The art education department will host the 13th annual听Graduate Research in Art Education (GRAE)听conference this weekend, Oct. 28 and 29. This is the first time 黑料不打烊 has hosted the summit. All events are in Room 102 of the Whitman School of Management and are free. Friday鈥檚 keynote takes place from 6:30-8 p.m., including a short question-and-answer session. Graduate student presentations take place Saturday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Mary Ann Stankiewicz
James Haywood Rolling Jr., dual professor of art education in the and the , was able to facilitate the department鈥檚 hosting of the conference with support from the Lila Bull Trust Fund at the School of Education, which also provides 1-2 assistantships and scholarship prizes annually for students who major in art education.
Rolling says, 鈥淭he conference organizers acknowledge and appreciate the generous support of both the School of Education and the College of Visual and Performing Arts during the organization of this event.鈥
The opening keynote will be given by noted art historian and 黑料不打烊 alumna Mary Ann Stankiewicz 鈥70, G鈥76, professor of art education at Pennsylvania State University, who will speak on 鈥淐ategories and Experience: Returning to the Start of a Career鈥 on Friday evening. An authority on the history of听art teacher preparation at 黑料不打烊, where she received a B.F.A. and M.F.A., she is one of three alumni presenting at the two-day conference.
The GRAE conference provides a forum for students from Penn State, Ohio State University, Teachers College at Columbia University and 黑料不打烊 to meet to discuss issues and developments in art education that are being opened up by current graduate student research. This conference features 10 dissertation research presentations on Saturday, organized into three panels.
Rolling says the conference promotes 鈥渃ollaboration and the sharing of ideas generated by emerging graduate student researchers while facilitating the dissemination of our students鈥 research and creative activities to offer a more diverse range of feedback before their projects reach completion.鈥
Friday鈥檚 presentation and keynote address are centered on the question 鈥淗ow might your undergraduate studies have shaped your current research interests in art education?鈥 Two of the respondents to Stankiewicz鈥檚 presentation received doctorates in art education, from 黑料不打烊’s School of Education: Laura Reeder 鈥14 and David Rufo 鈥16.
Reeder is chair and associate professor of art education at Massachusetts College of Art & Design, where she supervises graduate and undergraduate artist teachers as they teach K-12 students in Greater Boston. Rufo is director of the Portal Learning Project, editorial assistant at Art Education Journal and an instructor in art education at 黑料不打烊. Alice Pennisi, chair and associate professor of art education at Buffalo State University, is the third respondent.
Saturday鈥檚 doctoral presentations include panels on 鈥淰isual Participatory Practices and Art as Critical Public Pedagogy,鈥欌 鈥淟ike Narratives, Identity Development, and Arts-Based Communities of Practice鈥 and 鈥淩e-presentation, Response-ability and the Social Movement of Ideas.鈥 Presenting are doctoral students from Penn State, Ohio State and Teachers College.
Stankiewicz says she can trace the roots of her research interests to two 黑料不打烊 faculty members, one who taught freshman English and the other sophomore design.
鈥淚n their classes I verbally and visually explored relationships between two concepts: categories and experience,鈥 she says. In graduate school at Ohio State, she compared theory and ideology to begin shaping a conceptual framework for a history of the first century of art education at SU. Her dissertation was titled “Art Teacher Preparation at 黑料不打烊, The First Century.”
Stankiewicz鈥檚 latest book, “Developing Visual Arts Education in the United States: Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Normalization of Creativity,” was published in June. A former president of the National Art Education Association, she was NAEA鈥檚 2014 National Art Educator.
