Associate Professor of Art Education, Lynn Sanders-Bustle, was just named Higher Education Art Educator of the Year by the Georgia Art Education Association. She will receive her award at the Fall 2019 Georgia Art Education Association State Conference later this year.
The Georgia Art Education Association is a professional organization of art educators in Georgia affiliated with the National Art Education Association. The mission of the Georgia Art Education Association is to advocate for the highest quality visual arts education and provide for the advancement of knowledge through service, leadership, and research.

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. Prior to coming to the University of Georgia, she served as Director of Programs at Greenhill Center for NC Art where she oversaw curatorial and education programs. From 2002 through 2012 she coordinated the Art Education program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 2011, she received the National Higher Education Art Educator of the Year from the National Art Education Association.

She is editor of the book, Image, Inquiry, and Transformative Practice: Engaging Learners in Creative and Critical Inquiry Through Visual Representation published by Peter Lang. Sanders-Bustle has published in professional journals such as the Canadian Review of Art Education, the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, the International Journal of Education and the Arts, and Art Education and presented at the International Arts and Society Conference, the International Society for Education and the Arts Conferences, the American Educational Research Association, the National Art Education Association and the Literacy Research Association.

Sanders-Bustle has received grants supporting the integration of technology, faculty development, public art, and service-learning. Her research focuses on socially engaged art, community-based art education, service-learning, and teacher preparation. Sanders-Bustle is currently Chair and Associate Professor of Art Education at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia.