Associate Professor
Elissa Armstrong is an associate professor of Cross-Disciplinary Arts in the Department of Fine Arts in the Craft and Material Studies program’s ceramics area. She has presented on first-year pedagogical topics at national and international conferences including College Art Association, Foundations in Art: Theory & Education, International Society for Education Through Art, Mid-American College Art Association, and SECAC, with work featured in numerous galleries and museums including the Fuller Craft Museum and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
She co-authored the book, Do We Have to Call it Critique? Reimagining the Tradition: more inclusive, more fulfilling, and maybe a little more fun, with Mariah Doren at Rhode Island School of Design in 2023, by Intellect Press, UK, affiliate of the University of Chicago Press.
Armstrong received her M.F.A. in ceramics from Alfred University, her B.F.A. in ceramics from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and her B.A. in English literature and art history from Queen’s University. She also earned a B.Ed. in English literature and visual arts from the University of Western Ontario.