Mariah Doren Mariah Doren is the Dean of Graduate, Professional, and Continuing Education at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has a studio practice based in photography that includes collage work combining printmaking, drawing, and photographs included in recent exhibitions at the Danforth Museum and The New Britain Museum of American Art. Mariah’s writing includes a book coauthored with Elissa Armstrong: Let's Talk about Critique: reimagining art and design education, published 2023, by Intellect Press, UK and the University of Chicago Press, USA,  a chapter, “Assessment as Learning” in Introduction to Design Education by Steven Faerm and articles, “Teaching re-seeing: Deploying archives in art and design education” co-authored with Malgorzata Bakalarz-Duverger in Journal of Visual Inquiry and  “Working Collaboratively - Teaching Collaboration” in Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy.  Mariah has a Doctorate in College Teaching of Art and Design from Columbia University, an MFA in photography from Pratt Institute, and a BA in Growth & Structure of Cities from Bryn Mawr College. She is a board member of the National Council of Arts Administrators, has run workshops at the College Art Association and the National Association of Arts Administrators, presented papers at AICAD, International Journal of Design Education Conference, and Digitally Engaged Learning. She has taught courses on Pedagogy, Master’s Thesis, Photography, and Cross-disciplinary studio/seminar courses in art and design at Parsons, SUNY Purchase, SUNY Albany, Columbia University, and Central Michigan University. 




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