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C O L L E G E O F F I N E A R T S | F L O R I D A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y | 2019

CONTINUED FOCUS AND NEW BEGINNINGS: your interest. We are always seeking ways to engage our alumni in departmental happenings. New this year is a spread of noteworthy accomplishments in research, contracts, and awards achieved by faculty and students throughout the year. Indeed, in 2019 the department has been tremendously busy.

Coming up this year on February 13 and 14, Dr. Nisha Sajnani will present a lecture and workshop on, “The Art of Courage.” In addition, we have two special opportunities for alumni to participate. We plan to re-brand the department with a new name that more accurately reflects the diversity of programs offered within the department. Please keep a look out for an opportunity to vote on the department’s new name.

In addition, on February 3, 2020 the department will launch its annual giving campaign $25 in 25 days.

We’re asking all of our alumni, faculty, and friends to give at least $25 to support extraordinary educational experiences for our students. In closing, I invite you to join us in continuing to make the department a place that offers transformative educational experiences for students. Go Noles!!

After rising to #18 among Public Universities, the environment on campus is one filled with possibilities. This is true for the Department of Art Education, too, as we continue our stride toward realizing our vision of developing a global identity as a leader in social justice through the arts. The department’s faculty and students continuously demonstrate their commitment to this vision in their research, teaching, and service.

In this issue of our newsletter, you will find stories about the department’s activities this calendar year. These stories include an article about our new Visiting Assistant Professor, Dr. Amber Ward who comes to us from Cal State, Sacramento, as well as feature stories about two major departmental events: Dr. Amber Johnson’s workshop, “Bringing Our Whole Selves to Work” funded by Vincent V. & Agatha Thursby, and an inaugural panel featuring distinguished alumni from all four of the programs.

By the way, if you’re an alum interested in serving on this panel in the future, please let us know of

Antonio Cuyler, Ph.D.

Interim Chair, Department of Art Education Associate Professor of Arts Administration, MA Program Coordinator email: acuyler@fsu.edu

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NEW FACULTY: DR. AMBER WARD The Department of Art Education and the Graduate Art Education Program welcomes Dr. Amber Ward to Florida State University and the city of Tallahassee. The Art Education program places emphasis on the value of art as a catalyst for social change to promote both individual development and to enrich the world around us.

enjoys the flexibility of online teaching, as well as the opportunity to reach students with new technology.

In addition to teaching, Dr. Ward also hopes to work with other faculty members to strengthen the online Graduate Art Education Program by taking the first steps toward creating a more regional, and eventually national and international, presence of FSU’s online Graduate Art Education Program.

Additionally, during her visiting professorship within the Department of Art Education, Dr. Ward is pursuing collaborative research that uses creative qualitative methodologies to advance equity. For example, she is collaborating with FIU assistant professor Becky Christ on a research inquiry into sphering and braiding as theory, as well as our impact on the environment. In February, she plans to install a solo interactive art exhibition in the William Johnston Building Atrium Gallery, focusing on gender roles and equity by gathering stories from members of the FSU community regarding how race, religion, family, and social media have informed their expressions of gender.

Dr. Amber Ward has an extensive repertoire of professional experience in art education. She received her BFA in Fibers from Colorado State University, her MAAE from Maryland Institute College of Art, and her Ph.D. from University of Missouri. Dr. Ward spent twelve years in K-12 art education. Part of her responsibilities included developing online art curriculum for high school students. She joins us from California State University, Sacramento, where she was an assistant professor of art education and the Credential Advisor for the PreCredential Program.

Dr. Ward’s other research areas include cultural and critical theories, social justice art education, and contemporary art. Her art practice focuses on feminist themes through the use of fibers, sculpture, and instillation work.

As a visiting professor within the department, Dr. Ward teaches online master’s level courses, including Program Development and Art for Life. Art for Life is a class based on the book Art for Life: Authentic Instruction in Art by Dr. Tom Anderson and Dr. Melody Milbrandt. This course is unique becaue it focuses on honoring the sense of self, sense of place, and sense of community in art education. She reports that she

Dr. Ward is pleased to join the students and faculty in the Department of Art Education and the Art Education Program at FSU for the 2019-2020 academic year.

