Rate My Professor Daniel Barney

Barney's research specializations include arts-based inquiry, art pedagogy, contemporary art practices that challenge conventional knowing, being, and doing, post-qualitative methodological discourses, literacy in the arts, and visual arts curriculum issues. Notable publications encompass 'Visual Culture in the Art Class: Case Studies' (2006), 'A Study of Dress Through Artistic Inquiry: Provoking Understandings of Artist, Researcher, and Teacher Identities' (2009), 'The Billboard Poetry Project' (2015), 'Inoperative Art Education' (2014, co-authored with N. M. Kalin), 'Hunting for Monsters: Visual Arts Curriculum as Agonistic Inquiry' (2014, co-authored with N. M. Kalin), 'Complexity Thinking Mentorship: An Emergent Pedagogy of Graduate Research Development' (2009, co-authored with N. M. Kalin and R. L. Irwin), and 'A/r/tography as a Pedagogical Strategy: Entering Somewhere in the Middle of Becoming Artist' (2019). He received the Joseph E. White Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellowship for his innovative efforts in enhancing teaching through support services. As a multidisciplinary artist, Barney exhibited works in jewelry, glass, photography, paintings, videos, drawing, and sewn pieces in galleries and museums including Ayden Gallery in Vancouver, Coda Gallery in Park City, and university venues across the US and Canada. Known for his dynamic, committed, and inventive teaching, Barney engaged students collaboratively, set high expectations, and influenced art education regionally and nationally through scholarship, workshops, and projects like the 2012 Billboard Poetry Project.