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Department Chair Deborah Smith-Shank at the 2015 Relate North Conference in Anchorage, Alaska
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ON UNDERGRADUATES: CALI SANKER 14 FOCUS ON PhD: CHRISTOPHER JEANSONNE 6 FOCUS SPECIALIZES IN ART EDUCATION AND COMICS REFLECTS ON STUDENT TEACHING CONTRIBUTIONS OF LAWSON, 16 FOCUS ON PhD: HYUNJU KIM SPECIALIZES 7 RECOGNIZING IN DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE THROUGH WALKER
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ON PhD: VERÓNICA BETANCOURT 10 FOCUS SPECIALIZES IN MUSEUM STUDIES
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(L to R) Undergraduate students Noelle Klein, Alyssa von Reuter, Christie Paul, Patricia Sarzynski, Krsna Ziyad, and graduate students Ahran Koo and Omarthan Clarke study abroad in Kingston, Jamaica
FROM THE CHAIR’S DESK Welcome to our first annual newsletter from the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy. We are easing into our second year in our fabulously renovated Sullivant Hall and enjoying every minute. For those of you who have been affiliated with the department for a long time, there are some staff changes you might want to know about. Brian Javor has taken the role of department assistant, Michelle Attias-Goldstein is our fiscal/ HR manager and Kirsten Thomas continues her work as our graduate coordinator. Most recently, Mark McGuire was appointed program manager for field experiences to begin in January 2016. Mark will manage the BA in arts management internships and the bachelor’s in art education student teaching and licensure protocols. He also will perform a host of other critical duties that contribute to the quality of our undergraduate students’ professional experiences. As has been true of art education throughout its history, we continue to meet the needs of culture and remain open to new challenges. Our new name reflects our diverse mission (keeping education in the center of it all). The Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy currently offers five degrees: BAE in art education, BA in arts management, MA in art education, MA in arts policy and administration and PhD in arts administration, education and policy. Our revised, renewed and positively amazing online MA in art education goes online in summer 2016. As you probably know, we also offer an undergraduate minor in arts entrepreneurship, a graduate interdisciplinary specialization in material culture and department specializations in museum education and cultural policy & arts management. These indicate our broad, interdisciplinary understanding of the arts as cultural phenomena. Last November our department hosted Penn State and Teachers College graduate students and faculty at the annual GRAE (graduate research in art education) conference, a small but very powerful graduate research conference. Our students and faculty enjoyed hearing about some of the most innovative research in art education by some of the most exciting young scholars! The presenters received amazing feedback from Ohio State alumni Mindi Rhoades and Mike Kellner. Study abroad programs are getting quite a bit of encouragement from the university and we are excited to play our part to bring international experiences to our students. In summer 2015 Karen Hutzel and Joni Acuff took a group of students to Kingston, Jamaica, to engage with our Ohio State alumni in the arts both in schools and communities in collaboration with the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts. This fabulous learning adventure will be repeated in 2017. Wayne Lawson continues his yearly educational trip to Santiago, Chile, so students can discover what arts administration, education, entrepreneurship and policy looks like in post-Pinochet Chile. Shari Savage and Christine Ballengee Morris will take a group to Dublin, Ireland, in summer 2016 to discover the material culture from Neolithic times to the present, from earthworks to architecture in collaboration with University College Dublin. Finally, three of our AAEP family are retiring. Dennis Cannon stepped down from his role as coordinator of student teaching in August 2015. Wayne Lawson retired at the end of December 2015 and Sydney Walker will retire in May 2016. There are no words for our gratitude to each of them for their many years of dedicated service to the department or how very much we will miss them. Though I will not be retiring, I will be stepping down as chair at the end of the summer to spend more time teaching, making art and doing research. Watch our website for the announcement of a new chair! We want to thank each of you for your continued support and we invite you to share our latest adventures on our website: aaep.osu.edu. Wishing you health, prosperity, happiness and love. Best wishes,
Deborah Smith-Shank, Professor and Chair
NEW ONLINE MA IN ART EDUCATION LAUNCHED NOVEMBER 24, 2015
AAEP’s Online MA in Art Education focuses on community, museum, classroom and studio
We are proud to announce the relaunch of the online master’s degree in art education, now offered completely online! This two-year degree program is for art educators who want to change their thinking and the world through artmaking and education. With a focus on meaning-making, critical thinking and reflective practice, we are redefining what art education is and what art educators do. Department Chair Deborah Smith-Shank said, “We are so proud that the Online Master’s in Art Education program is the first online degree program in the College of Arts and Sciences. This new degree will give art teachers the opportunity to professionalize their license in a mentor-rich environment.” Program Director and Assistant Professor Karen Hutzel said, “We are especially excited to offer study abroad to our online students. This unique opportunity embodies the spirit of our program – working with all sorts of arts educators, communities and cultures to transform the field of art education and enact positive changes in the places we practice.” Students earn the same degree as if they attended the on-campus program, taking classes with renowned art educators, personalized to their interests. We are now accepting applications to the degree program. Check out our new program webpage at: aaep.osu.edu/art-education-online.