DEPARTMENTAL HAPPENINGS Spring 2019 - “Bringing Our Whole Selves to Work” Lecture & Workshop with Dr. Amber Johnson

and Social Justice at Saint Louis University and the creator of The Justice Fleet™, a mobile justice museum that interrogates radical forgiveness. Dr. Johnson explores the language, exigency, sound, and aesthetics of various social movements. Their research and activism focus on performances of identity, protest, and social justice in digital and lived spaces. As a polymath, their mixedmedia artistry involves working with metals, recycled and

On April 12-13 of the Spring 2019 semester, scholar, artist, and activist, Dr. Amber Johnson, hosted a two-day workshop titled “Bringing our Whole Selves to Work” for the FSU Department of Art Education. Dr. Amber Johnson is an award-winning Associate Professor of Communication

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reclaimed goods, photography, poetry, percussion, and paint to interrogate systems of oppression.

consider the ways in which these aspects of the self were connected or not. Participants were invited to view each other’s work to better understand the experience and the workshop culminated with a performance piece created by small groups of participants as a way to process and synthesize the content of the workshop.

In Spring 2020, the Department will host Dr. Nisha Sajnani for a two-day lecture and workshop on Response/Ability and the Art of Courage. The lecture will offer questions and challenges that arise in the attempt to express the art of courage in personal and professional practice. The workshop invites artists across disciplines to reflect on the art of courage in their own lives and professional practice. Dr. Sajnani is the Director of the Drama Therapy Program and the Theatre & Health Lab at New York University.

FSU Art Ed students and faculty participate in an art making exercise

On the first day of the workshop, Dr. Johnson hosted a Q&A session regarding their use of art education as activism in St. Louis. Topics of discussion included Dr. Johnson’s Justice Fleet™, an interactive pop-up art exhibits housed within three box trucks. One truck focuses on the concept of radical forgiveness, which explores the notion of letting bygones go without absolving people of the consequences of their behavior.

It includes a forgiveness quilt, where participants are invited to add their own biases and seek forgiveness from other community members. The next truck focuses on the idea of radical imagination, which serves as a space for people to imagine a more just world in which liberation from oppression is possible. The final truck is on Transfuturism, which investigates the experience of Black trans and Black gender nonconforming people through photography, art history, and oral history. The buses travel around St. Louis to areas of the city that have been historically disenfranchised or marginalized. Dr. Johnson’s work on this topic also includes depicting trans people in portraits as superheroes through collaborative efforts with the subjects of the portraits. During the Q&A, Dr. Johnson also discussed their own experience incorporating art making into teaching courses at SLU, such as asking students to paint their own biases.

Artwork created by Dr. Sarah Scott Shields during the activity on understanding the self

Fall Alumni Panel Event On Friday, October 18th, the Department of Art Education held its inaugural alumni panel in the William Johnston building. The panel featured alumni from each program within the Department who shared experiences from their professional career paths.

Achia Floyd, alumna from the Arts Administration program, graduated with her master’s in 2017. At the time that she entered the program, she aspired to become an orchestra manager. She currently serves as the Development Manager for the Atlanta Music Project,

On the second day of the workshop, participants were asked to examine their own understanding of the self with regard to work roles through a visual arts exploration.

Participants were asked to create artwork that considered their identity, their work, and their passions and to

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a nonprofit that serves over 300 children in the Atlanta area and strives to use music to create social change.

Achia reported that the Arts Administration program prepared her for her current position by teaching her to advocate for the arts across disciplines through a wide breadth of knowledge and love for continual learning.

She advised current students to join networks wherever they go, both within the arts and beyond, because these kinds of connections will provide critical support to professional pathways.

because she wanted to help people in a creative way.

Rachel currently owns her own private practice and believes that the Art Therapy program prepared her for her current position by exposing her to a variety of populations during her three practicum placements as a graduate student. She advised students to try working with different populations soon after graduation, and to not fear seeking another job if the position does not fit their skills and abilities.

Finally, Dr. Sarah Graves represented the Museum Education and Visitor-Centered Curation program. Dr. Graves shared that her love of museums began at a young age, and that she had gratifying internships at the a number of museums in Tallahassee during her master’s.

She currently works at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts as the collections information specialist. She believes that the Edu-curation program prepared her for her current position by training her to incorporate education into curation to benefit the public. Her advice to current students is to approach internships with enthusiasm, don’t be afraid to ask questions, and be willing to go beyond the course requirements.

Amanda Thompson is a 2006 master’s graduate who represented the Art Education program. Amanda currently serves as the Assistant Director of the Council on Culture and Arts in Tallahassee. She recounted knowing that she wanted to become an art teacher in the 3rd grade. This drove her to pursue both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from FSU’s Department of Art Education. The Art Education program prepared Amanda for her current position by helping her to understand her abilities and values while teaching her to develop confidence in herself to practice with intentionality and compassion. Amanda cited that the department’s Art for Life philosophy is central to her practice as an art educator and that she enjoys implementing that philosophy in a tangible way. Amanda’s advice for current students is to determine what your goals and skills are, and to keep in mind that one can learn skills and tasks, not enthusiasm and passion for the field.

