Julie Libersat, M.F.A.

Julie Libersat, Professor of Art, Design & Technology, is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar whose research explores our embodied, social, and cultural relationships to the built environment. Her article ROAM: Walking, Mapping, and Play in Art Education was published in 2015 Studies in Art Education, the publication of the National Art Education Association. This ongoing project and mobile game connects Libersat’s research in spatial theory, locative media technology, and contemporary art practice to provide new connections with art education and mobile pedagogy.

Libersat holds a B.F.A. in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art, an M.A. in Art Education and an M.F.A. in New Media, both from the University of North Texas. In a graduate art history course at UNT named “Quakertown Palimpsest,” Libersat focused on the architectural history of the Fred Douglas School which was established in Quakertown in 1876.

Libersat’s artwork has been exhibited in the US and abroad including shows at the Dallas Contemporary Museum, School 33 in Baltimore, The Center for Art and Culture in France, Currents International New Media Festival, Paseo Taos and Museo de la Cuidad de Mexico. She has received a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, the 2014 CADD FUNd grant and the Velma and Davis Dozier Travel Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art. See more of her work here.