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LOBBYING FOR NATIVE AMERICAN EARTHWORKS Professor Christine Ballengee Morris stands on the Octagon Mound. Lobbying for this Native American space located on the current site of a golf course continues to be a priority
Currently, Octagon Mound is occupied by a private country club, which restricts access to Native Americans on this sacred site.
Professor Christine Ballengee Morris has been a strong advocate for Newark Earthworks for decades and most recently was selected to represent the World Heritage Committee of Ohio at the World Heritage Organization in Washington, DC. Ballengee Morris along with the other World Heritage Committee members of Ohio actively lobbied for multiple Native American heritage sites around Ohio, including the Octagon Mound and the Great Circle in Newark, Ohio. These are the largest set of geometric earthen enclosures in the world, and are considered one of the 70 ancient wonders of the world. On Dec. 10, 2015, Professor Ballangee Morris, coordinator of the American Indian Studies Program, was honored to attend the Washington, DC event. The event featured remarks by both the Honorable Irina Bokova, director of UNESCO and Laura Bush, former First Lady of the United States. While in Washington, DC, the committee met with Senator Sherrod Brown to lobby for these important heritage sites, the official designation of which would create strong cultural and economic impact for Ohio. Currently, Octogon Mound is occupied by a private country club whose golf course winds around and on top of the
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mound. The country club advertises their colonial hold on the land on their web site, “The golf course at Moundbuilders is unlike any other in the world. It is designed around famous Prehistoric Native American Earthworks that come into play on 11 of the holes.” For 20 years community members, American Indians, and scholars have met with various people, including OHC, to determine ways to make the site more accessible and to remove the country club from this sacred site. Finally with the support of OHC, a movement to obtain World Heritage Recognition was seen as an answer. Already a National Historic Landmark, in 2006, the State of Ohio designated Newark Earthworks as the official prehistoric monument of the state. “Built by people of the ancient Hopewell Culture between 100 B.C. and 500 A.D., this architectural wonder of ancient America was part cathedral, part cemetery and part astronomical observatory. The entire Newark Earthworks originally encompassed more than four square miles.”
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Ballangee-Morris lobbies for Native American earthworks at the World Heritage event in Washington, DC.: (BACK L-R) Todd Kleismit, Stacey Half-moon, Bill Weaver, John Hancock; (FRONT L-R) Marti Chaatsmith, Christine Ballengee Morris, Sherrod Brown, George Kane, Jack Blosser
EARTHWORKS CONTINUED Today, three major segments survive because of the efforts of interested local citizens including Ballengee Morris: 1) Great Circle Earthworks, nearly 1,200 feet in diameter and likely used as a vast ceremonial center; 2) Octagon Earthworks, also the site of the Mound Builders Country Club golf course; 3) Wright Earthworks, which is a fragment of a geometrically, near-perfect square enclosure, and part of one wall that originally ranged from about 940 to 950 feet in length, enclosing a total area of about 20 acres. One theory about the earthworks’ design is the Hopewell built them on such a massive scale for astronomical accuracy. In 1982, two professors from Earlham College in Indiana discovered the Hopewell builders aligned the earthworks to the complicated cycle of risings and settings of the moon. They recovered a remarkable wealth of indigenous
knowledge relating to geometry and astronomy encoded in the design of these earthworks. The Octagon Earthworks are aligned to the four moonrises and four moonsets that mark the limits of a 18.6 year-long cycle. Thanks to the Ohio History Connection for helping with this information: www.ohiohistory.org/visit/museum
FOCUS ON UNDERGRADUATES: CALI SANKER REFLECTS ON STUDENT TEACHING
(L) Cali Sanker demonstrates a process of attaching clay by using a needle tool. (R) Kelly McNicholas, Cali Sanker and Merijn van der Heijden interact with a participant of the community thumb print mural created by Sanker and Mark Lerose (BAE, ’15) at the 2014 Long St. Cultural Wall event By Cali Sanker Nothing could have prepared me more for student teaching than working at Urban Arts Space. During my time at the Space, I have been given the opportunity to explore the endless possibilities of art education. Urban Arts Space gave me the platform and support to create art programming for the gallery and our surrounding communities. I developed an understanding of how art fits into our everyday lives, how to lead a team, as well as how to support a culturally diverse community. Additionally, as a student within the art education program at Ohio State I have learned how to teach the tactile and philosophical process of art, as well as the importance of experimentation, awareness and the varied processes of learning. I am fueled by my passion that is so well supported and encouraged both through Urban Arts Space and The Ohio State University. I am looking forward to my future endeavors within art education. Cali Sanker is from Chesterfield, Ohio. As part of her internship/practicum for licensure in Art Education pre-K-12, she was mentored by art teacher, Becky Rehbeck at Britton Elementary School in Hilliard, and with art teacher Patrick Schaefer at Karrer Middle School in Dublin. Cali will graduate with her BAE in May 2016.