Faculty and students from all programs in the Department of Art Education attended the event. Attendees had the opportunity to ask questions to panel members regarding their experiences as professionals, which covered a range of topics including choosing positions that are a good fit, navigating licensure, and the choice between a professional and an academic career.

Rachel Mock, a 2007 alumna, represented the Art Therapy program. Rachel pursued her Art Therapy degree at FSU

From left to right: Dr. Antonio Cuyler, Achia Floyd, Amanda Thompson, and Rachel Mock (not pictured: Dr. Sarah Graves)

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DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI Achia Floyd (MA Arts Administration 2017) is currently the Development Manager for the Atlanta Music Project, a nonprofit that serves young people in the Atlanta area through music for social change. She credits her academic program with helping her achieve professional goals, stating, “The program as a whole helped me achieve success in my career. I have used knowledge from every admin course in my career. Everything from grant writing to knowledge on how cultural policy affects the distribution of funds to arts organizations. Courses on leadership have helped me navigate office politics, career advice has helped me never sell myself short when advancing my career. My internship alongside service learning has helped serve as the necessary experience when applying to jobs within my field, helping me surpass entry level positions. Also, I made lifelong friends while in the Arts Admin program, and we still provide each other support, though we no longer live near one another.

I firmly believe that my Arts Admin degree is the gift that never stops giving, and I cannot express how grateful I am for all that I learned and experienced as a graduate student at FSU.”

her private practice, the Center for Support, into its own small building. She hopes to eventually hire other therapists so that the center can become a nurturing environment for even more people in the Big Bend region.

She believes her academic program helped her achieve professional goals through, “A variety of experiences that I was able to obtain during my master’s program at FSU. I was able to get three very different practicum placements, and I had a variety of professors teaching me their approaches to art therapy. This helped me to start out with a variety of tools in my ‘therapy toolbox.’ After I graduated, I was able to gain helpful supervision from two of my professors as I attempted to navigate ‘the real world’ as a novice art therapist. This supervision helped me to get my ATR credential, so that I could become a registered art therapist. I also knew that I wanted to get a Ph.D., and my former Art Therapy professors were very encouraging about this. They even wrote me letters of recommendation for various programs. I am currently getting my Ph.D. in Counseling and Psychological Studies from Regent University.”

Amanda Thompson (BA Studio Art 2004, BA Art Education 2004, MA Art Education 2005) has been working at Council on Culture & Arts (COCA), the arts agency serving Tallahassee’s capital region, since before receiving her masters in 2005. She currently serves as the organization’s Assistant Director and manages all of COCA’s education & public art programming. She regularly presents workshops and lectures in both academic and informal settings and was recently invited to present four different workshops during the Florida Art Education Association’s annual

Rachel Mock (MS Art Therapy 2007) currently works as a registered art therapist and licensed mental health counselor in private practice. She began with an online private practice in 2016. In August 2018 she began sharing an office space in Tallahassee with another art therapist, and in August 2019 she was able to achieve her dream of moving

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conference. The workshops included “What’s an LAA?” which introduced the role of the Local Arts Agency (LAA) and how educators can use it as a resource, “Media Maven” which taught participants how to use the power of the press to further their art education advocacy efforts, “The Midas Touch” which offered tips and tricks for successful grant applications, and “Taking it to the Streets” which was co-presented with a colleague on a collaborative public art project and offered an overview of this project along with ways to develop similar initiatives.

Ms. Thompson received the Florida Alliance for Arts Education (FAAE) 2018 Arts Education Professional Leadership Award and recently received a $10,000 “National Endowment for the Arts/Division of Cultural Affairs Initiatives Partnership Program” grant from the State of Florida’s Division of Cultural Affairs (DCA). This will fund the 2020 Arts Day and Chalk Walk event at the state capitol to drive awareness of the importance of arts education. This event will be on January 23, 2020 and will be co-presented by DCA and COCA.

at the Eleventh International Conference on the Inclusive Museum. She also presented on copyright and artists rights societies in a presentation titled “Engaging Public Domain & Creative Commons as Part of the Creative Process” at the I2E2 Conference at the University of North Alabama. Dr. Graves’ digital presentation of a virtual poster titled “Silent Pedagogy” was presented at the Twelfth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina this November.

She received the FSU College of Fine Arts Travel Grant in February of 2019, and the recipient of the Emerging Scholar Award at the Eleventh International Conference on the Inclusive Museum in 2018.

Dr. Graves credits her academic program with preparing her to reach professional goals, stating, “My academic program cultivated an excellent habit of reading and staying up-to-date with research, specifically in the museum field but also in the arts and education, which is invaluable in an arts organization. My professors, particularly Pat Villeneuve, really encouraged me to stay organized and be productive, which was how I earned my Ph.D. while working full time and how I stay organized here in my job. Once I learned how to structure my calendar and my priorities, it was easy to stay on conference presentations, read new studies and research, and work with my organization to continue to improve the museum’s involvement with its visitors and its collection.”

