Rate My Professor Joni Acuff

Acuff specializes in critical multicultural art education, racial literacy, curriculum development, and social justice pedagogy in art education. She has co-edited influential books including A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back (University of Arizona Press, 2022), Race and Art Education (Davis Publishing, 2021), and Multiculturalism in Art Museums Today (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). Key peer-reviewed publications feature Visual racial literacy: A not-so-new 21st century skill (Art Education, 2022), Afrofuturism: Reimagining art curriculum for Black existence (Art Education, 2020), Black feminist theory in 21st century art education (Studies in Art Education, 2018), and Theoretical considerations for art education research with and about underserved populations (Studies in Art Education, 2013). Her scholarship has garnered major awards such as the Manual Barkan Award for Scholarly Merit (National Art Education Association, 2020), J. Eugene Grigsby Award for Culturally Engaged Research (2019), Mary J. Rouse Early Career Award (2017), and Kenneth Marantz Distinguished Alumni Award (OSU, 2020). Acuff has served in editorial and leadership roles, including as an inductee to the Art Education Research Institute (2015) and Council for Policy Studies in Art Education (2017), contributing to equity and culturally responsive practices in the field.