Faculty and Grad Student Awarded Willson Center Public Impact Grants

Congratulations to Associate Professor Lynn Sanders-Bustle and Assistant Professor James Enos– recent recipients of Willson Center for Arts and Humanities Public Impact Grants. The grants support faculty in the organization of campus conferences, exhibitions, and performances that showcase humanities and the arts research in a broad context. The Willson Center Public Impact Grant is designed to offer interaction between national and international scholars and UGA faculty, students and the community.

Associate Professor of Art Education Lynn Sanders-Bustle collaborated with Christina Hanawalt, Assistant Professor of Art Education, and Lisa Novak, Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education. Their proposal is a Community Art School (CAS) and Youth-Led Social Practice Program (YSPP) at the Athenaeum. Their proposed programs will provide art experiences for the children and youth in Athens and encourage experimental and innovative practices.

Lynn Sanders-Bustle holds an undergraduate and graduate degree in Art Education from East Carolina and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Virginia Tech. She has taught art at all levels of the PK-12 public school spectrum. Her research focuses on socially engaged art, community-based art education, service-learning, and teacher preparation.

Christina Hanawalt earned a B.S. in Art Education from The Pennsylvania State University, after which she taught high school art in Fairfax County Public Schools in Northern Virginia. While teaching, Christina earned her M.A. in Art Education from the Maryland Institute College of Art. After moving back to Pennsylvania, Christina taught introductory art history and art appreciation courses at several colleges and universities. In 2016, Christina earned her PhD in Art Education with a minor in Curriculum and Instruction from The Pennsylvania State University. Christina’s doctoral research examined the experiences of new art teachers using a theory of collage as critical practice as a framework for generating new understandings of what it means to be an art teacher in contemporary public schools, especially given their entanglement in the widespread audit and standardization culture of education.

Previously based in London, England, and Vancouver, Canada, Lisa Novak is a Vienna-born designer and educator, whose research and work focuses on self-organized art education, youth engagement in art and social practice, spatial interventions, participatory pedagogies, and creative dissent. From 2015 to 2018, she taught across foundation, design studios, and critical studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and was a core faculty of Simon Fraser University’s experimental Semester in Dialogue at CityStudio Vancouver (Fall 2017). She has led workshops, youth arts intensives, and numerous experiments in public pedagogies with institutions including the Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver, the Vancouver School Board, UNIT PITT Projects, the School for Eventual Vacancy, the City of Vancouver, Temporary Investments, the University of Georgia, and communities across Canada and the United States. She currently is a doctoral student in art education at the Lamar Dodd School of Art in Athens, Georgia, and was appointed Co-Chair for K-12 Educational Programming at the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art in early 2020.

Assistant Professor James Enos collaborated with Stephen Ramos in the College of Environment + Design. The grant will support creative programming and a research summit to explore the port city as a platform furthering global cultural dialog. The project “Port Futures and Social Logistics” will establish an interdisciplinary direction for the summit to host dialog surrounding crises of climate and inequality exposed by extraction, supply chains, and ports.

James A. Enos is an Assistant Professor of Art and Chair of Studio Core. His research engages issues of process, architecture, and social artist practice in an effort to understand how public culture responds to change. Enos is a recipient of the 2013 San Diego Art Prize, and has served as artist, director, and founder for several public projects including The Periscope Project, Drone Readymade, Exploring Engagement, Port Journeys, HyperCultural Passengers, WeTrees and Social Logistics.