PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Lecturer, M.A.T. & M.S.Ed. Art Education | Queens College, CUNY

• Art Gallery Coordinator, Macy Art Gallery | Teachers College

• Thesis advisor, Arts Administration Program | Teachers College

• Instructor, art workshops | local and international audiences

EDUCATION

• Doctoral Candidate, Art Education Teachers College, Columbia University

• MA, Cognitive Science in Education Teachers College, Columbia University

• BA, English Literature cum laude Boston University

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

(upcoming) International Society for Education Through Art (InSEA) World Congress: Unexpected Territories

Olomouc, Czech Republic, July 2025

“Activated: What it means to be passive” (talk)

“Forget what you know: a material exploration” (workshop)

(upcoming) Association of Academic Museums & Galleries (AAMG) Conference: Belonging

Albuquerque, NM, USA, June 2025

“Coming together: A case study on 3 paths to one exhibition” (session)

Conversations Across Cultures Symposium | Art Today: Challenging Times

Teachers College, Columbia University, April 2025

“What is Art Today?” (talk)

European Conference of Creativity & Innovation

Paris, France, October 2024

“Material as a way of thinking” (workshop)

20th Annual Graduate Research in Art Education (GRAE) Conference

Teachers College, Columbia University, October 2024 

“Nag of Materials: A Mixed-Methods Study on Moments of Material Resistance and Their Consequences for Fiber Artists” (talk)

Possibilities Studies Network

Cambridge University, UK, July 2024

“Make Me: How material’s physical properties, provocative qualities, and behavior influence the artist” (talk)

“Forget what you know” (workshop)

International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (ISSCI) Symposium: The Roles of Case Studies in Creativity Research

Online, January 2024

“Case study: Encounterings” (talk)

International Society for Education Through Art (InSEA) World Congress: Fault Lines

Çanakkale, Turkey, September 2023

“Says who? How artists attribute agency” (talk)

Possibilities Studies Network: Cultivating the Possible

Dublin City University, July 2023

“Controlling the narrative of material agency: How do artists attribute causation?” (talk)

Princeton Medieval and Early Modern Studies Graduate Conference

Princeton University, December 2022

“Personally invested: Medieval workshop as archetype of self-relevance fueled learning” (talk)

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Hoyden, J. R. (in press). Discovering Hidden Landscapes: Research as Art. International Visual Journal for Art Education (IMAG), Issue #19: Crossroads

Hoyden, J. R. (in press). Controlling the narrative: How do artists attribute causation? Proceedings of the International Society for Education through Art 37th World Congress, Çanakkale, Turkey.

Hanchett Hanson, M., Eisman, J., & Hoyden, J. R. (2023). Affect, complexity, and the case study method. In, Z. Ivcevic Pringle, J. Hoffman, J. Kaufman, (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of creativity and emotions. Cambridge University Press. 

Hoyden, J. R. (2022). Agitation, Alteration, and Transformation: A Deleuzean knitting adventure. Qualitative Inquiry, 28(6), 741–742.

Hanchett Hanson, M., Amato, A., Durani, A., Hoyden, J. R., Koe, S., Sheagren, E., & Yang, Y. (2021).Creativity and improvised educations: Case studies for understanding impact and implications. Routledge.

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HONORS, GRANTS, AWARDS

Myers Art & Research Grant, Summer 2025

Myers Art Prize, Spring 2025

Handweavers Guild of America Scholarship, Fall 2024

Provost's Grant, Fall 2024

Susan L. Kriegman Scholarship, 2024–2025

Arthur W. Dow Scholarship, 2023 – 2024

Provost's Grant, Fall 2023

Macy Art Gallery Fellow, Teachers College, Columbia University, Fall 2022 – present

Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society for Teaching Excellence in Education (KDP), 2022 – present

PSI CHI, the International Honor Society in Psychology, 2019 – present

RECENT EXHIBITIONS – ARTIST

February-March 2025. Spring Studio Works Exhibition | Macy Art Gallery

January-February 2025. Myers Art Prize Exhibition | Macy Art Gallery

September 2024. Fall Salon Exhibition | Greenpoint Gallery

RECENT EXHIBITIONS – COORDINATOR

2024–2025. Macy Art Gallery Exhibitions

September Primer (curator) | Friends of a Feather: Carolina Rojas | Art & Art Education Faculty Biennial (curator) | Me Rn AAF: Krista Biedenbach | Fall Studio Works | Serendipity: Myers Prize Exhibition | Spring Studio Works | Art Today: Capsules in Time | Student Teachers Capstone | Accidents: Alumni Exhibition | Creative Technologies (curator) | “Mother Earth and the Dust have met. What have they met for?” – Fante Proverb: Yaa Serwaa Janet Rush | MA in Studio Practice Capstone

2023–2024. Macy Art Gallery Exhibitions

Night Clouds Part II: Joy Moser | September Primer (curator) | Like Water for Chocolate: Jessica Alazraki | Liminal Land: Nathaniel Garcia | Bridging Global Art Narratives: The Role of the Ziegfeld Collection (curator) | Studio Works | Sharing: Myers Prize Exhibition | Studio Works | Together: Ways of being with (curator) | The Universe’s String and the Blessed Water: Guillermo P. Lorente Pérez (curator) | Student Teachers Capstone | Creative Technologies | Blue: Kelly Cave | Don’t Act Like You Don’t Know The Name: Smoke School of Art Collective | Scaffold: MA in Studio Practice Capstone

2022–2023. Macy Art Gallery Exhibitions

Faculty Works in Conversation: Aimée Ehrman and Dave Scheinkopf | September Primer (curator) | Artistic Dialogue Across Disciplines Grant (curator) | A Contextual Analysis of Blackness in Popular Visual Culture | Conversations Across Culture: Then & Now (curator) | Studio Works | Rest, Wonder, and Memory: Myers Prize Exhibition | Connectivity: Alumni Exhibition | Faculty Biennial | Charrette: A Correspondence Between Art and Education | Faculty Artistic Research Grant Exhibition | Studio Works | Student Teachers Capstone | Artist in Residence: Trevor Mathison | Creative Technologies (curator) | Esemplastic: MA in Studio Practice

AFFILIATIONS

Rug Hooking Guild of Nova Scotia (RHGNS), 2024 – present

Handweavers Guild of America (HGA), 2024 – present

Association of Academic Museums & Galleries (AAMG), 2023 – present

Serendipity Society, 2023 – present

Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA), 2023 – present

International Society for Education through Art (InSEA), 2022 – present

National Art Education Association (NAEA), 2021 – present

International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (ISSCI), 2020 – present

American Psychology Association (APA): Division 10 Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 2019 – present

The Knitting Guild Association (TKGA), 2016 – present