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Nicole Knibb
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Nicole Knibb, BA, Art History (McMaster University), MDes, Strategic Foresight and Innovation (Ontario College of Art and Design University) is the Senior Educator, Academic & Professional Engagement at the McMaster Museum of Art and Assistant Professor in McMaster University’s Department of Family Medicine. Nicole designs education and learning programs that provide visual culture and art museum experiences to complement academic, personal, and professional learning. She is responsible for developing innovative programs for McMaster University’s academic community, most notably The Art of Seeing™ art-based visual literacy course in partnership with the Department of Family Medicine. Beyond the health humanities, Nicole has created design-thinking and futures learning experiences illustrated and influenced by the work of artists and curators to examine the pasts and imagine plausible and desirable futures. Informing her practice is ongoing work and learning to support equity, belonging and collaboration ensuring an anti-racist and anti-oppressive approach to program design. Nicole has been bringing people together with art for over two decades as an art museum educator. Learning in the art gallery is a unique experience where expectations can be positively disrupted and where true learning can happen.
Research areas are derived from OpenAlex topics of their publications.
5 publications.
Convivial Education: An Autoethnography of Integrating Visual Arts and Design Thinking into STEM through Art Museum-Based Education
Knibb NA, Park S, Tolentino R
Convivial Education: An Autoethnography of Integrating Visual Arts and Design Thinking into STEM through Art Museum-Based Education
Park S, Knibb N, Tolentino R
Time, Space, and Imagination: The Art of Seeing at McMaster University
Knibb NA, Zazulak J
Zazulak, J., Montour, A,. Gallant, L., Knibb, N., Cleghorn, L. A Work in Progress: The Importance of Two-Eyed Seeing in Developing an Indigenous Cultural Safety Program. McMaster University, November 2021.
Zazulak J, Gallant L, Cleghorn L
The art of medicine: arts-based training in observation and mindfulness for fostering the empathic response in medical residents
Zazulak J, Sanaee M, Frolic A, Knibb N, Tesluk E, Hughes E, Grierson LEM
Courses taught
2- Undergraduate
Local Explorations
ARTSSCI 4MN1 · last taught 2024
- Undergraduate
The Art of Seeing: Perception and Resilience through Visual Art
SKL 301 · last taught 2019
Roles and appointments
- Senior Education Officer, McMaster Museum of Art
Frequent collaborators
6Joyce Zazulak
Family Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2021
Sean Park
Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2022
Laura Cleghorn
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Andrea Frolic
Family Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Lawrence Grierson
Family Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Lorrie Gallant
Family Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2021
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