Hannah W. Wong has over a decade of experience in teaching in museums and higher education settings including the University of Texas, Baylor University, University of Maryland, Austin Community College, and Gordon College.  She also enjoys working with the wider public and regularly creates art adventures for adult learners online as well as in homes, classrooms and museums. Building on a successful series of her live, online art history courses, Art History 101: Intro to the Visual Arts, topical short courses, Meeting Modern Art, and Landscapes of Life, she’s offering Touring Europe: Paris, Florence, and Rome this spring!

Learn more about Dr. Wong’s newest Zoom course, Touring Europe: Paris, Florence, and Rome!

INSTRUCTORSHIPS & FACILITATION

Professional Development Facilitator and Teaching Consultant
Vox Omnibus Consulting, 2019-present

One-Year Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art
Baylor University, 2018-2019

• Introduction to the Visual Arts (2 semesters)

• I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art: Play & Humor in Contemporary Art (seminar)

• Bons Amis: Artistic Circles, Correspondences, and Collaborations in Modern Art (seminar)

Instructor of Record
Austin Community College, 2017-2018

• Introduction to the Visual Arts (2 semesters)

Instructor of Record
University of Texas at Austin, 2013-2015

• Prehistoric to Contemporary Art (2 semesters)

• Renaissance to Modern Art (1 semester)

Sample syllabus (Prehistoric to Contemporary Art survey)

Adjunct Instructor
Gordon College, Wenham, MA, 2003-04

Course: One-year required liberal arts seminar sampling modern rhetoric, literature, and service learning; writing intensive and discussion oriented

• Developed course discussion and activities around college-wide required texts and assignments

• Introduced academic writing and editing processes as well as response journaling. Material ranged from Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country to M. L. King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS

University of Texas (2008-2014)
Departments of Art & Art History and Religious Studies
University of Maryland (2005-2006)
Department of Art History & Archaeology

• American Art Since 1960 (1 semester)

• Religious Visual Culture in the United States (1 semester)

• Prehistoric to Contemporary Art (1 semester)

• Renaissance Through Modern Art Survey (3 semesters)

• Prehistoric to Medieval Art (2 semesters)

Graduate Assistant (2002-2003)
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA

Master Instructor (Fall 1997)
University of Maryland Honors Program

• Responsible for peer mentoring 30 Honors 101 course instructors

• Led training retreat and monthly skill-building meetings

Peer Instructor (Fall 1996 & 1997)
University of Maryland Honors Program

• Honors 101: Requisite class for Honors Program Citation

Museum & Gallery Teaching

BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART

Lecturer & Course Creator (2018-present)

• Developed & taught The Blanton “Grand Tour” Short Course, How to Enjoy Modern and Contemporary Art Short Course, and a summer 2019 lecture series for members.

Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellow (2015-2016)
Prints and Drawings and European Paintings Department

• Presented on recent conservation discoveries from the Blanton collection and chaired two-day Conversations in Conservation Symposium, which included public lectures and a conservation workshop. Symposium explored collaborations between art historians and conservators

• Provided lectures on Old Master paintings for docent training

• Researched and wrote wall text for about 20 objects included in 2017 reinstallation of permanent exhibition space

Austin Contemporary Museum

Lecturer (2011)
Visual Studies Series

• On the topic of humor in contemporary art. “Stranger Things Have Happened: Jack Strange and Humor in Contemporary Art” plus exhibition tour

STAMP UNION GALLERY

Graduate Gallery Coordinator (2004-2005)
University of Maryland, College Park

• Created and ran Walk & Talk, a weekly, lunchtime tour of the gallery

• Provided tours and educational materials for public ranging from elementary-age students to university staff and students

• Curated and gave lecture for Every Day and edited exhibition catalogue

Community Teaching

LOOK BOTH WAYS ART & ART HISTORY COURSE

Founder & Instructor (Summer 2006)
Atlanta, Georgia

• Designed and taught four one-week courses for groups of at-risk youth

• Fundraised to provide the course and materials free of charge to over 50 junior high and high school students of Atlanta

• Organized two trips to the High Museum of Art for about 30 students, providing many their first museum experience