education

2000 Ph.D. Art Education, Stanford University, CA
1995 MA Art Education, Stanford University, CA
1973 BA Studio Art, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Graduate study in Painting and Printmaking, University of Hawaii, Manoa, HI

awards/fellowships

2009 Willson Center Artist-in-Residence at UGA Costa Rica
2006 National Art Education Association, Southeastern Region Higher Education Art
Educator of the Year
2006 Georgia Art Education Association, Higher Education Art Educator of the Year
2003 Manuel Barkan Memorial Award, National Art Education Association
1999 Doctoral Dissertation Fellow of the Getty Education Institute for the Arts
1981 Fellowship in Arts Management, Visual Arts Program, National Endowment for
the Arts, Washington DC

selected publications

2009    Essay review of P. Sameshima, Seeing Red: A Pedagogy of Parallax, Arts and Learning Research Journal, 164- 170.
2008 Arts-Based Research in Education: Foundations for Practice, with Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor. New York: Routledge.
2007 Teaching the 3 C’s: Critical Theory, Critical Thinking, Critique Strategies, with Mary Stewart. Foundations in Art: Theory & Education, http://thinktankarts.typepad.com/.
2007 On the persistence of memory: The legacy of visual African-American stereotypes. Studies in Art Education, 48(3), 323-328.
2005 Teaching qualitative reasoning: Portraits of practice. Phi Delta Kappan 87(1), 18-23.
2005 Generative tensions: Arts-based thinking in education. Essay review of Davis, J.
H. Framing education as art: The octopus has a good day. International Journal of
Education & the Arts, 6 (Review 3), 1-16.
2004 Somatic knowledge and qualitative reasoning: From theory to practice. Journal
of Aesthetic Education 38(4), 80-96.
2002 Bringing accountability to elementary art. Kappa Delta Pi Record, 39(1), 24-28.
2001 Re-visioning NAEP. Studies in Art Education 43 (1), 45-56.
1999 Reasoned perception: Aesthetic knowing in pedagogy and learning. Arts and
Learning Research 15 (1), 35-51.
1998 Why do we teach art today? Conceptions of art education and their justifications.
Studies in Art Education 39 (3), 197-214.

other selected activities

2009-2011 President, Integrative Teaching ThinkTank (ITT). Co-Director, ThinkTank2, 2007; ThinkTank4 2009, and ThinkTank5 2010.
2005-2008 Evaluator, Clarke County School District, Athens , GA, United States Department of Education, No Child Left Behind, Arts in Education Professional Development Grant, Fine Arts Curriculum Renewal
2003-2007 Content Specialist, The Performing Arts Workshop, San Francisco,United States Department of Education, No Child Left Behind, Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination Grant

selected publications by students

2006 Quinn, R.D. The possibility of words. Kappa Delta Phi Record 42(2)
2005 Heid, K. Aesthetic development: A cognitive experience. Art Education, 58(5)
2003 Phillips, L. Nurturing empathy. Art Education, 56(4)

research interests

• Developing and assessing skills in nonsymbolic thought
• Aesthetic theory
• Comparative educational research methodologies with a focus on arts-based research
• Identifying and reporting significant interdisciplinary learning outcomes through
arts instruction with a focus on literacy skills