mei bowyer, MEd is a black indigenous folk, interdisciplinary Arts for All artist-educator-researcher, and Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership doctoral student with a specialization in Urban Education and a certificate in Museum Scholarship and Material Culture (MSMC) at the University of Maryland. Her art and research center critical, creative technologies, such as multisensory art, immersive installation and poetic autoethnography to reimagine the pedagogical functions of black and indigenous space, art and futures.
She is currently a pre-service teacher instructor at UMD, Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) Community Fellow and active member of the Public Humanities Collective, American Educational Research Association (AERA), American Folklore Society (AFS), Black Folklorist Association, Black Women's Studies Association (BWSA), and the Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF).
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. "dis/re/member/ed." [Installation and Workshop]. Arts for All, 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)