Dr. Andrea Allen is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and scholar specializing in social justice art teaching, identity development, and decolonial methodologies in visual arts education and research. Her scholarship has been published in leading art education journals, including Studies in Art Education and the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education. She has presented her work at various state and national conferences and currently serves as Program Chair for the Inquiry in Visual and Performing Arts Education Special Interest Group within the American Educational Research Association.

Andrea has over a decade of teaching experience spanning community arts centers, museums, and K-16 classrooms across Texas, New York, Japan, and New Zealand. Most recently, she served as the Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Art Education at Michigan State University (2024-2026) before joining the Art and Visual Culture Education faculty at the University of Arizona in 2026.

Andrea earned her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in Art Education from the University of Houston in 2023.