Allison V. Rowe, MFA, PhD, joined the University of Iowa in 2021 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art Education and the Program Coordinator for the Art Education program. Rowe has taught art and art education for over fifteen years in formal and community organizations including Centennial College, Youth Arts Exchange, the Dovercourt Boys & Girls Club, and the Aga Khan Museum. Rowe earned her PhD from the University of Illinois in Art Education at Urbana Champaign in 2021 and her MFA in Social Practice from California College of the Arts in 2011. 

She is a practicing socially engaged artist and has shown her work across the United States and Canada at spaces such as the Powerplant Contemporary Art Gallery Toronto, ON, Outhaus, Urbana, IL, NURTUREart in Brooklyn, NY, and La Centrale in Montreal, QC. Rowe’s most recent research project on gallery-supported socially engaged art was supported by the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her research interests include community engaged art education, arts-based research, socially engaged art, and art integration.