Department of Art members Hikmet Loe (Visiting Assistant Professor), Alina Lindquist (MFA 2028), and Andre Polidoro (BA Art History and BA Computer Science 2025) presented at the ExplOER Nevada Symposium. Their session, "Beyond Books: Open Education Brings Art History to Life," shared teaching practices and student engagement in the course Art 478/678 "Great Basin Art and Artifacts." Loe discussed how open pedagogical practice is ideal to teach place and creative practices, Lindquist talked about the advantages of open education as a studio artist and a graduate student expanding scholarly content, and Polidoro explained how open pedagogy presents undergraduates a way to “connect the dots” as they discover the breadth and value that is brought to education by centering a region.