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RECOGNIZING CONTRIBUTIONS OF LAWSON, WALKER WAYNE LAWSON The Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy wishes to gratefully recognize Professor Wayne Lawson for his 23 years of contributions to the department and to his many students, whose lives he has enriched through his extensive knowledge and practical application in the field. Drawing upon his 29 years spent as director of the Ohio Arts Council, Professor Lawson taught courses on the management of nonprofit arts organizations, on managing policy change and on international cultural relations. He established the Chile study abroad for students, where his relationships with the Chilean embassy, ministries of education, foreign affairs and a network of museums and galleries demonstrate the value of research in arts policy and administration. In 2009 Professor Lawson was the first American to receive a Medal of Arts award from the National Council of Arts and Culture of Chile. He co-chaired the biannual Barnett Symposium planning committee between 1998 and 2014, helping to bring both American and foreign arts policy makers and arts managers, cultural philanthropists, arts advocates and visiting scholars together to enrich our understanding of issues such as cultural diplomacy, the cultural workforce, community cultural planning and arts entrepreneurship. Professor Lawson has been vital to our department in forging ties with the arts community in Columbus and beyond.
Students attending 2015 study abroad in Chile: (FRONT L-R) Nakyung Rhee, Megan Fitze, Elle Pierman, Jimin Cha; (BACK L-R) Wayne Lawson, Gretchen McIntosh, Maria DiFranco
A tireless advisor to students, Professor Lawson champions relevant and practical research informed by scholarly analysis and rigor. His engagement with a broad network of professional connections has been invaluable to helping students launch their professional careers. The department is fortunate Professor Lawson will continue to serve as faculty emeritus.
SYDNEY R. WALKER Professor Sydney R. Walker will retire in May 2016 as full professor and professor emerita. Walker’s service to the department has spanned over 24 years and over which time she has taught hundreds of students to think more clearly about issues of art education. She has received numerous invitations to serve as a resource to art education faculties across the country, as a facilitator of professional development workshops, as a consultant or project evaluator, and as part of art policy forums.
Sydney Walker continues to contribute to AAEP as professor emerita
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Professor Walker has made contributions to the profession of art education through her teaching, research, scholarship and professional activities including her responsibilities as editor of the journal Art Education. Professor Walker is known internationally in the field of art education as an exemplary editor, teacher and scholar with books including Teaching Meaning in Art Making (2001), and the co-authored book Rethinking Curriculum in Art Education (2005). Her research focus includes the importance of big Ideas, play and personal experience in art content and pedagogy. Perhaps Professor Walker’s most significant achievements are the ways in which she can relate theoretical issues to pragmatic means of getting students involved with contemporary social issues in and through the arts. She connects with undergraduate and graduate students, sharing with them complex theoretical positions and pragmatic strategies for making and teaching art. Professor Walker will continue to advise PhD students for the next several years. It is with deep gratitude that we recognize Sydney Walker and thank her for her years of service in the department and her contributions to the profession.
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Local artist Mathew McCarty demonstrates an artistic process
It is the department’s goal that every single student in AAEP have the opportunity to experience at least one international study abroad course sometime during their student experience at Ohio State. These fabulous adventures do change lives! {Deborah Smith-Shank, chair, AAEP}
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For over two decades, AAEP has partnered with Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts to educate Jamaican art teachers. Through our “mostly online MA” dozens of Jamaican art teachers earned their MA in art education and others attended Ohio State to pursue and achieve their PhD degrees from AAEP. For the first time in 2015, the department took Ohio State undergraduate and graduate students to Jamaica to learn from the alumni of our department. This international mentoring initiative was the brainchild of Professors Karen Hutzel and Deborah SmithShank. After an incredibly successful launch, this international study abroad program will be repeated every other year and all partners are excited about its potential. Professors Karen Hutzel and Joni Acuff traveled to Kingston, Jamaica, June 14-27, 2015 with 12 undergraduate and graduate students on the study abroad experience. While the majority of the students were from the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy, the reach for the program was university-wide, attracting participation from other disciplines including physics and early childhood
education, all interested in broadening their understanding of Jamaican arts and culture. This program, Exploring Jamaican Arts and Culture, focused on arts and cultural practices in schools, colleges, museums and cultural institutions in Jamaica. Working with the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, the students engaged with art teachers, arts professors, visual artists, musicians, museum practitioners and communitybased art educators who assisted in the exploration and analysis of policies, practices, content and pedagogies of the arts in Jamaica. Students also practiced visual literacy skills such as reading and critiquing visual and contextual representations of Caribbean arts and culture. The goal of this study abroad experience was to broaden students’ understanding of arts and culture in general and those specific to Jamaica, particularly cultural practices we have often come to accept within our national and local experiences. Integral to this experience were investigations into race relations, culture and language in Jamaica. Students were asked to reflect on their learning through writing and visual explorations. They were also encouraged to reflect on personal experiences in the arts as a point of reference and as a space to critically analyze cultural norms and accepted practices.
