Jacqueline M. Cofield investigates how artistic practices, cultural institutions, and interdisciplinary pedagogies shape knowledge production. She teaches at Hunter College School of Education (CUNY), serves as a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and is Principal of CulturED Arts Consulting (NYC/NYS M/WBE certified). She is a Fulbright Specialist (2025–2028) and a Gordon Research Affiliate at the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Advanced Study, Teachers College, Columbia University.
Her work spans arts-based research, object-based learning, African diasporic visual culture, and museum pedagogy. She maintains sustained partnerships with leading cultural and educational institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim New York, the New York Public Library, and the New-York Historical Society, where she serves as a Women in the American Story (WAMS) Ambassador. Internationally, she collaborates with partners including UNESCO Headquarters (Paris), the Ministry of Education in Cuba, U.S. embassy and cultural office initiatives in West Africa, and institutions across the region and beyond.
She is the host of Beyond Beauty, a long-form podcast archived by Columbia University Libraries featuring women artists across the African diaspora and Global South, and co-host of Solidarity in Action, a podcast-based research project exploring solidarity across communities of scholar-mothers.
As a Fulbright Specialist, she completed a residency at the University of Lomé, Togo, where she developed digital humanities curriculum and led workshops at the intersection of AI and African cultural memory. A second-generation Fulbright Specialist, her international work reflects a sustained commitment to global, interdisciplinary approaches to education and cultural exchange.
She holds an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University, where her dissertation received three 2026 AERA Outstanding Dissertation Awards, alongside degrees from The City College of New York, the University of Southern California, and New York University.
Jacqueline Cofield’s practice is grounded in translation — not simplification. She moves between Dakar and the Bronx, between Saidiya Hartman and a fourth-grade classroom, between curatorial practice and teacher preparation, holding the intellectual weight of each without flattening it for the other.
The animating question across her work: what does it mean to design a learning experience that treats art as a method of knowing, not a subject to be known?
That question shapes her object-based curricula with preservice teachers at Hunter College; the artist conversations she hosts through Beyond Beauty and Solidarity in Action; the digital humanities workshops developed in Lomé; and the learning environments she co-designs with cultural institutions including the New York Public Library and the New-York Historical Society. She does not choose between rigor and access. She works at their intersection.
The result is a practice that brings cultural institutions, classrooms, and communities into an epistemological relationship — where learners are not audiences for knowledge, but co-producers of it.
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