BILLIE LEE IS AN ARTIST, EDUCATOR, AND WRITER WORKING AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART, PEDAGOGY, AND SOCIAL CHANGE.
Billie’s art practice includes painting, video, and a documentary film project, Moving Home, which premiered at the Hawai‘i International Film Festival in 2012. Her visual work examines themes of diaspora, somatics, ritual, and socio-political entanglements. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, an MFA from Yale University, and a PhD in American Studies from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
As an educator, she has taught diverse audiences in a variety of settings, including the University of New Mexico, the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, the University of New Haven, Queens Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, and in New York City public schools as a teaching artist. She was also the inaugural Associate Curator of Education at the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture, and Design in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the Hartford Art School.
As a writer, she gravitates toward topics where the personal and the political intersect, which often touches on art and activism, critical and regenerative pedagogy, and minoritarian politics. She is working on a book project titled Scenes of Pedagogy: Art and the Politics of Possibility that examines the “promises” of art and pedagogy in enacting institutional critique and possibility.
She can be contacted at lee[dot]billie[at]gmail.com