Edna Manley artist Nadine Hall gives a gallery talk to her students “I found…that the one-dimensionality of what we think of as ‘Jamaican art’, or even ‘Jamaican culture’ in general, was hardly a reflection of reality,” observed undergraduate art education major Trina Langsenkamp. “Among the souvenirs my friends expected to receive after my return home were beach-y seashell bracelets, hand woven Rastafarian hats and, of course, weed-related paraphernalia. The actual art — what we saw in the galleries, exhibitions at the arts colleges, performances in arts incubators, even what was being taught in the high schools — was far different from the craft culture we have come to expect from island nations. Our first day on Edna Manley’s campus we were greeted with amazing installations in jewelry, paintings, wire/metal work, fiber arts, graphic design, architecture and more, all as a part of the visual arts students’ senior exhibitions.” Undergraduate pre-service art teacher Jordan Moxley said this trip changed her understanding of what international travel can be: “My opinions about traveling and trips have changed. I don’t want to take my time off and money to go and ignorantly relax.”
AAEP alumni, professors Verona Barnes and Phyllis Hill (back) with AAEP faculty, professors Joni Acuff and Karen Hutzel at Edna Manley College
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FOCUS ON PhD: VERÓNICA BETANCOURT SPECIALIZES IN MUSEUM STUDIES By Verónica Betancourt In two years, I made the leap from graduate student to faculty member at the Smithsonian Latino Center (SLC) within its Latino Museum Studies Program (LMSP). LMSP seeks to improve the representation of Latina/o cultures and histories within the Smithsonian Institution by supporting the professional development of young scholars who focus on Latina/o issues. Because of my lifelong interest in museums and my dissertation research on the experiences of Latina/o visitors to encyclopedic art museums, the program was a perfect way to both deepen my engagement with contemporary scholarship in Latina/o studies and see how a major museum was incorporating such scholarship into its professional practice. As a first-year PhD student, I applied and was accepted into the 2013 cohort of 16 graduate students from around the world who were invited to participate in this intensive seminar and museum practicum program in Washington, DC. In my month-long practicum at the National Portrait Gallery, I was able to research potential art acquisitions that would improve the museum’s holdings in Latina/o history. I also was able to propose educational programs, such as a film series, that would accompany Portraiture Now: Staging the Self, an exhibition of contemporary Latina/o and Latin American portraiture. Just two summers later, I was honored to participate in the Latino Museum Studies Program as a faculty member. On July 23 I joined Cecilia Garibay, PhD, the preeminent researcher in Latina/o visitor studies, in giving a talk to both LMSP fellows and Smithsonian staff from varied museums and departments — from marketing and branding to education. Our presentation, “Listening to Latina/os: Visitor and Non-Visitor Values, Perceptions, and Experiences in Museum Contexts” covered a spectrum of visitation practice and addressed how a museum might conceive of compelling a non-visitor or infrequent visitor into becoming a frequent visitor. The SLC was generous with its time and Cecilia Garibay and I were able to give 20-minute individual presentations followed by an hour of discussion moderated by the SLC director, Eduardo Díaz. I enjoyed having the opportunity to answer questions from the museum field as well as to hear how my preliminary dissertation findings resonated with practitioners and encouraged them to reconsider their own assessments of their Latina/o visitors.
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Verónica Betancourt receives prestigious scholarship at Smithsonian to improve representation of Latina/o cultures
As an emerging scholar, it was thrilling to contribute to the Latina/o visitor inclusion efforts of a number of Smithsonian museums through my talk. Likewise, it was tremendously gratifying to see that so many museum professionals were thinking about Latina/o visitor engagement and eager to improve their own institution’s relationship with this growing demographic group.
A NOTE FROM PROFESSOR KAREN HUTZEL Verónica completed her master’s of art degree in art education with a specialization in museum education with Professor James Sanders as her advisor and subsequently, with strong faculty support and endorsement, became a PhD student in the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy. I’ve been honored to advise her, admiring her growth as a young scholar, an influential educator and a museum administrator. Within the department, Verónica’s research and teaching has matured from a master’s thesis to candidacy writing, and now on the precipice of ground-breaking research highlighting the voices of Latina/o visitors to encyclopedic art museums. The outcomes of her dissertation research will certainly make not only a scholarly impact, but a practical one, as well, with potential to influence the practices of art museums around the country.
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AAEP’S APA PROGRAM CONTINUES TO PRODUCE TOP RESEARCHERS IN ITS FIELD The arts policy and administration (APA) program continues to uphold its reputation for research, as one of the top five programs in the world. Founded in 1997, the MA program has produced 83 graduates with 79 percent placement in the field. The department has graduated 30 PhDs with a concentration in cultural policy and arts management with 74 percent confirmed academic and professional placements in their field. This program’s excellence was most recently evident at the Social Theory, Politics and the Arts (STP&A) conference, which took place this year in Adelaide, Australia. STP&A is the oldest and one of the most respected and influential academic gatherings of researchers and practitioners in the field of arts management and cultural policy. At the 2015 conference, many AAEP alumni presented their research, including Eleanora Radaelli (PhD, 2008), Patricia Dewey (PhD, 2004), Rachel Shane (PhD, 2006), WoongJo Chang (PhD, 2011), James Marchant (PhD, 2010), Insul Kim (PhD, 2011), Hyesun Shin (PhD, 2015) and many others. Rachel Shane has just become one of four executive editors of the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society (JAMLS) — one of the leading journals in the field. Eleanora Radaelli has become the book review editor. These promotions mark the changing of a generation at JAMLS, as professors Margaret Wyszomirski, Ann Galligan, Kevin Mulcahy and Stefan Toepler pass the baton to the next generation of executive editorial leadership after 20 years of service. Every year, this conference features an award to the best graduate paper. This year, there was a particularly strong field of graduate presentations, so a runner up award was also given. The winner was a graduate student of Insul Kim’s, while the runner up was a graduate student of WoongJo Chang.
