Denmead, Tyler

Tyler Denmead is an Assistant Professor at the School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Denmead has spent his career facilitating and researching arts and humanities programs for youth, and his current research examines how youth is/are implicated in creative cities. He is the founder of New Urban Arts, a nationally recognized youth arts collective for high school students and artists based in Providence, Rhode Island. His publications can be read in Visual Arts Research, Art Education, Journal of Arts and Communities, International Journal of Education through Art, and the International Journal of Education and the Arts.