Arts in Education
Students

Regan Doody has worked in a variety of art-related capacities. After graduating from Wesleyan University with an art history major, she worked as a manager for an art gallery in San Francisco and taught art classes at the Addison Gallery. While studying at HGSE, Regan is involved in a work-study position at the National Arts Learning Collaborative.
Sarah Golden Martin
Sarah Golden Martin attended Kenyon College in Ohio and the National Theatre Institute. A founding member of Orfeo Group (a theater company in Boston) and assistant director for productions with Actors' Shakespeare Project and Boston Theater Works, she is currently working for the Huntington Theater.
Nick Appelbaum, a native New Yorker, comes to HGSE by way of England, where he earned his BA in modern history from Oxford and his MSc in international relations and history from the London School of Economics. Nick has a specific interest in museum education and multidisciplinary education.
AIE Scholarship and Fellowship Recipients
Urban Scholar
Rhea Gibson, a graduate of the local Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, majored in music and sociology at Emory University in Atlanta. She began her career as a Teach for America corps member in a kindergarten classroom in 2003, and has been teaching the violin and cello to third and fifth grade students in Atlanta’s public schools.
Courtney Ross Fellow
Michael Rhee was born in Korea, raised in Hawaii, attended college in New York at Cornell University,and earned his MBA at the University of Hawaii. In 2002, he founded an English academy in Seoul, and has since worked as an affiliate to a design firm, traveling to Berlin on a frequent basis for exhibitions. Michael’s diverse interests and experiences have led him to AIE, where (not surprisingly) he pursues many activities, including membership in ALANA and APA, work on a Field Experience Program project, and an interest in film.
Courtney Ross Fellow
Janet Shih is interested in visual art as a universal symbol system that connects people without the means of written and spoken words. She earned her BA in speech communications from San Francisco State University, and later traveled to the University of Cambridge to study art history. Janet has worked in education as a college admissions counselor, a curator for the National Palace Museum in Taipei, and as an event coordinator for the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Janet plans to focus on curriculum development in art museums during her time at HGSE.
Knox Fellow
James Croft, our resident Shakespeare scholar, studied at Cambridge University in England before joining us here at Harvard. While here, he will be working with the Graduate School of Business choral group and working with students from Codman Academy in the Huntington Theater education department.
AIE Student Involvement
2007-08 AIE Student Profiles
2006-07 AIE Student Profiles
Events and Exhibits
At the Office for the Arts in Education Program, Room 305 Longfellow
Hall, students can find a variety of resources such as:
- lists of arts-related courses throughout the university and lists
of courses at HGSE that lend themselves to arts focusing
- information on possible arts-related field placement sites, internships,
and job opportunities
- guidance on focusing an Arts in Education program
- recommendations for instructors who will support arts-related independent
studies
- selected resources for arts-related research and a collection of past
AIE student courses of study and sample student work on arts-related
topics
- information on arts activities and resources at Harvard and in the
surrounding areas
Arts Resources
The following resources may be of use to students in the program and
others with an interest in arts in education.
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