Sarah Graves (Ph.D. Museum Education and Visitor-Centered Exhibitions 2019) currently serves as the Collections Information Specialist at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Montgomery, Alabama. Within the past year, she has presented her dissertation research titled “Sharing Experiences: Volunteer Motivation and Retention in an Art Museum”

SCHOLARSHIPS The FSU Department of Art Education awarded scholarships in the 2019/2020 Academic Year to the following graduate students: Marylou & Ernestine Kuhn Scholarship Jessica Ens Sarah Grant Yawei Xiao Mary Margaret Richey Karolyn Turner Alexia Lobaina

Frances E. Anderson Scholarship Lucille Romanik Heather Robbins Marcia Rosal Fund for Art Therapy Jessica Holt Ivan and Inez Johnson Family Scholarship Danielle Horak

Jessie Lovano Kerr Scholarship Debbie Gerardi Charles M. Down Scholarship Julia Atkins 6

In Rememberance of

DR. JESSIE LOVANO-KERR

Dr. Jessie Lovano-Kerr and her husband Sandy.

support, which makes a very big difference for my family, but for the confidence that financial support made manifest.” She also stated that receiving this award made it possible for her to attend The Arts in Society international conference in Vancouver, B.C. and that “I will be always grateful. Now it is my turn to make her proud, and I will.”

The Department of Art Education is sad to announce the passing of Dr. Jessie Lovano-Kerr, a beloved former professor of the department and a supportive donor.

Dr. Lovano-Kerr earned a Ph. D. in Studio Art and Art Education. She began her career at Indiana University.

In 1982, Dr. Lovano-Kerr moved to Tallahassee with her husband, who was pursuing his graduate degree in psychology. She was a professor in the department for fifteen years and was essential to the development of the Art Education Program. Provost and former chair of the Art Education department, Dr. Sally McRorie, states that, “Jessie was an indefatigable member of our faculty and groundbreaking leader of the Florida Institute for Art Education, heavily funded by Getty, Annenberg and other major groups over many years.”

Dr. Lovano-Kerr’s dedication to Art Education was unmatched. Previous students rave of her kindness and compassion while commending her for her exceling work in the field of art education. She served on several boards and committees to further art education, such as the Getty Education Institute, a part of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. As an artist, her photography was exhibited in multiple galleries in and around the Tallahassee area, such as 621 Gallery and the Gadsden Arts Center. She also curated several shows locally.

While at FSU, Dr. Lovano-Kerr and her husband, Sandy, generously created and funded the Jessie LovanoKerr and Donald R. Kerr Graduate Scholarship in Art Education. This scholarship continues to provide financial assistance to graduate students. Doctoral student and 2018-2019 recipient, Elise Lael Kieffer, shared that, “Dr. Lovano-Kerr might never know the depth of my gratitude, not only for her financial

Instead of flowers, the family has asked for contributions to the Jessie Lovano-Kerr and Donald R. Kerr Art Education Graduate Student Fund.

Donations are greatly appreciated and can be sent to the FSU Foundation, 325 W. College Avenue, Tallahassee, FL 32301.

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LAUNCH OUR STUDENTS INTO 2020 WITH THE

ART EDUCATION EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY FUND! Thanks to the generous support of our donors during the 2019 Art Education Travel Fund, we were able to fund student trips to national and international conferences! Highlighted below are some of the student trips funded by donations.

“Your funding allowed me to meet with one of the biggest names in visitor studies…these experiences were a wonderful supplement to everything I am reading and learning about in my coursework.”

Michelle Sunset, Ph.D. Museum Education and Visitor-Centered Exhibitions The American Alliance of Museums Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA “I am deeply thankful…knowing there are entities like you that support further development outside the perimeter of the university.”

Egda Claudio, Ph.D. Art Education The International Congress of Qualitative Research, Chicago, IL “Thanks to this award, I was able to attend and learn from the conference and hopefully brought even more recognition to Florida State University, the College of Fine Arts, and the Department of Art Education.”

Brad Lister, Ph.D. Arts Administration The Arts in Society Conference, Lisbon, Portugal

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Please keep a look out for our Great Give Campaign, $25 in 25 beginning on February 3, 2020. Over a 25-day period we’re asking all alumni and friends to give at least $25 to support extraordinary opportunities for our students to travel to conferences, internships, collect data for their research, and more.

