Arts in Education

Tuesday, September 23, 2003 1:00 p.m.

For Crying Out Loud: Art Tears, Real Tears, and the Problem of Absolute Music

Peter Kivy

Peter Kivy is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, and past president of the American Society for Aesthetics. He is the author of various articles and books on aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Some of his more recent publications are: The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius (Yale University Press), and New Essays on Musical Understanding (Clarendon Press).

Tuesday, October 7, 2003 1:00 p.m.

Poets of Passion: The Dante Club and the Future of Literary Learning

Matthew Pearl

Matthew Pearl teaches at Harvard College and is the author of the best selling historical mystery novel The Dante Club. In 1998, he won the prestigious Dante Prize from the Dante Society of America for his scholarly work. He is also the editor of the new Modern Library edition of Dante's Inferno, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Dante Club is Pearl's first novel and will be translated into a dozen languages around the world.

See The Dante Club website

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 1:00 p.m.

Responding to the Changing Landscapes of Art and Childhood: A "Systems Approach" to Artistic Development

Anna Kindler

Anna Kindler is Professor and Dean at the School of Creative Arts, Sciences, and Technology at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. A photographer , art educator, and educational researcher, she has written extensively on artistic and aesthetic development. Recent research endeavors include cross-cultural studies with French and Chinese researchers considering the development of attitudes and beliefs about art and the acquisition of art-related skills. She edited the 1997 classic, Child Development in Art.

Tuesday, November 4, 2003 1:00 p.m.

Social Reconstruction in Art Education: Problems and Possibilities

George Geahigan

George Geahigan is Professor of Art and Design and Coordinator of the Art Education Program at Purdue University. He is an expert on art criticism, aesthetic theory's application to art education, curriculum theory and design, and the philosophy of education. He has edited the book Career Education: Representative Programs and Practices (National Art Education Association, 1980) and is the co-author of the book Art Criticism and Education (University of Illinois Press, 1997).

Tuesday, November 25, 2003 1:00 p.m.

Social Justice and Art Education

Elizabeth Garber

Elizabeth Garber is Associate Professor of Art and Art Education at the University of Arizona. Her research and teaching are focused on the ways in which education can address art and social questions. She is widely published and a well-known expert on cultural theory, ecology, feminism, and race. Her recent research addresses craft education and the uses of technology in community and art.

Tuesday, December 9, 2003 1:00 p.m.

Artistry in Educational Research and Other 'Soft' Considerations

Elliot Eisner

Elliot W. Eisner is Lee Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Art at Stanford University. He is a leading expert in Arts Education , Curriculum Studies, and Qualitative Research Methodology. Eisner was originally trained as a painter and has served as the President of the National Art Education Association, the International Society for Education through Art, the American Educational Research Association, and the John Dewey Society. His latest book is The Arts and the Creation of Mind (2002).

Thursday, December 11, 2003 6:00 p.m.

Workshop Series and Open Public Forum

Augusto Boal

One of the world's leading theater artist-activists, Brazilian native Augusto Boal, founder of a movement known as "Theatre of the Oppressed," will conduct an intensive four-day workshop December 7-10 as a part of a residency co-sponsored by Learning From Performers, the American Reperatory Theatre (ART), the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, the Arts in Education Program's John Landrum Bryant Lecture Performance Series, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The workshop will culminate in a forum and conference (open the the public and ticketed through the ART) on Thursday, December 11.

Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:00 p.m.

Poetry and Education

Dana Gioia

Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts Dana Gioia is an internationally-acclaimed poet. His books include Can Poetry Matter? and the award-winning poetry collection Interrogations at Noon . A teacher of writing at several colleges, Gioia founded "Teaching Poetry," a conference dedicated to improving high school teaching of poetry and the West Chester University Conference on Form and Narrative, the nation's largest annual all-poetry writing conference.

See the National Endowment for the Arts website

Dana Gioia's visit is co-sponsored by the Office for the Arts at Harvard.

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 1:00 p.m.

Studio in a School: A Twenty-Six Year Partnership Between Artists and New York City's Public Schools

Agnes Gund and Thomas Cahill

Founded over twenty years ago by Agnes Gund and under the leadership of Executive Director Thomas Cahill, Studio in a School (STUDIO) brings professional artists into public schools, transitional housing facilities, childcare centers, and community organizations to encourage children's creativity and to enrich their lives with the visual arts. Each year STUDIO helps over 30,000 children discover their creativity through drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture.

See the Studio in a School website

Tuesday, March 2, 2004 1:00 p.m.

A Demonstration of Community-Based Learning

The Artists Collective

The Artists Collective is a nationally recognized urban community art center in Hartford, CT. Founded by alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, the Collective's executive director is Dollie McLean. Under the direction of artistic leaders Rufus Foote, Cheryl Smith and Aca Lee Thompson, students and teachers of the Collective perform annually at HGSE and reflect with us on teaching and learning in their inspirational setting beyond school walls. This event will be held in the Gutman Conference Center.

See the Artists Collective website

Tuesday, March 16, 2004 1:00 p.m.

Aesthetic Development: Nurturing Learning; Learning about Growth

Abigail Housen and Philip Yenawine

Cognitive developmental psychologist Abigail Housen and museum educator Philip Yenawine are founding co-directors of the research organization VUE (Visual Understanding in Education). VUE studies and shares applications of Housen and Yenawine's Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), a well known approach to learning through visual art that has been implemented in museums throughout the world. VTS fosters aesthetic development and increases skills in critical thinking and communication.

See the VUE / VTS website

Tuesday, April 6, 2004 1:00 p.m.

The Implications for the Arts in Education of the "No Child Left Behind" Act

Dick Deasy

Dick Deasy is executive director of The Arts Education Partnership (formerly the Goals 2000 Arts Education Partnership), a national coalition of arts, education, business, philanthropic, and government organizations that demonstrates and promotes the essential role of the arts in individual student development and in the improvement of America's schools. Formerly a prize-winning journalist, Deasy has enjoyed successful careers in international cultural affairs and education.

See the Arts Education Partnership website

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:00 p.m.

Outside-In: Funders' Efforts to Transform Arts Teaching in San Francisco Schools

Frances N. Phillips

Frances N. Phillips is senior program officer for arts and humanities at the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, chair of the San Francisco Arts Education Funders Collaborative, and co-editor of Grantmakers in the Arts' READER. She has published numerous reviews, books of poetry, and essays- most recently "Allowance" in The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood- and co-authored The Nonprofit Kit for Dummies.

See the Grantmakers in the Arts website