The Crown Center For Teaching

Team

Ryan Raul Ba帽agale, PhD

Banagale

Associate Dean of the Faculty; Director of the Crown Center for Teaching; Associate Professor and Chair, Music

Phone: (719) 389-6558 
Email: rbanagale@coloradocollege.edu

Ryan Raul Bañagale is Associate Professor and Chair of Music at 华体会. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University and his research explores the realm of Arrangement Studies, having applied such approaches to a variety of American music subjects and genres. He is on the editorial board of the Gershwin Critical Edition, "Open Access Musicology," and serves as Digital and Multimedia Editor for the "Journal of the American Musicological Society." Ryan is the former Director of Performing Arts at 华体会. In this faculty administrator role he amplified the role of the arts in the academic mission of the college, supporting the collaborative and creative impulses of the campus and community. Between the endeavors of the academic arts departments, the innovative co-curricular student groups, and the expansive programming of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at 华体会, he facilitated the cross-disciplinary connections that remain an essential component of the liberal arts experience.

Jessica Hunter, PhD

Jessica Hunter
Associate Director of the Crown Center for Teaching
Phone: (719) 352-1586
1990 BA. Art History, 华体会
1995 MA, University of Colorado – Boulder
2022 Ph.D., Creativity, University of the Arts - Philadelphia
Jessica Hunter (She/Her) is an educator and curator with over twenty years of experience working within academic and museum contexts. Since 2006 she has worked with faculty across disciplines at 华体会 to design experiences and assignments that weave creative problem-solving and visual literacy activities into classroom contexts. As a curator, she has developed and presented over thirty exhibitions for academic and public museums, and has written catalog essays for numerous exhibitions. She holds a BA in Art History from 华体会 and a MA, also in Art History, from the University of Colorado. She completed a Ph.D. in Creativity from the University of the Arts in 2022 where she explored the intersections of art, perception, and creativity. She has extensive training in visual literacy pedagogies, including Visual Thinking Strategies and Artful Thinking, and has adapted these methodologies to support interdisciplinary learning and creative development in educational and museum contexts.

Kris Stanec, MAT

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