Teaching, Mentorship, & Student Engagement
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Dada Poetry Workshops
Guided by instructions written by Tristan Tzara (1920), “To Make a Dadaist Poem”, Fitterer uses project-based learning and Dadaist principles to engage community audiences. Through her workshops, participants create poetry rooted in a common theme while also incorporating chance and spontaneity to allow for an individualized message, memory, or subconscious to reveal itself.
Fitterer has taught Dada Poetry workshops for partners such as the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Alfred University, Explore the Arts, National Council of Arts Administrators, Open AIR, and Wave Pool.
Art Academy of Cincinnati, 2019-present
Social Practice in the Arts + Social Issues in Arts Education
Undergraduate and Graduate level courses on developing a socially engaged art practices.
Senior Pathways: Community Practice
Senior undergraduate level mentorship for students with elected interest in producing artistic outcomes that are socially engaged.
Visual, Cultural, and Communication Issues
Graduate level course analyzing visual and critical thinking strategies as they relate to students’ practice and approaches in art education.
Ideation
First year undergraduate course building students’ resilience to expand their methods for generating ideas, for working in groups, problem solving, and see their creative ideas through.
Discovery
First year undergraduate course supporting research and outreach strategies for students’ to expand their influences.
Radio AAC
A founding member of the Art Academy of Cincinnati’s college radio station, Radio AAC.
Owning Your Own Voice at Talbert House, 2023
In partnership with Owning Your Own Voice, Talbert House, and Wave Pool Gallery, I served as a Resident Artist creating projects and lessons that complimented the Owning Your Own Voice curriculum.
Throughout the Residency, I worked with adult students experiencing homelessness and substance abuse recovery. We used studio-based learning to support self-expression and storytelling through art.
Projects like Dada poems, writing postcards to our pain, and making pocket-sized tokens of strength taught students new ways art could be part of a healing process.