Art Education
College of Arts and Architecture
School of Visual Arts
Visiting Scholars and Speakers:
Dr. Hsiu-Chu Hsu, faculty of the National Hualien University of Education (NHUE), a visiting scholar in art education at Penn State from mid-December 2007 to mid-March 2008, researched art curricula evaluation, children and youth cognitive processing in relation to art representation, and picture book pedagogy.
Dr. John H. White Jr., professor of art education and crafts at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, was a visiting scholar in art education at Penn State from January to May 2008.
Dr. Stephanie Springgay received an Institute for Arts and Humanities grant to develop and teach a graduate course titled “Curriculum and the Cultural Body”. The grant enabled Dr. Springgay to bring scholars and artists to campus to conduct workshops with the graduate class in addition to giving a public lecture at the Palmer Museum of Art. Visitors included: Aisha Durham and Jillian Baez, whose talk was titled “A Tail of Two Women: Exploring the Contours of Difference in Popular Culture”; Janine Antoni, who spoke about her own artistic practices which blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture. Transforming everyday activities such as eating, bathing, and sleeping into ways of making art, Antoni’s primary tool for making sculpture has always been her own body; and Diane Borsato whose works are often humorous and playfully critical of political and cultural institutions, the military, and works of iconic architecture. She is also interested in social relationships, in works that engage large groups of volunteers or actors, and in enacting discreet interventions in public space.
Ingvild Digranes, a visiting scholar from The Faculty of Art, Design and Drama at Oslo University College (OUC), Oslo, Norway, continued her doctoral research on design art education. During her visit she presented in SoVA courses on craft traditions and art education research in Norway - October 1, 2007 to January 30, 2008
Dr. Venny Nakazibwe, art professor at Makerere University in Uganda, "Appropriation of Olubugo (Bark-cloth) of the Baganda in Contemporary Art Practice” - April 9, 2007
Dr. Huei-Ling Chao (Ph.D. in art education at Penn State, 2000) and Dr. Cheng-Feng Kao (Ph.D. in workforce education and development at Penn State, 2000), both are professors in the Department of Art Education and the Graduate Institute of Visual Art at Taipei Municipal University of Education in Taiwan - August 2006 to August 2007
Chiu-Jhin Chen, Professor of Art at Taipei Municipal University of Education, Taiwan - 2003-2005
"The Visual Cultures of Taiwan: A Web of Photographic Signs"Professor Jeoing-Ae Park from Korea - 2005
Dr. Fawaz Abunayyan, Professor at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia - Spring, 2005
Ching-yeh (Joanne) Hsu from Taiwan - July 2002 to July 2003
Postcolonial Theory and ArtPirkko Pohjakallio from Finland - August 2002 to December 2002
Senior Lecturer, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
Art Education, History of Art EducationDr. Asa G.Hilliard III, October 21, 2002, "No Mystery, No Rocket Science"
Fuller E. Calloway Professor of Urban Education, Georgia State UniversityDr. jan jagodzinski, October 28, 2002, "Youth Culture"
Professor in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, CanadaKoichi Watanabe from Japan - October 2001 to March 2002
Contemporary Art and Painting in America and "DBAE" of Art Education
Art Educators in the Anderson Speaker Series:
Dr. Liora Bresler, professor at the College of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, presented "Liora Bresler, Art Educator," on February 14, 2007
Professor Olivia Gude visited Penn State’s School of Visual Arts April 5–7, 2006, supported by the John M. Anderson Endowment. She is known for her more than twenty years of work in the field of community public art, which has included working with inter-generational groups, teens, elders, and children to create more than thirty large-scale mural and mosaic projects. Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty, participated in her collaborative idea-generating and art-making workshop, “Identify Yourself: Rethinking the Self-Portrait in Art.”
Dr. Dipti Desai, April 23, 2007, “Imagining Justice in a Time of Perpetual War: Notes for the Classroom,” New York University
Dr. Graeme Sullivan, November 4, 2005, "Research Acts in the Visual Arts,"
Teachers College, Columbia UniversityDr. Terry Barrett, September 28, 2004, "The Importance of Interpretation," Ohio State University
Dr. Steve Thunder- McGuire, a story telling performance, Spring 2002, Associate Professor in the School of Art and Art History and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Iowa in Iowa City.
Colloquium
The goal of Art Education 590: Colloquium is to provide an open forum for the discussion of topics related to an overall theme selected each fall. Readings are selected and panel members invited to stimulate the bi-weekly discussions. Graduate students and art education faculty members attend. It is open to the public. For readings, dates, and location, e-mail or call 814-865-6570.
Themes:
2008: Dialogue
2007: Preparing and Participating in Conference Presentations
2006: On Diverse Matters
2005: Graduate Research in Art Education (GRAE)
2004: Visual Culture of Childhood: Child Art After Modernism
2003: How Do We Teach Visual Culture?
2002: Issues of Diversity
2001: Visual Culture
2000: The Relationship Between Contemporary Theory (educational, social, political, aesthetic, etc.) and Practice in Teacher Art Education
1999: Drawing from the Past: Perspectives on Rare Books and Printed Materials in the Visual Arts
1997: Exploring Community: A Dialogue of Solidarity and Disruption
1996: Semiotics for Artists and Art Educators
1994: Inquiry, Innovation, Integration, Interaction, and Interpretation
1993: Women's Issues
1991: Multiculturalism in Art and Education
Penn State's Art Education Program sponsors Saturday art classes for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Classes are taught by advanced art education students in collaboration with art education faculty and graduate teaching assistants. For more information or to request a registration form, call 814-865-6570.
Penn State's Teachers' Institute for Art Educators: The Arts Festival: Visual Culture and Art Education, offered in the second week of July, is a 3-credit graduate-level course designed to give visual arts teachers and elementary and secondary school teachers in other disciplines the opportunity to experience the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts™ on many different levels.