Adrienne justice

Adrienne Justice is equal parts artist and art educator. She currently works as the Manager of Teen Programs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where she designs and implements educational programs empower Philadelphia’s next generation of artists. Adrienne partners with local teaching artists, Philadelphia schools, and arts organizations to create curriculum for teen education in filmmaking, animation, drawing, painting, sculpture, and museum studies. Previously, she worked as the Community Engagement Manager at The Clay Studio where she oversaw The Claymobile program by coordinating teaching artists and sites such as public schools, older adult centers, and community spaces to bring ceramics education to a vast and diverse audience. In 2021 She received her master's degree in Art Education with an Emphasis on Inclusive Practices from Moore College of Art. Her graduate research focussed on how the crisis teaching practices of teaching artists during COVID-19 shaped the methods and approaches of general education as a whole.

Adrienne has extensive teaching experience with local arts organizations which taught her to consider all students’ abilities, competencies, and personal points of view. Her teaching background includes running three weekly adult sculpture classes for adults who are blind or visually impaired and teaching a digital arts and literacy integration program within a nearby local school district.

As an educator, Adrienne designs curricula with the same thought process she uses to create a body of artwork, making deeply-felt connections that are both conceptual and concrete. Her own art education began in the field of ceramics, with a BFA from Pratt Institute. In her home studio, she explores the comfort and discomfort of domestic spaces through stuffed, stitched, and pierced soft sculpture paired, in installation, with ceramic objects. Her work interrogates the process of aging as it relates to the body and the matriarchal duties of stewardship over domestic objects.