Category Archives: Publications

The first issue of Visual Inquiry: Learning & Teaching Art has been published recently by Intellect Books.  Dan Serig, Chair of Art Education,  is one of the editors.

Visual Inquiry is a forum to be reflective on the process of creating and teaching art, embrace teaching art in a variety of contexts, engage art appreciation experiences, share scholarship in teaching artistry, and celebrate the rich traditions of art making and teaching.

Our own  John Crowe wrote the Preface  for this eagerly awaited book on Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB).   John Giordano also appears in the book in regard to the application of TAB to after school programs.

This dynamic resource details the philosophy, rationale, and implementation of choice-based authentic art education in elementary and middle schools. To do the work of artists, children need opportunities to behave, think, and perform as artists. The heart of this curriculum is to facilitate independent learning in studio centers designed to support student choices in subject matter and media. The authors address theory, instruction, assessment, and advocacy in a user-friendly format that includes color photos of classroom set-ups and student work, sample demonstrations, and reflections on activities.

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Judith Nies, who formerly led the Writing Forum for MSAE students working on their thesis, has a new book out, The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties.   This memoir combines Judith’s personal history with the political and cultural history of the sixties and the women’s movement.

In the cover photo Judith is seen returning by ship from Europe in 1966, with a Master’s in International Studies, ready to begin her career.  She was soon to find out how limited her options were as a woman and in the coming years became a pioneer feminist.

Judith’s other books include Nine Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition, which has been in print for thirty years, and Native American History.

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Dan Serig’s new book!
Visual Metaphor and the Contemporary Artist:
Ways of Thinking and Making

In this book, Dan investigates the practices and exhibition of contemporary artists to understand how they create meaning. This in-depth look at one aspect of artists’ work will be of interest to people seeking an example of alternative approaches to empirical research that includes studio practices, as well as those interested in the intersection of cognition and art.

Jennifer Hall, Professor in the Art Education Department, is included in a new publication, Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women, and Feminism.

Co-editited by Karen E. Frostig and Kathy A. Halamka, the book features fourteen detailed and well-documented feminist histories that narrate a number of pertinent strands of activism regarding feminist art, scholarship, and organizational development while exploring current crossroads.

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