Celebrating the Collaborative Process

Curriculum Vitae

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Statement

My teaching celebrates the collaborative process of artmaking. I encourage students to work in multiple design areas to understand their role as a production team member. I have consistently created experiential learning opportunities for undergraduate students throughout my career to work as my design assistants at organizations worldwide.

My goal has been to help develop student artists who can engage in different methodologies, philosophies, and practices as a designer by analyzing dramatic texts and historical artifacts. I expect them to construct reasoned arguments about their creative processes and communicate these inferences and conclusions through dramaturgical writing, theatrical performance, or design/technical execution.

Beyond my comprehensive design teaching experience, I have taught throughout the theatre discipline, including creative dramatics, play analysis, dramaturgy, theatre history, period research, freshmen, sophomore and senior seminars, as well as professional aspects courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level.

Throughout any class or experiential learning experience, I create an environment that promotes student artists and scholars who are active members of their community.

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Theatre Production Showcases Interdisciplinary Work

Kirk Domer Teaching Scene Design
Kirk Domer collaborating with graduate student Hernando Claros on a new theatre project.

Staging New Opportunities

Read the complete “BEHIND THE WILL” story that provides viewers an inside look into what drives our faculty’s research, teaching, and creativity in the College of Arts & Letters.

It is absolutely necessary, in so many ways, to continue doing your artwork while you are an art professor. I design constantly.

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Learning Continues Remotely at MSU’s Department of Theatre

Conference Presentation Samples

United States Institute for Theatre Technology: Online and Blended Theatrical Design and Arts-Related Learning Presentation (Kansas City, MO)

IAH 241E: Creative Process – Weeks 1 & 2

IAH 241E: Creative Process - Weeks 1 & 2

IAH 241E: Creative Process – Weeks 3 – 7

IAH 241E: Creative Process - Weeks 3-7

IAH 241E: Creative Process – Unique Creation Project Sample

IAH 241E: Creative Process - Unique Creation

Teaching Awards & Honors

  • College of Arts & Letters Paul Varg Award, 2019
  • Honors College Faculty Mentor of the Year Award, Michigan State University (Nomination), 2013
  • College of Arts & Letters Alumni Award for Innovation and Leadership in Teaching and Learning, 2011
  • MSU-AT&T Instructional Technology Awards Competition (Honorable Mention), 2009
  • MSU Teacher-Scholar Award (Nomination), 2007
  • Senior Class Outstanding Faculty Award, Michigan State University (Nomination), 2006 

Representative Student Projects

Undergraduate Research Initiative Projects
Photograph 51, Assistant Designer Poster by Jordan House

Dear Jack Dear Louise, Assistant Designer by Jordan House


Courses Taught

UNDERGRADUATE:

GRADUATE:

GENERAL EDUCATION / INTEGRATIVE STUDIES IN THE ARTS & HUMANITIES:

Outreach & Engagement Sample

As part of the MSU Department of Theatre’s Senior Seminar class, each student must execute a project linked with the community. The idea is that you take your art to the public.

This video was produced by MSU University Relations.

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Assignment to Design Auditorium Lobby Renovation and Major Donor Costume