Read more about our exceptional students on our website & social media pages:

DEPARTMENTAL EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTIVITY 2019 has been a busy year for the Department of Art Education! Our faculty and students have published work, traveled across the globe to conferences, and received awards for their many accomplishments. Please join us in celebrating our excellence in productivity from 2019:

Art Education Students: Julia Atkins – Arts Administration Doctoral Student

National Conferences The Value of Regional Gatherings for Arts Administrators, Social Theory, Politics, & the Arts,

New Orleans, LA Evaluating the Arts Leadership Classroom through Critical Pedagogy, The Southeastern Art

Leadership Educators Regional Conference, Jacksonville, FL

Co-Moderator, Round Table Discussion, Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference on the Value of Regional Arts Administration Gatherings

Awards

Charles M. Dorn Scholarship from the College of Fine Arts

Jay Boda – Museum Education and Visitor-Centered Curation Doctoral Student

National Presentations Readers Theatre: Fostering Reflective Judgement in Any Context, The Critical and Creative

Thinking Conference, St. Petersburg, FL

Grants

Research and Evaluation Grant from Committee for University Museums and Collections

project for Professionalizing Museum Work in Higher Education: A Global Approach

Special Projects

Volunteer interpreter for exhibition Beaches, Benches, and Boycotts: the Civil Rights Era in Tampa Bay, Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL

Egda Claudio – Art Education Doctoral Student

National Presentations Unfolding Pages of Struggle: An Arts-based Research book of Borderlands, International

Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

Jessica Ens – Art Education Master’s Student

National Presentations Teaching Toward Social Justice, Florida Art Education Association, Ponte Vedra, FL

Emily Faehnle – Art Education Master’s Student

National Presentations Teaching Toward Social Justice, Florida Art Education Association, Ponte Vedra, FL

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Diana Filiault – Art Education Doctoral Student

Journal Articles

Graduate Student Identity: Negotiating the Academic and Creative Through Resistance or

Conformity, Visual Inquiry

Debbie Gerardi – Art Education Doctoral Student

Journal Articles

Graduate Student Identity: Negotiating the Academic and Creative Through Resistance or

Conformity, Visual Inquiry

International Presentations Through Nick’s eyes; Art education and disability studies, Disability and Disciplines: The

International Conference on Educational, Cultural, and Disability Studies

Gerri Hardin – Art Education Master’s Student

National Presentations Teaching Toward Social Justice, Florida Art Education Association, Ponte Vedra, FL

Danielle Henn – Art Education Doctoral Student

National Presentations

The Art of Making Do in the Classroom, National Art Education Association Conference,

Boston, MA

Megan Hoss – Art Education Master’s Student

National Presentations Teaching Toward Social Justice, Florida Art Education Association, Ponte Vedra, FL

Elise Kieffer – Arts Administration Doctoral Student

Journal Articles I Landed a U.F.O on Main Street: An Autoethnography of the Founding of an Arts Education

Organization in Appalachian Kentucky. The International Journal of Social, Political and

Community Agendas in the Arts.

National Presentations The Value of Regional Gatherings for Arts Administrators, Social Theory, Politics, & the Arts,

New Orleans, LA Good Mentoring Is Hard To Find, The Southeastern Arts Leadership Educators Regional

Conference, Jacksonville, FL

International Presentations A Journey of Learning and Becoming Though Performing: A New Application of Prosthetic Pedagogy, Arts in Society Conference, Lisbon, Portugal Awards

Emerging Scholar Award at the 14th International Conference on the Arts in Society held at

the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon

Bernard Michel Career and Technical Education Scholarship

Diversity and Inclusion Certificate, The Center for Leadership and Social Change, Florida State University 10

Boyie Kim – Arts Administration Doctoral Student

National Presentations Arts Administration, Arts Administrators in the 4th Industrial Revolution Era, Social Theory,

Politics and Arts Conference, New Orleans, LA Technology as a Tool for Arts Organizations in the 4th Industrial Revolution Era, Association

for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), San Diego, CA

Awards

ARNOVA’s Doctoral Fellows for 2019

Brad Lister – Arts Administration Doctoral Student

National Presentations Why Inclusion Matters and What it Looks Like: A Partnership Between Community Choirs and

Homeless Service Organizations, Seattle Arts Leadership Conference, Seattle, WA

International Presentations Negotiating political swings: Coping with dramatic reductions to grant funding in the arts,

14th International Conference on the Arts in Society, Lisbon, Portugal Awards

Emerging Scholar Award at the 14th International Conference on the Arts in Society held at

the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon

Brie Medina – Art Education Master’s Student

National Presentations Teaching Toward Social Justice, Florida Art Education Association, Ponte Vedra, FL

Paige Smith-Wyatt – Art Education Doctoral Student

Visual Essays

Understanding Art as Experience Through Painting, International Journal of Education Through Art Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition, Johnson Center for the Arts, Troy, AL

Anthony Woodruff – Art Education Doctoral Student

National Presentations Improving the Museum Experience for Visitors with Autism Spectrum Disorders, National Art

Education Association Conference, Boston, MA

Hsiu-Chun Yang – Art Education Doctoral Student

International Presentations Applying Duo Arts-based Inquiry to Professional Development, International Society of

Education through Art (InSEA), Vancouver, Canada

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Art Education Faculty: Barbara Parker-Bell, PsyD, ATR-BC

President, Art Therapy Credentials Board (ATCB) Director of Art Therapy Program

Book Chapters

Religious Practice in Russia, Medical Settings, and End of Life Rituals, The International

Handbook of Art Therapy in Palliative and Bereavement Care, (M. Wood, R. Jacobson & H.