The AAEP program allowed me to follow my passion for cultural policy and arts management while also satisfying my other academic interests. I still miss all AAEP people for their intellectual and emotional support. AAEP rocks! {Insul Kim, (PhD, 2011)} The Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy wants to recognize Professor Margaret Wyszomirski for continuing to cultivate this lineage of excellence, and to commend her for her contributions to making this program internationally competitive. Similarly, the department recognizes the insight and commitment of Professor Wayne Lawson. The field reputation of APA students from the department is also a testament to the mentorship and expertise that Professor Lawson has brought to the APA program. In addition to a long and distinguished public service career as an arts policy administrator and leader, Professor Lawson has taught in the department for more than 15 years and has guided numerous students in their thesis and dissertation work as well as provided them with an wonderful international learning experience through his intensive study trips to Chile.
Margaret Wyszomirski (second from right) with a group of alumni and colleagues at the 2015 Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference in Adelaide, Australia
FOCUS ON MA: OMARTHAN CLARKE CONTINUES HIS ART PRACTICE AS HE COMPLETES DEGREE
Omar’s Tomorrow Again, as it appears on the façade of 1204 N. High St., part of the Short North Arts District temporary mural series, BLANK SPACES
Omarthan Clarke is a master’s student in the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy majoring in arts policy and administration. He works as a graduate teaching assistant and intends to graduate in 2017. Born in Jamaica and raised in the United States, Omar uses his diverse background and creativity to make both his artwork and his work in arts policy relevant. His mother is his role model. She left Jamaica in the 1980s to give Omar and his two siblings the opportunity to be safe and secure while providing access to a good education. She worked hard to make sure they understood that wherever they go, they represent both their family and their Jamaican heritage. When asked how the department is helping him to achieve his goals, Omar replied: “The knowledge and skill base I am developing in this program is critical. I want to establish a
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non-profit international, public arts and academic institution in both Jamaica and the United States that fuses creativity with entrepreuneurship. In this program, the fusion of arts, arts integration and public policy and entrepreneurship theories helps me work toward my goals. This program is especially important to teach me ways to approach the culturally and politically sensitive positions I may find myself in as a practitioner and researcher. I really want to build bridges between international communities and generate more opportunities for cultural exchange and arts-based partnerships.” Visiting Omar’s studio in the Millworks Art Studios facility on Leonard Avenue is an eye-opening experience. This facility is home to more than 60 artists with a wide range of incomes. Its mission includes art, education, and supporting small businesses. Omar opened his Millworks studio in January
Omar in his Millworks Art Studio
2015 after hearing about it from another artist. Omar’s large airy studio, filled with paints, brushes, paper and canvases, has become a second home for Omar, who spends at least 15 hours per week working in his studio. Having a studio while also studying arts policy and administration is important to Omar so that one side of his personality can activate the other. “It’s great because I can be working on a culturally charged painting, then slide my chair right over to add some thoughts to an essay I am working on. Often, the content for one informs the other.” One of Omar’s paintings, called Tomorrow Again (see photograph at left), gives viewers a glimpse into what makes Omar tick. In the image stands a Sankofa, a mythical bird with an egg in its mouth. Its head is turned backward toward the past while it moves onward, delicately nurturing the future.
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The bird represents me in many ways. Looking at the past and moving into the future — I’ve learned that how we shape our future depends on what we have learned about our family’s history. It’s also about nurturing our creativity.
