Billie Lee

Billie Lee is an artist, writer, and educator working at the intersection of art, pedagogy, and social change. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from Yale University. Her dissertation, Scenes of Pedagogy: Art and the Politics of Possibility, examines the “promises” of art and pedagogy in enacting institutional critique and possibility. Primarily through ethnographic research in several art and design colleges across the United States, the project tracks activities in the unmaking and remaking of hegemonic institutional spaces of learning in the post-Obama era. Billie’s art practice includes painting, video, and a documentary film project, Moving Home, which premiered at the Hawai’i International Film Festival in 2012. As an educator, she has taught diverse audiences in various settings, including the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, the University of New Haven, Queens Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, and in New York City public schools as a teaching artist. She was also the inaugural Associate Curator of Education at the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture, and Design in Honolulu, Hawaii. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the Hartford Art School.