Cridford, Eds.)

Addressing End of Life Care, Loss, and Bereavement in the Russian Federation (Parker-Bell, B.,

Vaulin, T., & Stipek, A), The International Handbook of Art Therapy in Palliative and Bereavement Care, (M. Wood., R. Jacobson, & H. Cridford, Eds.) Books

Art Therapy & Career Counseling: Creative Strategies for Career Development Across the Life

Span, (Barbara Parker-Bell & Deb Osborn)

National Presentations Strong of Heart: Designing a Fused Glass Project to Support Student Resilience, American Art

Therapy Association Conference, Kansas City, MO Art therapy Credential Recertification: How and Why Continuing Education Credits Count,

Expressive Therapy Summit, New York, NY

International Presentations 3-Day Advance Practice Art Therapy Presentations and Training, Seoul National University,

Seoul, Korea Fostering Resilience in Youth: Art Therapy Strategies & Interventions, Fourth Summer Arts

Therapies Forum/Conference: Art Therapy and Arts Pedagogy: New Possibilities for Health Promotion, Supporting and Developing Human Resources, Gryazi, Lipetskaya Region, Russian

Federation Art Therapy: exploring the Digital Tool-Kit, (Preconference Course & Conference Workshop)

Fourth Summer Arts Therapies Forum. Conference: Arts Therapy and Arts Pedagogy: new

Possibilities for Health-Promotion, Supporting and Developing Human Resources. Gryazi,

Lipetskyaya Region, Russian Federation Russian Art Therapy and Mental Health Care: Transformation, Trends and Training, (B.

Parker- Bell & N. Nazarova), International Art Therapy Practice/Research Conference, London,

UK

Nancy Gerber, Ph.D., ATR-BC

Specialized Faculty, Art Therapy Program

National Presentations Considering a Strategic Plan for Research in Art Therapy, (Gerber, N. & Van Lith, T.), American

Art Therapy Association Conference, Kansas City, MO Art Therapy Doctoral Studies: Changing Perspectives, Shaping Art Therapy’s Future, (Gerber,

N. Convener and Moderator, Forinash, M., Gussak, D., Kapitan, L., Kaimal, G., & LaCivita, J.),

American Art Therapy Association Conference, Kansas City, MO 12

Art Therapy Education Continuum: Undergraduate to the Doctorate, (Gerber, N. Convener and

Moderator, St. John, P., & Schwartz, J.), American Art Therapy Association Conference, Kansas

City, MO

International Presentations Arts-based Research Approaches to Mechanisms of Change in the Creative Arts Therapies,

(Gerber, N.), European Consortium of Arts Therapies Education, Alcala de Henares, Spain Arts-based Research Approaches to Mechanisms of Change in the Creative Arts Therapies,

Inaugural International Art Therapy Practice Research Conference, London, UK Arts-Based Research Special Interest Group Pre-Conference Symposium, (Gerber, N.&

Siegermund, R.), International Congress of Qualitative Research, Urbana, Illinois The Future of Arts-based and the Arts-Informed Inquiry in the Social and Health Sciences:

Toward an Interdisciplinary Global Arts-based Research Consortium, European Congress of

Qualitative Inquiry, Edinburgh, Scotland

Saving Our Soul: Radical Imagination as Activism, International Congress of Qualitative Research, Urbana, Illinois

Intrinsic Arts-based Research, International Congress of Qualitative Research, Urbana, Illinois

Dave Gussak, Ph.D., ATR-BC

Professor, Graduate Art Therapy Program

Journal Articles

Drawing Time Revisited: The Benefits of Art Therapy in Prison, The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy

Book Chapters

Art Therapy in Prison Hospice: A Compassionate Bridge, Art Therapy in Hospice Care Around the World, (B. Fowler Jacobson & M. Wood, Eds.)

Ethics and Morality on the Stan: Art Therapist as Expert Witness, Exploring Ethical Dilemmas in Art Therapy, (A. Di Maria, Ed.)