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FOCUS ON PHD: CHRISTOPHER JEANSONNE SPECIALIZES IN ART EDUCATION AND COMICS By Christopher Jeansonne One of my primary research interests is in comics. With its long and rich history of combining texts and images, the medium of comics can be a great focal point for exploring the kinds of multimodal literacies crucial to understanding the contemporary mediascape. This past year has given me some amazing opportunities to think about comics in arts education and interdisciplinary contexts. In July, I presented my research at the 6th Annual International Comics and Medicine Conference, a gathering of researchers in the field of “graphic medicine,” an interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore how the medium of comics can interact with health care concerns. This is a sub field of narrative medicine, which is described as an array of practices that “fortifies clinical practice with the narrative competence to recognize, absorb, metabolize, interpret and be moved by stories of illness” (www.narrativemedicine.org). Professor Jared Gardner (Ohio State Department of English) introduced me to this field in his advanced graphic narrative seminar. Gardner was giving a keynote address at the conference, and when we discussed my proposed class project, he suggested that I submit it as a proposal for the conference. My project, entitled “Immunity, Community, Communication, Comics and Vaccination,” relies on a unique set of relationships: My sister-in-law Susan Jeansonne is an ER pediatrician writing a novel depicting the struggles of two neighboring families that hold very different points of view regarding vaccination. My wife Amy Jeansonne is a biologist and educator who often teaches about the mechanisms of vaccination. A former media arts student of mine Savanna Ganucheau is a professional comic artist. My younger brother Bradley Jeansonne is a video game concept artist/illustrator with whom I’ve previously collaborated
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Christopher Jeansonne (pictured) commissioned Bradley Jeansonne to adapt Susan Jeansonne’s novel using a conceptually driven approach, in a visual style informed by his work in video games
on comics projects. And I am a media artist/educator and doctoral student in arts education and a recent father. I commissioned Savanna and Bradley to do adaptations in comics form of a short section of my sister-in-law’s novel, and then compared the way the two artists worked with the material. Throughout this process I was engaged in conversations and interviews with novelist/pediatrician Susan and biologist/educator Amy about the way that vaccination is portrayed in the media. We discussed how difficult communication becomes with such a polarized topic, with anti-vaccinators and pro-vaccinators each accusing the other side of being stupid for not holding their viewpoint. In her novel, which Susan sees as educative, she wanted the narrative to have a non-judgmental and respectful tone. As she put it, “Sometimes people are afraid to
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have a discussion with their physician because they are afraid they’ll be judged as a bad parent. There is a notion that those who don’t vaccinate are simply ignorant, but that’s just not true. In the development of my story, I wanted to make sure that I made both of my characters bright, intelligent and knowledgeable.” I evaluated to what extent the visual approaches to this topic affect the understanding of the narrative. Would the visual renderings lend themselves to a non-judgmental tone, or would they imbue the narrative with an emotive or ideological content? I found the techniques of cartooning and visual iconography used in comics have a great deal of flexibility, allowing for an expressive, characterdriven approach such as that seen in Savanna’s adaptation, or a more conceptually driven, metaphorically rich approach such as Bradley’s. This project, and the chance to present at the conference, has been an incredible opportunity to think about the power of comics from multiple perspectives. The conference itself included an amazingly supportive and eclectic group of comic scholars, comic artists and narrative medicine scholars For me, the experience was invaluable. My attendance at the conference was made possible through an Ohio State Ray Travel Grant from the Council of Graduate Students, as well as by supplemental support from the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy. I’d also like to thank Professor Gardner, my advisor Professor Shari Savage and my student colleague Kelsi Stoltenow for their help in preparing for the conference. Savanna Ganucheau’s visual style, influenced by both American independent comics and manga, lends itself to an adaptation that emphasizes character relationships aaep.osu.edu
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Students collaborate on the class “Stranger to Neighbor” video project
I learned what it means to communicate with people who have different cultures and languages. We needed perseverance, understanding and trust. {Hyunju Kim, who connected with students through Ethiopian Tewahedo Social Services}
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by Hyunju Kim My encounters with refugees in my volunteer work at Columbus Global Academy have caused me to wonder what it means to live as a refugee in Columbus, Ohio, in 2015. Refugees have little agency in defining their representation in American society. They are labeled by certain images as defined by others or the media regardless of the truth or desire of these people. For example, refugees are often described as “uprooted” or “people at risk.” Many African refugees are misidentified as Somali regardless of their different facial features and skin tones because a majority of African refugees in the Columbus area are from Somalia. This and other, often unintentional errors betray our ignorance and indifference. As an art educator, I endeavor to address this ignorance, dispel the notion of refugees as one assimilated group, and initiate conversation between refugees and Americans. I use art for this purpose.
Hyunju Kim, PhD candidate, prepares studio for class
In summer 2015, I taught refugee teenagers movie editing and production techniques, to enable them to talk about their stories from their perspectives. I worked with three Ethiopian students and one Congolese student who were 14, 16 and 20 years old. They had been in America for seven months, three years, and 14 years respectively. The students and I produced three short movies about the following issues: nostalgia for a home country, African and American school memories, and differences between Ethiopians and Somali. It was a great challenge for the students to learn how to manipulate video editing software and cameras because it was many students’ first time being exposed to such technologies. Interestingly, students experienced the greatest difficulty thinking about what they wanted to tell and how to develop ideas. My students did not believe their stories were important, and sometimes questioned whether people would ever be interested in viewing short films about their lives. They were not sure if their efforts to overcome many challenges would be meaningful.
On the screening day, Aug. 5, 2015, students’ stories were warmly and passionately welcomed by the audience. In the survey we distributed, audience members explained that they liked the personal feeling of each movie and that each video helped them understand more about refugees. This project created a productive space for Americans to learn about refugee experiences, and allowed refugee teenagers to experience new forms of creative expression and recognize the value of their individual stories.
