KJR Studios
Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a
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from East Palo Alto, CA
© Kameelah Janan Rasheed. All rights reserved.
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.
August 2025 - June 2027
Inaugural Charles Gaines Chair
California Institute of the Arts
(Valencia, CA)
(Valencia, CA)
Primitive Hypertext: Crit (FA 25); Independent Study (FA 25) The Word is the Fourth Dimension (SP 26); Independent Study (FA 26)
July 2025
Co-Instructor with Chang Yuchen
MFA Dance
MFA Dance
Bennington College - MFA Dance Summer Session
(Montpellier, FR)
(Montpellier, FR)
Languaging the Contemporary
July 2024 -
Critic
Sculpture Department
Sculpture Department
Yale University School of the Arts
(New Haven, CT)
(New Haven, CT)
Thesis (FA 24); Body, Space, Time (FA 24); Crit (SP 25); The Word is the Fourth Dimension (SP 25)
July 2024
Bennington College - MFA Dance Summer Session
(Montpellier, FR)
(Montpellier, FR)
Languaging the Contemporary
March - June 2024
Instructor
School for Poetic Computation
(Remote)
(Remote)
Let’s Play: Wayward Sentences
January - May 2024
Instructor
Department of Art History
Barnard College
(New York, NY)
(New York, NY)
Pedagogy of Play
July 2023
Co-Instructor with Chang Yuchen
MFA Dance
MFA Dance
University of the Arts - MFA Dance Summer Session
(Montpellier, FR)
(Montpellier, FR)
Languaging the Contemporary
March - April 2023
Instructor
School for Poetic Computation
(Remote)
(Remote)
Teaching and Learning as “Primitive Hypertext”
Oct - Nov 2022
Instructor
School for Poetic Computation
(Remote)
(Remote)
Teaching and Learning as “Primitive Hypertext”
Sept 2022 - June 2023
Mentor
Cohort 10
Cohort 10
The New Museum of Contemporary Art - NEW INC
(New York, NY)
(New York, NY)
Future Memory
July 2022
Co-Instructor with Chang Yuchen
MFA Dance
MFA Dance
University of the Arts - MFA Dance Summer Session
(Montpellier, FR)
(Montpellier, FR)
Languaging the Contemporary
Jan 2022 - May 2024
Critic
MFA Sculpture
MFA Sculpture
Yale University School of the Arts
(New Haven, CT)
(New Haven, CT)
Crit and Studio Visits
Jan 2022 - May 2024
Instructor
Fine Arts
Fine Arts
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
(New York, NY)
(New York, NY)
Teaching as Social Practice
Sept - Dec 2021
Critic
Painting & Printmaking
Painting & Printmaking
Yale University School of the Arts
(New Haven, CT)
(New Haven, CT)
Crit and Studio Visits
July - August 2021
Instructor
School for Poetic Computation
(Remote)
(Remote)
PLEASE DO NOT PERCEIVE ME: The Poetics of Dirty Data and Embedded Stellar Clusters
Jan 2020
Instructor
School for Poetic Computation
(New York, NY)
(New York, NY)
Unfinished Sentence: Algorithmic Text Generation
Jan 2016 - May 2021
Instructor
MFA Fine Arts
MFA Fine Arts
School of Visual Arts
(New York, NY)
(New York, NY)
Research as Practice
Crit
Studio
Crit
Studio
Oct 2015
Museum Educator
Queens Museum
(Queens, NY)
(Queens, NY)
Zine Workshop
Aug 2013 - Oct 2022
Curriculum Designer, Instructional Coach, Adult Learning Facilitator
Education Non-Profit
(New York, NY)
(New York, NY)
High School Global History, Literacy
Aug 2012 - 2014
Instructor
Gallery/Studio Program
Gallery/Studio Program
Brooklyn Museum
(Brooklyn, NY)
(Brooklyn, NY)
Collage Workshop
Mixed-Media Workshop
Photography Workshop
Mixed-Media Workshop
Photography Workshop
Aug 2012 - June 2013
Instructor
After School Program Coordinator
After School Program Coordinator
Continuation/Transfer High School
(Brooklyn, NY)
(Brooklyn, NY)
Global History and Geography
Aug 2010 - June 2012
Instructor
After School Program Coordinator
After School Program Coordinator
Charter High School
(Brooklyn, NY)
(Brooklyn, NY)
9th Grade Global History and Geography
Aug 2008 - June 2010
Instructor
Charter High School
(Menlo Park, CA)
(Menlo Park, CA)
9th Grade Humanities
10th Grade Humanities Advisory
10th Grade Humanities Advisory
Oct 2002 - May 2006
Instructor
Tutor
After School Team Program Manager
Tutor
After School Team Program Manager
9-12 High Schools
(Los Angeles County; Inland Empire; East Palo Alto, CA)
(Los Angeles County; Inland Empire; East Palo Alto, CA)
Aug 1996 - May 2002
Summer School Teacher’s Assistant, Homeschool Teacher’s Assistant in Special Education Classroom
Elementary and Middle School
(Bay Area, CA)
(Bay Area, CA)
Sept 1990 - June 1995
Self-Appointed Handwriting and Reading Coach; Self-Appointed Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) book collector
Elementary and Middle School
(Bay Area, CA)
(Bay Area, CA)