Books

Art and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned: Re-Creating Identity Grants

Art Therapy in Florida Prisons - $315,604.30

National Presentations 25 Years of the Frenzied Tango of Art and Violence, American Art Therapy Association

Conference, Kansas City, MO

International Presentations Art Therapy with the Imprisoned: Re-Creating Identity, International Art Therapy Practice/

Research Conference of the American Art Therapy Association/British Association of Art

Therapists, London, UK Using Art Therapy to Reverse the Delinquent Label with Juvenile Detention Populations, Second

International Summit Child Abuse: Screening, Detection and Assessment, Haifa, Israel 13

Rachel Fendler, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Art Education

Journal Articles

Desire Paths: A Reflection with Preservice Students in the Eventful Space of Learning, Studies

in Art Education

“Waging Peace!” An art museum as a resource for partnerships, The International Journal of Arts Education

Book Chapters

Trafí-Prats, L., & Fendler, R. (2019). Postproductive methods: Researching modes of

relationality and affect worlds through participatory video with youth. In M. Thomas & R.

Bellingham (Eds.), The Future of Qualitative Research: Innovative Methodologies (pp. 19-34).

Bloomsbury Academic.

National Presentations Civically engaged art education: Lessons we’ve learned from Art for Life, National Art

Education Association Conference, Boston, MA Pathways and Partnerships for a Collaborative Community Art Initiative, National Art

Education Association Conference, Boston, MA

Siegesmund, R., Fendler, R., & Han, S. (presented 2019, September). Visual Research Methods.

Plenary presentation in Richard Siegesmund (Chair), Art Education Research Institute, New

York.

Fendler, R. (presented 2019, September). Agency, affect and arts based research: Situating teen video practices as an ‘event of place’. Art Education Research Institute, New York, NY.

International Presentations Pedagogy in the Event of Place: Filming Un/memorialized African American Heritage Sites with Teens, American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada

Fendler, R. (presented 2019, November). Affective methodologies: the ethics and aesthetics of artistic research [Metodologías afectivas: una aproximación a la estética y la ética de la investigación artística]. Keynote presentation in Seminar on Artistic Research. Instituto de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico City, Mexico.

Foot Soldiers: A proposal to use arts based research to support civic engagement, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Grants

AHPEG: Video, Voices and Viewpoints: Developing Artistic Walking Tours in Frenchtown $20,000

Ann Rowson Love, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Museum Education & Visitor-Centered Curation Liaison to The Ringling

National Presentations

Considering Competing Values in Organizational Practice, The Southeastern Arts Leadership

Educators Regional Conference, Jacksonville, FL 14

The rise of fashion exhibitions in art museums: An examination through critical pedagogies,

International Conference of the Arts in Society, Lisbon, Portugal Dimensions of curation: Honoring objects and audiences through collaboration, American

Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA

International Presentations Considering Competing Values in a Model for Curation, Twelfth International Conference on the

Inclusive Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Artist Residency The Hambridge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA

Sara Shields, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Art Education Director of Teacher Certification

Journal Articles

Graduate Student Identity: Negotiating the Academic and Creative Through Resistance or

Conformity, Visual Inquiry

Quotidian Practices and the Ways of Art, Visual Arts Research

Troubling the “WE”: Slam Poetry as Subversive Duoethnogrophy, Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

National Presentations Civically engaged art education: Lessons we’ve learned from Art for Life, National Art

Education Association Conference, Boston, MA Teaching Toward Social Justice, Florida Art Education Association, Ponte Vedra, FL

Interational Presentations Foot Soldiers: A proposal to use arts based research to support civic engagement,

International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL. Awards

Southeastern Region’s Higher Educator of the Year

Grants

AHPEG: Video, Voices, and Viewpoints: Developing Artistic Walking Tours in Frenchtown

COFRS: Teens as Public Pedagogues: A Portrait of Foot Soldiers Then and Now - $14,000

Theresa Van Lith, Ph.D., ATR-BC, AThR

Associate Professor, Graduate Art Therapy Program

Journal Articles

Biobehavioral Utility of Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy: Neurobiological Underpinnings and

Mental Health Impact, (Beerse, M., Van Lith, T., Pickett, S., & Stanwood, G.), Experimental

Biology and Medicine

An Examination of Contemporary and Promising Research Strategies in Art Therapy, (Van Lith, T. & Beerse, M.), Journal of the American Art Therapy Association

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Do Art Therapist Use Vernacular? How Art Therapists Communicate Their Scope of Practice, (Van Lith, T. & Bullock, L.), Journal of the American Art Therapy Association

Is There a Biofeedback Response to Art Therapy? A Technology-Assisted Approach for

Reducing Anxiety and Stress in College Students, (Beerse, M., Van Lith, T., & Stanwood, G.), SAGE Open

Promotion

Associate Professor, Art Education Awards

Department of Education Faculty Teaching Award

Grants

Mindfulness-based Art Therapy mental Health App. Funded by FSU GAP Award, $6,000

Pat Villeneuve, Ph.D.

