Selected Publications
Writing provides a space to investigate, reflect upon, and share ideas about creativity, learning, artistic inquiry, and human connection. The publications below represent selected scholarly and professional contributions spanning music education, creativity studies, arts-based research, and community engagement.
Featured Publication
Connecting Experience to Understanding and Possibility via Creativity:
The Power of Creative Thinking: Identifying and Solving Problems in Business,
Drawing on arts-based and narrative inquiry, this chapter explores how
children make meaning from new experiences through curiosity, storytelling,
and creative expression. The study illustrates how creativity helps connect
experience to understanding while opening pathways toward future learning
and possibility.
Book Chapters
Connecting Experience to Understanding and Possibility via Creativity:
Composing with Children: Cultivating Creativity, Connections, and Community (2020)
Examines music composition as a collaborative and inquiry-based practice, illustrating how children develop creative confidence, meaningful relationships, and a sense of belonging through shared artistic experiences.
Peer-Reviewed Journals & Proceedings
Orchestrating Creativity: An Instrumental Approach (2019)
International Journal of Knowledge, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Volume 7, No. 2, pp. 22—40
Using the orchestra as a model for creative work, this article examines how diverse talents, perspectives, and forms of expertise interact to generate innovation. Musical instruments, ensemble performance, and creative leadership serve as metaphors for building environments where both individual and collaborative creativity can flourish.
A Cellist's View of Creativity (2019)
Research Papers on Knowledge, Innovation, and Enterprise, Volume VII, pp. 35—46
Through the perspective of a professional cellist, this article reflects on creativity as a practice of growth, expression, and collaboration. Drawing on the craft of music-making and the unique characteristics of the cello, it explores how individuals develop creative confidence, discover their voice, and contribute to a larger creative whole.
Dissertation & Research
Cultivating creativity: An a/r/tographic excavation
Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Education, Indiana University, 2025
A/r/tography serves as the foundation for this inquiry into creativity, identity, and becoming. Through the interconnected perspectives of artist, researcher, and teacher, the study explores how creativity is cultivated through relationships, reflection, artistic practice, and lived experience.
Full dissertation available upon request.
Professional Publications
Kids Compose! (2008)
Kansas Music Revue, 72 (4), 35
Stages: Community musical theatre for children (2008)
Current Research & Inquiry
Current areas of inquiry include:
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Creativity cultivation
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A/r/tography and arts-based inquiry
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Creative identity
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Play and learning
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Music composition with children
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Interdisciplinary creativity
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Community-engaged creative practice
