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    Linda Hoeptner Poling Headshot

    Linda Hoeptner Poling

    School of Art
    Associate Professor - Art Education
    Campus:
    Kent
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    Email:
    lhoeptne@kent.edu
    Phone:
    330-672-7895
    Fax:
    330-672-4729

    Biography

    Linda Hoeptner Poling, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Art Education at Kent State University and holds a certificate in Gerontology. She is past president of the National Art Education (NAEA), Association Women’s Caucus (now Coalition for Feminisms in Art Education), a Distinguished Fellow for the Ohio Art Education Association (OAEA), a member of the Kent State Brain Health Research Institute, the 2018 OAEA Ohio Art Teacher of the Year, and the 2021 recipient of the NAEA Women’s Caucus Maryl Fletcher De Jong Service Award. She was recognized at Kent State in 2022 with a Distinguished Teaching Award. Hoeptner Poling is a co-editor of the 2021 anthology, National Art Education Association Women’s Caucus Lobby Activism: Feminism(s) + Art Education (Taylor and Francis & NAEA), and is co-editor of Art Education and Creative Aging: Older Adults as Learners, Makers, and Teachers of Art (Routledge & NAEA). She co-authored four editions of the VSA Teacher Resource Guide: A Series of Visual Art Lesson Plans Designed to Engage Students with Disabilities (Kennedy Center) in addition to the Educator Resources for TEXTURES: The History and Art of Black Hair, focusing on equitable and inclusive art curricula for PreK-12. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) work centers Hoeptner Poling’s service and scholarship. She is a member of the Kent State/University of Akron Gerontology Certificate Advisory Council and served as a Provost Faculty Associate for the Division of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at KSU for two years (2016-2018). Hoeptner Poling is also an HERS Institute Alum, class of 2018.

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    PDF icon Linda Hoeptner Poling annotated CV 12.23-1.pdf
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