Trisha Barton

        Trisha is a candidate for a Master of Education in Art and Art Education, concentrating in Creative Technology, at Teachers College, Columbia University. She received her Bachelors in the Arts degree in Psychology from  Spelman College, in the Spring of 2016. Her experience in psychology, data collection, marketing, stress-reduction research, maker spaces, and art education allow her to use technology to promote meaningful interactive experiences with art education and artwork, by targeting alternative learning styles, engaging curriculums, advancing social justice, promoting positive self-efficacy and healthy prosocial behavior amongst adolescents and adults. She is currently the Zankel Fellow for the Creative Technology After School Program, which she developed and designed with her co-fellow Avery Forbes. Trisha would like to develop her area of research to include the ways humans use their knowledge to share and to educate, using verbal and non-verbal methods, to enhance interactive experiences. She enjoys and has skills with a variety of art mediums such as sculpture, ceramics painting, physical computing, processing, design and dance. Over the years, she has expanded her desire to use multiple art forms to communicate with  audience in order to spread knowledge on holistic health and meaningful data collection.