Professor and Director of Arts Administration

Journal Articles

Considering Competing Values in Art Museum Exhibition Curation, Stedelijk Studies

National Presentations Considering Competing Values in Organizational Practice, The Southeastern Arts Leadership

Educators Regional Conference, Jacksonville, FL

International Presentations Considering Competing Values in a Model for Curation, Twelfth International Conference on the

Inclusive Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Amber Ward, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Education

Cover Art Design

Kuby, C. R., & Christ, R. C. (2019). Speculative pedagogies of qualitative inquiry (front cover

art). New York, NY: Routledge.

National Presentations After the #MeToo Movement: What’s Next?, (Bickley-Green, C., Bar-Dimitriadis, M.,

Ivashkevich, O., & Ward, A.), National Art Education Association’s National Convention for

the Women’s Caucus Business Meeting II, Boston, MA

Ward, A. (2019, April). Structures and systems: Co-created mini exhibitions. Presentation at Missouri Art Education Association’s Spring Conference for the Curriculum SLAM. Kansas City, MO.

Broome, J., Shields, S., Chang, D., Brown, S., Tillander, M., Powell, H., & Ward, A. (November, 2019). Art education graduate programs in Florida: Master’s and doctoral degrees. Florida Art Education Association’s Annual Conference. Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.

National Panel Changing Courses: How Can Programs Get Their Bearing through the Art Education (Scholar)

ship? (Sutters, J. P. & Ward, A.), National Art Education Association’s National Convention for

the Higher Education Division, Boston, MA 16

National Workshop

Ward, A., & Lamme, S. (2019, April). Perfectly imperfect: Ôlter to empower. Offsite workshop

at Missouri Art Education Association’s Spring Conference. Kansas City, MO.

Invited Talk Artmaking as Methodology in Social Science Research; Qualitative Methods in Educational

Research I, University of Missouri; Columbia, Missouri (2019, April)

Jeff Broome, Ph.D.

Associate Chair, Department of Art Education Associate Professor of Art Education

Journal Articles

Responding to the challenge to care: Suggestions for art education curricula, Art Education

National Presentations Preparing the next generation of art education researchers and teacher educators, National

Art Education Association Conference, Boston, MA Real lives 21: Showcasing the stories of art educators and contemporary learning through narrative inquiry, National Art Education Association Conference, Boston, MA

Broome, J., Shields, S., Chang, D., Brown, S., Tillander, M., Powell, H., & Ward, A. (November, 2019). Art education graduate programs in Florida: Master’s and doctoral degrees. Florida Art Education Association’s Annual Conference. Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.

Antonio Cuyler, Ph.D.

Interim Chair, Department of Art Education Associate Professor of Arts Administration & Coordinator of the MA Program

Journal Articles

The Role of Foundations in Achieving Creative Justice in the U.S. Cultural Sector, GIA Reader

Towards a Research Agenda in Arts Management: Pathways to the Future, Chinese Journal of Arts Management

National Presentations Fireside Keynote Chat, Arts Equity Summit, Boston, MA From Social Justice to Creative Justice: Reframing Access, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Discourses in the U.S. Cultural Sector and Implications for Cultural Policy Research, Social

Theory, Politics & the Arts, New Orleans, LA Arts Management & Cultural Policy Across the African Diaspora. Arts Administrators of Color

Network, Washington, D.C.

International Presentations Using the Creative Justice Model to Measure Progress on Access, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in the

U.S. Cultural Sector, International Exchange Network, Künzelsau, Germany

An International Survey of the Motivations and Experiences of Arts Management Graduates, International Association of Arts and Cultural Management, Venice, Italy

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Creative Justice: Re-Framing Nordic Cultural Policy Research, Nordic Conference on Cultural

Policy Research, BifrĂśst, Iceland Diversity in Cultural Organizations: Insights form the Careers of Executive Opera managers of

Color in the U.S., European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres, Dijon,

France Looking Beyond What We’ve Done Before: Minding Potential Blind Spots in Diversifying U.S. Museums. Paper presented at Inclusive Museum, Common Ground Research Network, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Local Workshops Diversifying Your Board: The Bad, the Good, and the Absolutely Necessary, (Workshop),

Building Better Boards, Tallahassee, FL

International Workshops Who are we? The power of our privileges and prejudices in Arts Management. Workshop

delivered at Brokering Intercultural Exchange Network Winter School, Berlin, Germany Grants

COFRS: Diversity in Cultural Organizations: Insights from the Careers of Executive Opera

Managers of Color in the U.S. - $14,000

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