Rébecca Bourgault

Rébecca Bourgault is an assistant professor of art and art education at BU’s College of Fine Arts.

An art educator and a visual artist, Rébecca Bourgault received her doctoral degree in 2011 from the Art & Art Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Other degrees include a MFA in sculpture from the University of Calgary and a BFA from Concordia University in Montréal. She has taught art education at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, Teachers College, New York and Brooklyn College/CUNY.

She has also taught sculpture and drawing at the Alberta College of Art & Design, Mount Royal College, and the University of Calgary before coming to New York in 2007. Her installation work has been exhibited nationally in Canada. She has attended art residencies in Québec and the Yukon, studied community engagement in Rio de Janeiro and curated community art exhibitions in New York. Her education research has been presented at NAEA conferences and published for print and electronic scholarly sources. 

Current research interests include socially engaged art, more specifically with intergenerational and older adult communities, cultural studies, critical ethnography, oral history and documentary work as these inform the discipline of art education and education through the arts.