Jim Stoner Artistry

Jim is an artist who critically and artistically attempts to understand his own experiences as well as the experiences of marginalized people.

• Artist

Jim Stoner is a skilled facilitator, researcher and creative writer as well as a veteran, an award-winning educator, and performance artist. He is founder of edupractices.com and rustyboltpress.com. He is author of the forthcoming book of poems, Iterations of the Boy through RBP.

Jim has had more than 28 years of practical experience teaching and developing programs centered on marginalized and under-prepared students. He led the way in creating a state-of-the-art Bridge program in a major university as well as the resulting support initiatives that improved targeted students’ achievement. He has been awarded grants for a study of the effectiveness of the “stretch” and “cohort” course models which have resulted in substantial retention of “borderline” students.

Jim has worked administrative, advisory, and educational positions throughout his life that have involved work with the mentally ill, children with developmental disabilities, and the elderly. Jim has also effectively managed staffing and retention in these high-turnover jobs, always seeking ethical treatment of those served.

Stoner holds Master degrees in Liberal Studies and Creative Writing. He is a former Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, and has presented intellectual and academic work at many conferences and workshops.

Stoner was a featured poet in The Pacific Review and has published other poems in Cultural Logic, The Awakenings Review, Education Studies, Torrid Literature Journal, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, The Wisconsin Review, Parenthesis Journal, and in the poetry anthology Silent Voices. A book of his poems and artwork, Iterations of the Boy, will be released this February, 2018, by Rusty Bolt Press.

You may see samples of his book and pre-order here:

https://rustyboltpress.com/new-releases

This is what colleagues say about Jim's professional work here

https://www.edupractices.com/category-s/201.htm

Jim writes both critically and artistically in an attempt to understand his own experiences as well as the experiences of marginalized writers, artists, intellectuals, and others. His intention is to publish voices normally drowned out by the noise of those who hold power.

His goal is to help others gain a better understanding of those who have had non-mainstream experiences and to develop tolerance and peaceful relations through artistic and intellectual discourse.

He is most interested in how our society treats the mentally ill, abused children, the imprisoned, the differently-abled; those needing access to quality education as well as those needing access to basic means of survival: in short, those deemed “least” among us.