Deborah Randolph, PhD
Deborah Randolph, PhD, Principal Researcher and Co-Founder, International Scholars Group, is an independent researcher and museum educator. She has served as Curator of Education at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Associate Curator of Education at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Louisiana. She holds a doctorate in Education from UNC-Chapel Hill and a Master of Arts in Arts Administration from the University of New Orleans. Research interests include qualitative research, research in art museums, artistic practice, museum education, arts integration, museum environmental resilience, arts and social justice, and weaving. As a weaver, Randolph incorporates weaving into arts-based research.
Publications
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Love & Randolph. (2024). An Introductory Guide to Qualitative Research in Art Museums. Routledge.
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Randolph & Morris. (2021). Expression and action for change. In Merited, Carter, and Mitchell (Eds) Art as an Action for Social Change. Brill.
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Randolph & Fisher. (2017). We built an island. In Jung & Love, Systems Thinking in Museums: Theory and Practice. Rowen and Littlefield.
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Grumet, Randolph, & Stanley. (2015). Arts integration: Reunion for a creative curriculum. In Fleming, Bresler & O'Toole (Eds) The Routledge International Handbook of the Arts and Education. Routledge.
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Love & Randolph (2013). Pushing against the water: Artists and Sense of Place museum residency program in New Orleans. In Hanley, Sheppard, Noblit, Barone, Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice: A Way Out of No Way. Routledge.
2024 Conference Presentations
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17th International Conference on the Inclusive Museum: Intersectionality: Museums, Inclusion and SDGs
09.13.2024 -.09.16.2024
Vienna, Austria
Ann Rowson Love, Deborah Randolph, Alice Anderson, Pat Villeneuve, Jennifer Drinkwater
Story, Voice, and Polyvocality: Understanding Intersectionality Through Qualitative Research Design in Art & Cultural Museums
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Art Education Research Institute Annual Symposium
09.19.2024 - 09.21.2024
Book Chat
An Introductory Guide to Qualitative Research in Art Museums
Deborah Randolph, Ann Rowson Love
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Black Mountain College ReVIEWING Conference 15
10.25.2024-10.27.2024
After Black Mountain College: Communities Built in NYC and Santa Fe featuring the artists John Cage, Merce Cunningham, MC Richards, Robert Turner, Cynthia Homire, Jorge Fick and Alice Kagawa Parrot
Deborah Randolph
2024 Past Conference Presentations
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Association of Academic Museums & Galleries Conference
BELONG
06.24. 2024 - 06.26.2024
Session 6.24 5pm - 5:30pm
Virtual
Ann Rowson Love, Deborah Randolph, Pete Hoffecker Mejia
React, Respond, and Innovate: Fostering Belonging Through Qualitative Research Approaches in the Academic Museum
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Association of Arts Administration Educators 45th Annual Conference
INTERSECTIONS AND INNOVATIONS
05.23.2024 - 05.26.2024
San Juan, Puerto Rico
May 25, 2024, 3:30 – 4:30 PM
Ann Rowson Love, Deborah Randolph
Considering Pedagogical Implications for Introducing Qualitative Research Methods in Arts Administration Higher Education Training: Findings from an International Study
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Women Who Create: The Feminine and the Arts
3.23.2024-3.24.2024
London Arts-Based Research Center
Lucy CavendiCh College, Cambridge University, UK
Deborah Randolph
The Feminine in Historic and Contemporary Weaving Exhibitions: Shaping the History of Women in the Arts