Kathryn Shields

Founders-210C
+1 (336) 3162825
shieldsk@guilford.edu

Her research areas include masking, identity, community-engagement, and collaboration in art and pedagogy.

Concentrations in English, Art History, and Communications

Current research on building community through culture, colleagueship, and women as leaders in higher education.
Gateways to Art, co-authored by Debra DeWitte and Ralph Larmann (Thames & Hudson, 2011, revised fourth edition, forthcoming October 2022)
Creative Collaboration in Art Practice, Research, and Pedagogy, ed. By M. Kathryn Shields and Sunny Spillane (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018)
“The Drama of Identity: Masking and Evolving Notions of Self in Contemporary
Photography,” Masquerade: Essays on Tradition and Innovation Worldwide, ed. Deborah Bell
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014), pp. 196-214.
“Carnival Mirrors: The Hermetic World of Music Video, 1980-2008” A History of Visual
Culture: Western Civilization from the 18th to the 21st Century, Jane Kromm and Susan Benforado Bakewell, eds. (Berg Press: 2009), Chapter 25, pp. 346-355.
Entries on “Eliot Porter,” “Masking,” and “Representation and Gender,” for Encyclopedia of
Twentieth-Century Photography (Routledge, 2005).
“Stories These Masks Could Tell: Literary References In the Photographs of Ralph Eugene
Meatyard,” Mosaic: a journal for the Interdisciplinary study of Literature (Dec., 2004).

Initiate

Reflection Seminar 3

Introduction to Visual Art

History of Photography

Modern Art

Contemporary Art

Arts of Africa, Asia, and the Americas

Portraiture and Self-Portraiture

Blue Mind

Creative Work/Critical Play