinator

Global History and Geography

August 2010 - June 2012
Traditional High School
Brooklyn, NY
Social Studies Instructor, After School Program Coordinator

9th Grade Global History and Geography

August 2008 - June 2010
Traditional High School
Menlo Park 
Humanities Instructor, After School Program Coordinator

9th Grade Humanities, 10th Grade Humanities, Advisory
October 2002 - May 2006
9-12 High School
(Los Angeles County; Inland Empire; East Palo Alto, CA)
Tutor, After School Team, Program Manager

August 1996 - May 2002
Elementary and Middle School
(Bay Area, CA)
Summer School Teacher’s Assistant; Homeschool Teacher’s Assistant / Volunteer in Special Education Classroom

September 1990 - June 1995
Elementary and Middle School
(Bay Area, CA)
Self-Appointed Handwriting and Reading Coach; Self-Appointed Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) book collector