Penn State School of Visual Arts - Art Education, Alumni

ALUMNI of the ART EDUCATION PROGRAM

Penn State art education alumni, please send news to jhoffman@psu.edu of your professional accomplishments (e.g., awards, grants, promotions, appointments, publications, exhibitions, or presentations) and other information (e.g., Web site address, or after-graduation reflections on art education) to publish here and in the School of Visual Arts annual alumni newsletter, ArtsWord.

Please join us at a Penn State reception for Art Education and School of Visual Arts alumni and friends of the College of Arts and Architecture. It is held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the National Art Education Association, and hosted by: Dick Durst, Dean, College of Arts and Architecture; Charles Garoian, Director, School of Visual Arts; the Art Education Faculty and the Arts and Architecture/Performing Arts Alumni Society. RSVP to jhoffman@psu.edu or call 814-863-0621.

Mary Stokrocki, Professor of Art at Arizona State University was elected as a NAEA Distinguished Fellow 2002. She won the 2002 USSEA Ziegfeld Award for distinguished national leadership. She is former president of USSEA, the United States Society for Education through Art. She was elected as Vice-President of INSEA, the International Society for Education through Art and is former a former World Councilor for 6 years.Publications: Content & context: Participant observation research in art education since 1990. Translations. Reston: VA: NAEA. Summer 2002. Co-authored with Dr. Mariusz Samoraj (2003), An Ethnographic Exploration of Children’s Drawings of their First Communion in Poland, International Journal of Education and the Arts. Co-Investigator of major NAEA Grant: “A Cross-Site Analysis of Strategies Used by Three Middle School Art Teachers to Impact Student Learning” with Enid Zimmerman, Indiana University to the NAEAF The National Art Education Association Foundation. With Marcia Buckpitt (2002), Computer animation at an Apache middle school: Apache children’s use of computer animation technology. In Y. Gaudelius., & P. Speirs (Eds.). Contemporary issues in art education for elementary educators (pp. 264-274). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. My writing and her teaching.