Professor Rikki Asher is a renowned artist and educator.
She is teaching at present at Queens College and is involved with the Jewish Studies Program.
She graduated from CUNY Lehman College, with an MFA and from Teachers College at Columbia with an Ed.D. Dr. Asher taught at SUNY New Paltz and is a Teaching Artist at the Museum of Modern Art.
She has exhibited her work in numerous galleries, including the Nora Gallery in Jerusalem.
Research (Selection)Besides writing, I have been active in the following professional, educational, and community activities related to Art Education.
Awarded the Presidents Grant for Innovative Teaching for a mural painting class about immigration entitled The Procession Mural.
Awarded the Queens Council on the Arts Community Arts grant for Scenes of Queens, a series of silk paintings, as part of the funding from the Queens Museum of Art, I will teach an Art Teachers Workshop.
Participant in the Higher Ed. Collaborative with Queens College SEYS faculty and the Lincoln Center Institute.
Outside evaluator, Arts, English, and Global Studies teachers, and Teaching Artists at Francis Lewis High School as part of their Annenberg Project and the Center for Arts Education.
Exhibition of paintings at the Electronic Gallery in Washington, DC.
Presented paper, Nudity in the Art Classroom Community, at the NYS Art Teachers Association, NYC Art Teachers Association conference, and for Parents and Teachers at Francis Lewis High School.
Invited to be Educational Consultant for museum projects at the Queens Museum of Art.
Mural Consultant for the Growing Up in America Mural with High School teachers and students through Rockingham Community College in Rockingham, North Carolina.
The SEYS Art & Education Technology Lab Committee.
The Search Committee for curator of the Turnbach Godwin Museum.
The Evaluation Committee for the Presidential Awards for Innovative Teaching.
Panel member reviewing and evaluating proposals for the PSCS CUNY Research Award Program
Membership: National Art Education Association College Art Association,
New York City and New York State Art Teachers Association.
Curating the first Art/Art Education Faculty Exhibition for the Rosenthal Library at Queens College for September 2000.