KJR Studios
Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner* from East Palo Alto, CA
Brooklyn | Berlin | Johannesburg
© 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.
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+ Currently (Full-Time): Yale University, School of Art (Sculpture)
+ Link to course resources
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
+ Currently (Full-Time): Yale University, School of Art (Sculpture)
+ Link to course resources
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