Teaching Practice
Kate Farrington, PhD, teaches broadly in the Humanities, specializing in philosophy, contemporary art theory and practice, and environmental ethics. She has taught at numerous institutions in the greater Boston area, including Emerson College, Montserrat College of Art, Endicott College, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She has presented public lectures, workshops, and papers across the country.
Workshops and Public Talks
2024 “Plant Card Reading Workshop,” with Dr. Samantha Jones, Dr. Ana Fernandez Miranda Texidor, Dr. Maria Patricia Tinajero, and Dr. Kate Farrington, in conjunction with the solo show, Samantha Jones, “Delirious Creatures,” Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Bruno Latour Memorial Lecture: “Coming Down to Earth with Bruno Latour: Collaborations Between Art & Science,” Paul M. Scott Library, Montserrat College of Art,”, Beverly, MA
2019 “Bauhaus Then & Now, Connecting 100 Years of Design History to Today,” workshop at MAEA (Massachusetts Art Educators Association) Conference 2019: New Perspectives in Art Education,” Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, with Jan Schultz
2019 “Discover Bauhaus Workshop,” brought Bauhaus Design workshop to Montserrat College of Art as part of Germany/America Friendship Year, sponsored by the Goethe Institute, Washington, D.C.
2019 “Threeing: Using Art and Creativity to Build Stronger Teams in Entrepreneurship,” Art & Impact Workshop, Adventure 2019, Seoul, South Korea, sponsored by Lighthouse
2019 “Dialogue Workshop around Gender,” a dialogue workshop with artist Jess Dugan, in conjunction with the exhibition, Jess Dugan: Every Breath We Drew, January 14 to March 16, 2019, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, MA, with Dr. Lauren Barthold
2018 “Painting Peace: A Conversation with Kaz Tanahashi and Joan Amaral at the Cabot, moderated by Kate Farrington,” The Cabot Theater, Beverly, MA
2018 “Peace Workshop,” as part of “Painting Peace: A Week in Beverly with Kaz Tanahashi,” Montserrat College of Art, with Kaz Tanahashi
2018 “The Gramsci Debate,” Cocktail Conversation with Maggie Cavallo and Kate Farrington, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2018 “We are the Beast, conversation in philosophy with John Preus and Kate Farrington,” moderated by Leonie Bradbury, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Guest Lectures
2024 "Place-as-Medium," Emerson College, for class on Contemporary Art, taught by Dr. Leonie Bradbury, Boston, MA
2022 “dOCUMENTA (13) and documenta fifteen: a critical assessment,” Boston University, Program in Curatorial Studies, for class Curating Contemporary Art, taught by Dr. Lynn Cooney, Boston University, Beverly, MA
2019 “Cultivating Creativity,” invited speaker, Art & Impact Workshop, Adventure 2019, Seoul, South Korea, sponsored by Lighthouse
Conference Papers/Panel Presentations
2024 “Time Travel and the One Hotel,” panel presentation for “The Butterfly Effect,” Toast to an Ethos of Care Symposium, New York, NY
2023 “Searching for Home in the Song of the Whale,” conference paper, 16th Pacific Association of the Continental Tradition (PACT) Conference, Seattle University, Seattle, WA
2022 “Acoustic Imprints: Sounds of Silence in Contemporary Art,” conference paper, Pacific Association of the Continental Tradition (PACT), University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2021 “What Contemporary Art can show us about the New Hybrid Reality,” panel for Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT) (online)
2020 “Art and Philosophy in the time of Covid-19,” panel for Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT) (online)
2019 “The World at our Fingertips in the Best Possible Way: A Virtual Tour of the Venice Biennale,” panel presentation for MAEA (Massachusetts Art Educators Association) Conference 2019: New Perspectives in Art Education, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2016 “Hospitality of Place: a Heideggarian look at the space of art in dOCUMENTA (13), the Sitka Institute, Sitka, AL
2015 “‘Place’ through a Feast of the Five Senses: a philosophical consideration of The Cooperative Women of the Western Sahara and Robin Kahn’s 2012 art project for dOCUMENTA (13): Dining in Refugee Camps: The Art of Sahrawi Cooking, conference paper, Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), Seattle University, Seattle, WA
2014 “Alfredo Jaar’s Dear Markus Project in Finland: A Narrative of Community in Letters,” conference paper, Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
2013 “The One Hotel and the Aesthetics of Place at dOCUMENTA (13),” in panel: The Rise of the Artist-Curator, 102nd CAA Conference, Chicago, IL
2013 “Place,” panel moderator, Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2013 “Paintings as Chorus: New Boundaries for the City in the Art of Franz Ackermann,” IDSVA New York Seminar, New York, NY
2012 “The Idea of the Beautiful As Such in Hegel’s Aesthetics,” IDSVA Kant/Hegel Seminar, Berlin, Germany
2012 “The Philosophy of Transexperience in Chen Zhen’s The Opening of a Closed Center (1999),” IDSVA Kant/Hegel Seminar, Berlin, Germany
2012 “Failure of Aesthetics in the 7th Berlin Biennial,” conference paper, Activist Art Conference, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2012 “Possibilities for Reevaluating Beauty in Form,” IDSVA New York Seminar, New York, NY
2006 “The Curious Life of an Eighteenth-Century Chinese Painting Scroll,” Harvard University ALM Thesis Forum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
COURSES TAUGHT
2023-2024 Emerson College, Boston, MA
“Environmental Ethics”
“Introduction to Visual Arts: A Global View”
2015-2023 Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
“Facing Climate Change Together: Collaborations between Art & Science”
“Senior Studio Arts Seminar: Critical Theory”
“Aesthetics & Criticism”
“Eastern Philosophies”
“International Biennial Art: A Virtual Tour”
“Introduction to Socially Engaged Art (SEA) Practice: Open Art Schools”
“Circa 1799: World History Through the Streets of Beverly/Salem”
“Art of Asia and the Pacific”
“Crossing Water: A Seminar in Socially Engaged Art (SEA) Practice”
“Zen Deep Dive”
“Herd Mentality: A Seminar at the Intersections of Art, Philosophy & Politics”
“Art History: Modern Developments”
“Humanities I”
“Humanities II”
2020-2023 Endicott College, Beverly, MA
“Introduction to Philosophy”
“Philosophy and the Arts”
2020 Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
“Introduction to Contemporary Art & Theory”
2016 University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Lowell, MA
“Asian Art History”
TEACHING ASSISTANT & RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS
2014-2016 Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) USA & Europe (TA)
“Towards an Ethico-Aesthetics,” TA, taught by Dr. Sylvère Lotringer and Dr. George Smith
“Contemporary Readings,” TA, taught by Dr. Howard Caygill
“The Subject and Object of Art,” TA, taught by Dr. Christopher Yates
2008 Harvard University, Extension Studies, Cambridge, MA (RA)
“History of Boston Architecture,” RA, taught by Alexander von Hoffman
