Beth Link is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction specializing in Cultural Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She formerly taught elementary art in Austin and Denver public schools. Currently she is an Assistant Instructor for undergraduate courses including Sociocultural Foundations of Learning and Arts Integration for Multi-Disciplinary Connections. Beth also supervises preservice art teachers, leads professional development on arts integration and culturally responsive pedagogy, and serves on the East Mall Advisory Task Force. She received her M.A. in Art Education from the University of Texas at Austin in 2016 and her B.A. in Art Education from the University of Northern Colorado in 2007. Her research applies critical race theory to visual art curriculum, enactment, and teacher identity formation in order to understand the complex ways teachers tell stories through art objects. Beth's work further explores anti-oppressive pedagogy through arts integration and contemporary art counter stories.
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy; Anti-Racist Pedagogy; Critical Multicultural Art Education; Curriculum Development; Critical Race Theory in Art Education; Art Integration; Critical Whiteness Studies; Women and Gender Studies
Keffrelyn D Brown (Supervisor)
Creates scholarship based around teacher education, especially relating to race and culture.
Member, East Mall Advisory Task Force, University of Texas, Austin, TX(2020 - 2021)
Link, B. (2021). Who holds the power? Students respond to whiteness in the canon. Art Education, 74(5), 32–37. doi:10.1080/00043125.2021.1928471.
Kemp, T.., Link, B.. & Powell, C.. (2020). Accounting for women in the arts: Reconsidering womens agency, networks, and relationships. Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernism: Amsterdam University Press.
Link, B.. (2019). White lies: Unraveling whiteness in the elementary art curriculum. Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, 36(3).
Graduate School Continuing Fellowship, University of Texas, Austin, TX (2021 - 2022)
George I. Sanchez Endowed Presidential Scholarship, University of Texas, Austin, TX (2021 - 2021)
Kraehe, A., Wilson, G., Lopez, V., Link, B., Tegarden, A., & Yang, H. Art Education's "Black Box": A Dialogue on Systems That Produce In(Equity)., Presented virtually at The National Art Education Conference., (2021)
Cahnmann-Taylor, M., McGovern, K. R., Dawson, K. Link, B., Wager, A. Tucker, A. Norris, J., Metz, M. M., & Hobbs, K. Acting Up: Dramatic Approaches for Socially Engaged Language and Literacy Education Online and in Person., Presented virtually at the American Educational Research Association Conference., (2021)
Dossett, L. & Link, B. Shifting Terrain: Multivocal Pedagogies in Arts Integration., Presented virtually in at the American Alliance for Theatre & Education, (2021)
Critiquing whiteness in the elementary art curriculum., Presented virtually at The Art Education New Jersey Conference., (2020)
Room for Other Voices: Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy Through Arts Integration., Art Education Research Institute Symposium, Columbia University, New York, NY. (2019)
Accounting for Women: Collaborations, Networks, and Alliances in the Arts., Attending to Early Modern Women, The University of Milwaukee, WI. (2018)
At the intersection of art and girlhood: Fostering dynamic girls through art and feminism., V.O.I.C.E.S. Symposium (Visibility, Orientation, Identity, Creativity, Environment, Spaces), Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. (2018)
Revolution in the art room: Navigating adolescence with feminist pedagogy., National Art Education Association Conference, New York, NY. (2016)
Breaking the silence: Empowering adolescent girls through art., Texas Art Education Association, Houston, TX. (2015)
