mei bowyer, MEd is an Arts for All, Urban Education doctoral student with a certificate in Museum Scholarship and Material Culture at the University of Maryland. Her art and research center critical, creative technologies to reimagine the material and pedagogical functions of multimodal storytelling.
Curriculum and Instruction (EDCI) Fellow, University of Maryland.
Dean’s Fellow, University of Maryland.
Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) Community Fellow, Cal State Fullerton.
2024. Hands-In-Clay Scholarship, Baltimore Clayworks.
Grants:
2025. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Summer Grant. Georgetown University x Mellon Foundation.
2025. Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium Grant. DEFCON x Mellon Foundation.
2024. Arts for All ArtsAMPlification Graduate Student Research Grant. University of Maryland, College Park.
Projects:
2026. "grounding: a black-indigenous feminist imagination." Black Women Studies Association, virtual symposium. [Confirmed].
2026. "dis/re/member/ed." [Installation]. University of Maryland. [Confirmed].
2025. "the black arts school." [Talk and Roundtable]. Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Georgetown University.
2025. "sounding: dark matter." [Installation and Workshop]. American Folklore Society, Atlanta, GA.
TLPL252: Students, Schooling, and Communities (Instructor, UMCP)
TLPL481: Embracing Diversity in the Classroom Community (Instructor, UMCP)