Ellen Mueller's Picks

I am an artist, and author (check out my books at my website), and career consultant. I taught art and design courses in higher ed for over ten years, and crafted several unique courses on wide-ranging topics (check out past syllabi). I've also taught a variety of workshops in art and community centers for broad and varied audiences. I showcase some of this wide-ranging research here. 

Some Social Practice
Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts, 2nd Edition
Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook
What We Want Is Free: Critical Exchanges in Recent Art
Social Objects: Essays, Interviews, Projects and Interventions on Socially Engaged Craft
The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011
The Participator in Contemporary Art: Art and Social Relationships
More Art in the Public Eye
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
Participation Is Risky: Approaches to Joint Creative Processes
Arrested Welcome: Hospitality in Contemporary Art
The Practice of Public Art
Art as Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art
Social Justice Art: A Framework for Activist Art Pedagogy
Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017
Walk!
Walkscapes: walking as an aesthetic practice
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
A Field Guide to Ilanding: Scores for Researching Urban Ecologies
Walking Art Practice: Reflections on Socially Engaged Paths​
Walking Networks: The Development of an Artistic Medium
Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers
Walking Sculpture 1967-2015
Walking Bodies: Papers, Provocations, Actions from Walking's New Movements, the Conference
The Society of the Spectacle (Revised)
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
The Invisible Flâneuse?: Gender, Public Space and Visual Culture in Nineteenth Century Paris
Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking
Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine?: The Art of Making Zines and Mini Comics
The Magazine
Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century
Stolen Sharpie Revolution: A DIY Zine Resource
The Riot Grrrl Collection
Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
Thinking with type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students (Revised, Expanded)
DIY: The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture
Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book
How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care
The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
The Artist's Guide to Public Art: How to Find and Win Commissions (Second Edition)
The Aiga Guide to Careers in Graphic and Communication Design
The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist
Thrive!: The Creative's Guidebook to Professional Tenacity
Art/Work - Revised & Updated: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) as You Pursue Your Art Career
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul (Seventh Edition) (Edition, Seventh)
The Artist's Guide to Grant Writing: How to Find Funds and Write Foolproof Proposals for the Visual, Literary, and Performing Artist
Don't Get a Job... Make a Job: How to Make It as a Creative Gradute (in the Fields of Design, Fashion, Architecture, Advertising and More)
A Graphic Design Student's Guide to Freelance: Practice Makes Perfect
101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions (Anniversary)
Legal Guide for the Visual Artist (Revised)
Becoming a Successful Illustrator
Methods and Theories of Art History
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Kristine Stiles)
Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Ways of Seeing
Representation
About Looking
Art in Theory 1900 - 2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Feminism Art Theory: An Anthology 1968 - 2014 (Revised)
Readings for Diversity and Social Justice
Privilege, Power, and Difference
Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction
Postmodernism
A History of Video Art (Revised)
Video/Art: The First Fifty Years
Video Art Theory: A Comparative Approach
Installation and the Moving Image
Video Art (Revised)
Vision Anew: The Lens and Screen Arts
Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art
Memorials of Identity: New Media from the Rubell Family Collection: New Media from the Rubell Family Collection
Resolutions
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016
Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art
Screen/Space: The projected image in contemporary art (UK)
Anonymous Sculptures: Video and Form in Contemporary Art
Video Art Historicized: Traditions and Negotiations
Resolutions 3: Global Networks of Video
Place: An Introduction (Revised)
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
The People, Place, and Space Reader
Belonging: A Culture of Place
The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity
The Nature of Home: Taking Root in a Place
Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity
Place and Placelessness (UK)
Place and Placelessness Revisited
Art & Place: Site-Specific Art of the Americas
Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017
Humanist Geography: An Individual's Search for Meaning
Senses of Place
Nobody's Property: Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010
Performance Now: Live Art for the Twenty-First Century
Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present
Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics
Elements and Principles of 4D Art and Design
Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy
Site-Specific Performance
Black Performance Theory
Local Acts: Community-Based Performance in the United States
The Performances of Sacred Places: Crossing, Breathing, Resisting
Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field
Performance Studies: An Introduction
The Performance Studies Reader
The Ends of Performance
Race and Performance After Repetition
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
Sound Art Revisited
Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art
Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art
Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art
See This Sound: Audiovisuology: A Reader
The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening
The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World (Original)
Remapping Sound Studies
Silence: Lectures and Writings
The Sound Studies Reader
Keywords in Sound
Sound Objects
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts
Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies
Humour: A Very Short Introduction
Comedy: A Very Short Introduction
Concrete Comedy: An Alternative History of Twentieth-Century Comedy
No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity
On Humour
A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms
Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting
Carrying on "irregardless": Humour in Contemporary Northwest Coast Art
Joke-Performance in Africa: Mode, Media and Meaning
Permission to Laugh: Making a Difference in the Developing World
The Comedy Studies Reader
Irony and Sarcasm
The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters
From Diversion to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art
What Comes After Farce: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle