Educator

M. G. Maloney designed and taught courses at the University of Redlands in the College of Arts & Sciences, Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, 2014-2021.

• Riot GRRRL: Music & Zines – spring 2021 (online)
  Developed this post-punk feminist and queer interdisciplinary dive into the 1990s “Riot Grrrl Revolution” (Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front) through the study of books, zines, sound recordings, oral histories, archives, and videos. Experimental arts practice in zine creation, production, and multi-media presentations.

• Community Organizing – offered every year, 2015-2021 (online, in-person)
  Strengthened syllabus to include an examination of social change movements through young adult literature. This collaborative course produced the University of Redlands Johnston Center’s first year orientation week with community rooted programming. Students gained practical experience in teamwork, project planning, grassroots marketing, self-publishing and small group facilitation.
  
• G.Y.S.T. The Class – offered every semester, 2014-2019
   G.Y.S.T. (Get Your Self Together). Transformed course from lecture-style to hands-on workshops focused on increasing information literacy, critical thinking and self-care skills. Consensus syllabus-building with students took place the first day of class and included a three-week creative process unit each semester: Art is a Way of Knowing (Pat B. Allen) inspired visual art workshops; political comedy writing based on local newspaper articles.
  
• DIY Art Projects – fall 2018
  Independently created this “do it yourself” art course. The course structure included weekly group meetings and individual one-on-one sessions. This structure enabled students to develop a supportive creative arts community and regular art-making practice. Methods used: text-based discussions, reflective writing, communal art-making, collaborative independent publishing (read: zines), upcycled art materials, arts and crafts tutorials by students and instructor, mini-lectures on artivism and contemporary independent music scenes. Field trips to: local thrift stores and Black Lives Matter co-founder, Patrice Cullors’ lecture.

• Directed Study: The Book – May 2018
  Co-created and co-taught undergraduate directed study, The Book with visiting artist, Maureen Forys. Developed as process-oriented and pre-professional for students interested in archival work and publishing. Students worked as a team to advance a deadline-driven publication, documented their own workflow and collaboratively developed the design brief for Snapshot/50: The Johnston Community 1969-2019. (Ebhon Press, 2019), edited by Leslie Brody, Maureen Forys, M. G. Maloney, Alisa Slaughter.
  
• Archiving the Experiment – spring 2017
  Co-created undergraduate course, Archiving the Experiment: Johnston Stories and Objects with University of Redlands archivist, Michele Nielsen. This course served as an introduction to archival processes including accession record writing and primary source research in the context of larger themes in 20^th Century histories through a lens of race, feminist and queer theories. Classroom pedagogy rooted in teaching non-oppressive oral history techniques and a community archiving practice. This four-unit discussion-based and hands-on seminar offered: interpersonal communication techniques, documentation ethics and the professional methods of collecting, interpreting, and presenting stories gathered through oral history interviews.