Penny Huntsman

Penny Huntsman has taught A-Level Art History alongside A-Level Sociology for over 20 years and currently teaches both alongside the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ). She has also taught A-Level Media Studies and Critical Thinking, and GSCE Sociology and Philosophy and Ethics. With a BA in Art History and an MA in Cultural and Critical Theory, she takes a characteristically interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning. She is passionate about outreach and shares AHiS’s championing of the subject’s inclusivity. Penny wrote the first dedicated textbook ‘Thinking About Art’, which was published by the Association for Art History in partnership with Wiley. The book was the fruition of plans the Schools’ Group had hatched years earlier in a bid to make the subject as accessible as its counterparts. In 2016, Penny devised a visual literacy programme for KS2 which she embedded on the taught curriculum at her school. When she is not teaching, or working in outreach, she is consulting for The Superpower of Looking Project, something she describes as her 'proudest contribution to teaching', so far.

HENI Talks: Penny Huntsman: 'Picturing Power: Elizabeth I and Frida Kahlo'