Education

 MA, Museum Studies, New York University

 BFA, Fiber & Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Work Experience 

ED&I Art Education Consultant, 2020- Present 

Founder of Adding Voices, 2020- Present 

Visual Arts Teacher, Harvard-Westlake School, Los Angeles, CA 2018- Present

Visual Arts Teacher, John Thomas Dye School, Los Angeles, CA 2012-2018

Curator, Dulcinea Art Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA 2009-2015

Selected Publications

wilson, g. j., & Zuñiga-West, F. (2023). Intersectionality for Art Education: A Manifesto for Engaging Homeplace Through Hip-Hop Feminist Arts Praxis, Art Education, 76:1, 14-22, DOI: 10.1080/00043125.2022.2132792

Zuniga-West, F. (2014). Unheard: Voices of women of color in the museum. In J. B. Acuff (Ed.), In Multiculturalism in Art Museums Today. R&L Publishers.

Presentations

Zuñiga-West, F. (2023). Centering Black & Brown Narratives in Contemporary Art for the Lehigh University Art Galleries Free Educator Workshop, Virtual.

Zuñiga-West, F. (2023). Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Visual Arts Classroom: Infusing Black and Chicana Feminist Thought. Interactive presentation for the Lehigh University Art Galleries Reaching & Teaching Diverse Perspectives through Art workshop, Bethlehem, PA 

Coleman, A.C., Zuñiga-West, F. Richardson,O., Beatty, J. (2023). Remembering Black Women Art Educators. Interactive panel session for the Inaugural bell hooks Symposium. Berea College, KY

Wilson, G.J., Zuñiga-West, F (2022). In Conversation with an Editor: A Love Letter to this Bridge Called my Back. Interactive Dialogue for The Adding Voices Conference, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA

Zuñiga-West, F. (2022). Creating Our Own Table: Disrupting Borders through Community-Building with Global Majority Art Educators during Times of Performative EDI. Presentation for 10th Annual Emerging Conversations Symposium( EC2022) The University of Arizona. 

Zuñiga-West, F. (2022). Centering Black and Brown Narratives in Art History. Presentation for the California Art Education Association, Anaheim, CA.

White-Johnson, J., Zuñiga-West, F. (2022). Making, Learning, & Practicing Liberatory Space. Interactive Dialogue for the Adding Voices, Virtual.

Coleman, A.C., Zuñiga-West, F. (2022). Conjuring a Black Feminist Praxis in Art Education. Presentation for the National Art Education Association Conference, New York,NY.

Petal,K., Denneau, E., Khawaji, F., Newbold, S.C., Zuñiga-West, F. (2021). The Future is Now: Imagine the “As Yet.” Interactive Panel discussion for the NAEA Committee of Multiethnic Concerns 50th Anniversary

Zuñiga-West, F. (2021). Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Art Classroom. Interactive presentation for the California Art Education Association, Anaheim, CA. 

Zuñiga-West, F. (2021). Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Arts Classroom. Interactive virtual presentation for Los Angeles County Museum of Art Educator Speaker Series, Virtual. 

Zuñiga-West, F. (2021). Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices: Infusing Black and Chicana Feminist Thought. Interactive Virtual for Kennedy Center Turnaround Art National Network Season of Learning, Virtual. 

Zuñiga-West, F. (2021).Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Art Classroom, Kennedy Center Turnaround Arts Summer Leadership Retreat,Virtual. 

Zuñiga-West, F. (2021). Keynote Speaker for the Connecticut Art Education Association Virtual Conference.

Zuñiga-West, F. (2020). Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Art Classroom. Interactive presentation for the California Art Education Association, Virtual.

Zuñiga-West, F. (2020). Culturally Responsive in the Art Room Webinar, Moore College of Art & Design, Virtual. 

Zuñiga-West, F. (2020). Sustainable Strategies to Decolonizing Your Visual Arts Curriculum. Presentation for the California Art Education Association Virtual Conference.

Zuñiga-West, F. (2020). Culturally Responsive Teaching Art Education. Presentation recorded for the Differentiated Instruction In and Through the Arts Course, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.