Biography
Dr. Nicole Romanski has been an art educator for over 25 years and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Art Education at Kutztown University. Nicole enjoys teaching courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level on topics including arts integration, childhood artmaking, leadership, and qualitative research. She is also the coordinator of Kutztown’s acclaimed M.Ed. in Art Education program. Dr. Romanski’s research investigates narrative pedagogy in art education including art making processes and strategies for story-building, both unpacking and restorying personal and collective narratives as a means to find meaning and grow in empathy for self and others. Nicole writes from a constructivist lens where knowledge is constructed through art engagement and investigation as students respond to concepts through their own life experiences and worldviews. Nicole lives with her husband and three children in Reading, Pennsylvania. In her free time she enjoys art, theater, dance, and traveling.