Kimberley D’Adamo
Kimberley D'Adamo is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores how schooling shapes the development of voice.  Her newest body of work, On Campus Intervention: Dr. D's Practical Tools for Quick & Easy School Re-Form, spans sculpture, painting, installation, emerging media and performance. Through these, she upacks and makes visible her personal experiences in schools as both a student and educator, and offers contemporary art as a toolbox for transforming schools in positve ways. Her practice, which bridges art, research, curriculum and pedagogy, offers new approaches to re-thinking teaching and learning in America.

D'Adamo earned her doctorate from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, with an arts-based research dissertation titled Currere as Contemporary Art: Creative Research Tools for Teacher Self-Reflection. This weaving of artwork and theory employs innovative auto-ethnographic methods aimed at helping educators gain self-awareness, to better serve their students and transform their schools.  

Currently, D’Adamo teaches interdisciplinary art methods to pre-service teachers in the College of Education and Human Sciences at UNL.  She also serves as Co-Principal Investigator of the Teaching with Emerging Media Arts Program, a $1.9 million Department of Education-funded research initiative focused on helping teachers integrate art, metacognition, emerging technologies, and culturally relevant pedagogies into their classroom practice.  Her art work and scholarship is aimed to helping others develop their voice as culture creators.


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Does Not Pay Attention In Class  
Mixed media on canvas, 2024



Has Trouble Following Directions
Mixed media on canvas, 2024
Has Trouble Following Directions  
Mixed media on canvas, 2024

Teacher Soft Armor
Speculative design, created with Mid Journey, 2024


The Teacher Chair
Speculative design, created with Mid Journey, 2024


With Permission (Lucero, 2013)  from Sandy Skoglund (working title)  
Re-purposed hunting decoys , 2024


School, Re-Formed
Found object, mixed media sculpture, 2024


We Teach as We Are Taught
Digital collage, 2024



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