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Aimée Littlewood Allen
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EDUCATION

M.A.

Art & Visual Culture Education, University of Arizona

School of Art, 2007, cum laude.

B.F.A.

Craft/ Material Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University

School of Art, 1999, cum laude.

EXPERIENCE

Visual Art Teacher, Alpine Academy College Preparatory High School, Washoe County School District, Sparks, NV. August 2023 - Present.

Art Foundations, 2D Mixed Media, 3D Spatial Dynamics, and Intro to Design (9th-12th grade).


Principal, Artist & Arts-based Educator, Littlewood Creative LLC, Reno, NV. October 2009 - Present.

Independent Arts-based Educator and content developer. Designer of interdisciplinary curricula for museums, informal learning organizations and K12 schools. Current arts-based project for exhibition and K12 instruction: MindSETS: Learn & Grow, by Design © Aimée Littlewood Allen, 2023. Under the banner, Littlewood Creative Photography, from 2010 - 2016, provided in-studio and on-location portrait and event photography services.

Seasonal Substitute & Early Childhood Educator, Patagonia, Truckee River Child Development Center - Reno, NV. April 2022 - September 2023.

Seasonal Teacher & Edu-carer for the NAYCE accredited, Reggia Emilia, outdoor early childhood development center. Certified: HSI Pediatric First Aid and CPR AED Child/Infant/Adult (2023) and Resources for Infant Edu-carers, Level 1.

Assistant Director, Camp Invention! National Inventor’s Hall of Fame, Caughlin Ranch Elementary School, Reno, NV - June 27 - July 1, 2022.

Co-facilitated the K-5th STEAM summer camp.

Laboratory Research Assistant, Thin Films Group, University of Arizona, College of Optical Sciences, Tucson, Arizona - 2006 - 2008.

Coordinated and conducted interdisciplinary laboratory and historical research on The Hockney-Falco Thesis, demonstrating the use of optics by specific Renaissance painters. Co-author of three published papers, with Dr. Charles M. Falco, UA Professor of Optics, Chair - Condensed Matter Physics. Managed administration of Falco, Thin Films Group, including grant proposals and logistics for faculty, visiting international scholars, students, interns and staff.

Co-Director, Pilgrim Heights Camp & Retreat Center, Montour, IA - 2005-2006.

Responsible for program development, institutional planning, staff development and supervision, budget management and promotion of the year-round, 120 acre facility.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Division of Art & Visual Culture Education, University of Arizona, School of Art, Tucson, Arizona - 2003-2005.

Undergraduate course instructor, consecutive semesters, Appreciating Visual Art, Foundations of Art Visual Culture Education and The History and Philosophy of Art Education in the United States.

Curator of Education, The National Quilt Museum, Paducah, Kentucky - 2001 - 2003.

Produced, facilitated and managed K12 education and outreach programs, including the year-round tour program for Paducah Public School District, the national youth quilting contest, School Block Challenge, Quilt Camp for Kids in collaboration with Paducah PBS, and the five day art education festival, Arts - in Action, with five visiting regional university Craft departments.

Contractual Fibers Instructor, Summer 2001, Cheekwood Estate and Gardens, Nashville, Tennessee - 1999-2000.

Designed and instructed the surface designed summer workshop for teens.

Coordinator of Public Programs and Events, Cheekwood Estate and Gardens, Nashville, Tennessee - 1999-2000.

Coordinated and managed programs, budgets and logistics for the estate museum’s Education Department. Including, year-round programs for children and families; Saturday AM, The Grand Re-Opening of Cheekwood Estate, the opening reception of The Art of William Edmondson, Haunted Holiday, and receptions for the bi-monthly contemporary art series, Temporary Contemporary.

PUBLICATIONS

- ONLINE -

  • “The Beautiful Mind of Chawne Kimber,” Modern Monthly, for Modern Quilt Guild, January, 2017.

  • BLOCK, Structures of Warp & Weft, 200+ posts on the making, meaning and metaphors of quilts and quilt culture, 2012-2016.

INVITED TALKS

Nevada STEAM Conference, hosted by Nevada Museum of Art & Desert Research Institute, Reno, 2017, 2018; Confabulation Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2018; Desert Research Institute, GREEN POWER, STEAM Teacher Training, Las Vegas, NV, 2016, 2017; National Art Education Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 2008; Arizona Art Education Association Annual Conference, Sedona, 2007, Flagstaff, AZ, 2008; American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, New York, NY, 2007; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, 2008, Association of Medical Illustrators National Conference, Bozemen, MT, 2007, Indianapolis, IL, 2008; University of Arizona College of Science, Summer Enrichment Program, Tucson, AZ, 2008; Kentucky Association of Family & Consumer Sciences Annual Conference, Louisville, KY, 2001; National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY, 2001.

EXHIBITIONS

Art Not Chocolate, Gallery 2035, Reno, February 11 - March 11, 2023, Reno, NV; 12x12, Sierra Arts Foundation Gallery, October 9 - 26, 2021, Reno, NV; HOME 01, Ruby Green Foundation, Nashville, TN, February 24, 2000; American Flyer, solo exhibit, Virginia Aviation Museum, Richmond, VA, November 2, 1997 - January 25, 1998; Emerging, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA, April 16 - May 9, 1999; 1997 Festival of the Arts, The Fisher Gallery, Alexandria Campus, Bell Atlantic Art Gallery, Richard J. Earnst Community Cultural Center, Annandale Campus, Northern VA Community College.

ACADEMIC HONORS

Outstanding Thesis of the Year, Arts-based Research Group of the American Educational Research Association, 2008. 

Outstanding Leadership Award, Western States, National Art Education Association of Student Chapters, 2008. 

Medici Circle Award, School of Art, University of Arizona, 2007.

The Helen Gross Memorial Award, School of Art, University of Arizona, 2005. 

National Art Education Association, University Student Chapter Coordinator, Western States, 2004-2005.

Outstanding Museum Educator Award, Kentucky Association of Consumer Sciences Association, 2001.

President, Contemporary Crafts Society, 1998-1999.

National Honors Society, 1997-1999.