Dr. Melanie L. Buffington
Associate
Professor of Art Education, Virginia Commonwealth University
Dr. Buffington
earned her Ph.D. and M.A. at The Ohio State University. Her current research
interests include: museum education, emerging technologies, culturally
responsive pedagogy, contemporary art, service-learning, and pre-service
teacher preparation.
Lecture at
UICA: The Many Faces of Public Art
This
presentation investigates a range of public art forms including traditional
monuments, contemporary memorials, political works, graffiti, community-based
public works, among others. Working to understand the functions of these
varied forms of public art requires thinking about how they act in the
world. This presentation will address various functions of public art and
how public art can connect to art education.
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February 17, 2011. Dr. Sydney Walker
Professor of
Art Education, The Ohio State University
Walker holds a
doctorate in art education and a MFA in painting. Currently she teaches
graduate and undergraduate courses related to artistic practice and
contemporary theory at Ohio State. Her research into artistic practice has led
to authoring Teaching Meaning in Artmaking (Davis Publications, 2001) as well
as numerous journal articles exploring artistic practice in a contemporary
context. Walker's research interests also include curriculum theory and
practice, serving as a curriculum consultant on a national level and
participating as a director and faculty member for numerous art teacher
curriculum institutes.
Lecture at
UICA: Ideas In The Making
Lecture at UICA: Ideas In The Making
October 20,
2009. Dr. Paul Duncum
Professor of
Art Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lecture at
UICA: New Foundations for Teaching Visual Culture
His
presentation at UICA will attend to consider elements of figurative or
realistic imagery that apply to realistic paintings, photographs and movies;
the idea of seduction through aesthetics as the sensory perception of a wide
range of visual material from paintings to video games, many kinds of gazes as
a subjective way of considering imagery: and many kinds of representation
including stereotypes of class, gender and ethnicity.
November 14, 2007.
Dr. Kevin Tavin
Associate
Professor of Art Education, The Ohio State University
Tavin holds a
BFA, M.Ed., and a Ph.D. in art education, and has taught K-12 and post
secondary courses since 1990.His research focuses on visual culture, critical
pedagogy, cultural studies, and art education.
Lecture at UICA: Seeing Something and Saying Something- Visual Culture Pedagogy in the War of Terror
Lecture at UICA: Seeing Something and Saying Something- Visual Culture Pedagogy in the War of Terror
His
presentation at the UICA will attend to discuss issues of power and knowledge
by examining visual dimensions and pedagogical repercussions of the War of
Terror. Iconographies of threat and prophylaxis are explored, and artistic
responses to forgetting and remembering the War of Terror are considered. His
lecture will conclude with an examination of implications and possible future
directions for art practice and art education in a post-9/11 world.