RECOGNIZING THE GENEROSITY OF SIDI GLUCK by Deborah Smith-Shank, chair and professor AAEP would like to recognize the generosity of Sidi Gluck, BS in art education (1963), MA in art (1968) and MFA in drawing, painting, graphics (1971), whose commitment to the mission of our department has never wavered in the years since her completion of her degree from our department. Sidi is establishing the Sidi Grünstein Gluck and Peter Gluck Endowed Scholarship in the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy to provide scholarship funds for art educators. On Feb. 7, I visited Sidi Gluck at her California residence to connect with her over her time at Ohio State, only to discover the incredible life story she had to share. An Auschwitz survivor for whom a strong commitment to the critical importance of education was instilled early on, Sidi spent many years at Ohio State pursuing her love of art and art education to further social justice through artistic expression. She went on to teach art in both Ohio and California.
(L-R) Deborah Smith-Shank, chair of AAEP, visits Sidi Gluck at her home in California
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On behalf of the department, I would like to take this time to recognize how much the generosity of Sidi Gluck will enrich and enhance our programming and the education we can offer, elevating AAEP to new heights of excellence. We can never fully express our gratitude to alumni and friends like Sidi for their generosity and support, but we continue to feel it resonate in the accomplishments of our students. Thank you Sidi!
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AWARDS & RECOGNITION UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS BAE students Noelle Klein and Mumushu Sitot were awarded John Fergus Family Fund Scholarship Awards, for the strength of their visual artwork. Their work was exhibited at the Urban Arts Space in Columbus in January 2015. Alyssa von Reuter received The Beverly Baer Endowed Scholarship Award, established in 2003 by Wiliam D. and Thomas N. Baer for art education majors who demonstrate strong social consciousness and utilization of art for the betterment of society. Trina Langsenkamp received The Sara Jane Pyne Memorial Scholarship Award, established in 1981, for students who demonstrate exceptional promise and potential for service in the visual arts.
STUDENTS AND ALUMNI PhD candidates Verónica Betancourt and Christopher Jeansonne were awarded Council of Graduate Students’ Edward J. Ray Travel Awards for Scholarship and Service. Verónica will present “Learning from Latina/os: An Intersectional Analysis of Visitor Experiences in Art Museums and Writing that Works: Intentional Pedagogy for your Diverse and Internationalized University Classroom,” with alumna Ruth Smith, at the 2016 NAEA National Convention in Chicago. Christopher presented “Immunity, Community, Communication, Comics, and Vaccination” at this year’s Comics and Medicine Conference in Riverside, California. Verónica Betancourt was also recognized by the Graduate School with an Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship to be used for the transcription of data for her dissertation, “Visiting while Latina/o: An Intersectional Analysis of the Experiences of Subjectivity among Latina/o Visitors to Encyclopedic Art Museums.” She is also the 2016 Barkan Award recipient. PhD candidate Jimin Cha received an Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences. Jimin will present her paper, “Two narratives of globalization; reading the K-Art with public and private lenses”, at the College Art Association conference in Washington, DC. Jason Cox, PhD, (pictured top of page with department chair) received the 2015 Manuel Barkan Dissertation Award, which honors a PhD candidate with the most promising first three chapters of a dissertation as determined by the faculty.
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Jason delivered the lecture, “Educational Communities, ArtsBased Inquiry, & Role-Playing” to an audience of department graduate students, faculty, alumni and community members at the 2015 Barkan & Marantz award ceremony. Alumnus and CEO of Dublin Arts Council David Guion, PhD, was named an Oswald Smart 50 business leader for his work in expanding and diversifying the creative influence of Dublin Arts Council in Central Ohio.
PhD candidate Christopher Jeansonne received an NAEA Caucus on Social Theory in Arts Education Graduate Student Award. He will deliver two presentations at the NAEA conference in Chicago in March, “Leaping Off the Page and Screen: Superheroes in the Classroom,” and “PostModernisms from the Past: Ambiguous Identities in George Herriman’s Krazy Kat Comics.” Christopher Jeansonne also received a Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant from the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association to support his “The Question of Technology in the Marvel Cinematic Universe” presentation at PCA/ACA’s March 2016 conference in Seattle. PhD student Hyunju Kim is the recipient of the prestigious Imagining America 20152016 JGS Photo and Digital Media Fellowship Award for her leadership in facilitating media arts experiences with Columbus-area refugees. At the Reimagining America national conference in Baltimore, Hyunju contributed to a national conversation on digital media’s application in facilitating community interventions.
Professor Christine Ballengee Morris (at far left) was recognized as one of Columbus’ 2016 Women of Achievement by YWCA Columbus for her local and national work with the Native American earthworks, and involvement with Ohio State’s American Indian Studies program and Multicultural Center. She will be formally honored at a Greater Columbus Convention Center luncheon in April.
PhD student Ahran Koo has been awarded a 2015-2016 Albert Schweitzer Fellowship for her philanthropic work with Korean-American elementary school students. Ahran also received an NAEA Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education Graduate Research Award for her work with service-learning art programs in Korea, and an Arts Initiative Barbara & Sheldon Pinchuk Arts Community Outreach Grant, to launch a community visual art-making project at Graham Expeditionary Middle School. PhD student Kelsi Stoltenow was selected by the University Center for the Advancement of Teaching for a 2015-2016 Graduate Teaching Fellowship Award. Alumna Amanda Alexander, PhD (currently an assistant professor at the University of Texas-Arlington), was selected NAEA’s Western Region Higher Educator of the Year award.
Emeritus Professor Vesta Daniel received the 2015 Maryl Fletcher de Jong Service Award from the NAEA Women’s Caucus for “noteworthy contributions as an advocate of equity for women and all people who encounter injustice.” She was also appointed to a three-year term on the Editorial Review Board of Art Education Journal. Senior Lecturer Clayton Funk was awarded a competitive Office of Distance Education and eLearning Book Launch Grant toward his development of an eBook of online activities for AAEP 1600, Art and Music since 1945. Assistant Professor Shoshanah Goldberg-Miller received a College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching Grant Award for her collaborative design of The City as Art, which she will teach alongside Kyle Ezell, associate professor of city and regional planning. Professor Wayne Lawson was awarded the Siddens Distinguished Faculty Advising Award for excellence in graduate student advising at the 43rd Annual Graduate School Award Ceremony. Professor Jim Sanders was elected chair of the Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate for the 2016-2017 academic year.
Alumna Connie DeJong, PhD, (pictured above, far left, with Sylvia Marantz and Deborah Smith-Shank) received the Kenneth A. Marantz Distinguished Alumni Award, selected by the current AAEP graduate students for her inspiring work in international fair trade.
Professor Deborah Smith-Shank was one of three scholars chosen by the United States Society for Education through Art Fellows Nominating Committee for a Kenneth Marantz Distinguished Fellowship Award for her service and leadership contributions to the field of culturally inclusive art education. She also received the 2016 NAEA Women’s Caucus June King McFee Award for exceptional lifetime achievements in art education, and was elected president of the Semiotic Society of America. Professor Candace Stout was recognized for mentoring College of Education & Human Ecology student athlete Heidi Liou at the Annual Athletic Department Faculty Appreciation Dinner. Professor Stout advised Heidi in her narrative and photographic research on young adult cancer survivors.
FACULTY Assistant Professors Joni Acuff and Shari Savage were awarded the Arts and Humanities Larger Grant to develop the 2015 Arts & Autism Conference. This conference brought together more than 100 parents, teachers, specialists, practitioners and artists to engage in dialogue and informationsharing, and was lauded as a tremendous success.
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Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, associate professor and director of the Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise, was named a 2015-2016 Fellow for the OSTEP Community on Internationalization of the Curriculum. She also received a 2015 Creative Control Festival Award for Creative Change, and a 2015 Teamwork Award from the College of Arts and Sciences Campus Campaign Planning Team.
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PLAN TO ATTEND THE 2016 BARNETT SYMPOSIUM The Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy presents the biannual Barnett Symposium on the Arts & Public Policy, with presentations that address the theme, Planning Creative Cities: Global Trends, Local Action. The Barnett Symposium began in 1993, to provide an in-depth inquiry and analysis of public, private and non-profit sector policies and practices. The symposium gives Ohio State students the opportunity to network with key leaders in the public, private and nonprofit fields. Presenters will share their experiences as leaders in arts foundations, arts councils and creative city planners. BARNETT SYMPOSIUM 2016: PLANNING CREATIVE CITIES: GLOBAL TRENDS, LOCAL ACTION MAY 11 Ohio State’s Hopkins Hall Gallery opening – Creative Placemaking Now MAY 12 Full day of presentations followed by a reception at the Columbus Museum of Art, located at 480 East Broad St. KEYNOTE SPEAKER Lee Fisher, President and CEO, CEOs for Cities For more information and registration visit our website — aaep.osu.edu/research/resources/2016-barnett-symposium
This year’s symposium will focus on the culturally creative city. Lee Fisher, president and CEO of CEOs for Cities, will present the keynote titled “The Secret Sauce of the Creative City.” Eleven nationally and internationally known plenary speakers are also featured. Three interactive panel discussions will explore arts and cultural entrepreneurship, creative placemaking and celebrating heritage. These topics encourage constituents to create strategic goals for ensuring sustainability and social inclusion in urban centers worldwide. The symposium will highlight the intersection of arts entrepreneurship, urban planning and heritage preservation, and will advance our understanding of how the creative economy contributes to cities and regions locally, nationally and globally. This event is made possible by a generous endowment from the estate of Lawrence and Isabel Barnett, whose commitment to educating and preparing students for successful careers in the arts and related entrepreneurial fields is unsurpassed. This year’s collaborators include: the City and Regional Planning Section of the Knowlton School of Architecture, and The Great Placemakers Lab at the German Village Society. In addition, this event is made possible through the generous support of the Columbus Museum of Art, Greater Columbus Arts Council and Hilton Hotels and Resorts.