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Laura H. Chapman is a consultant and writer on arts education based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her teaching experience, ranging from preschool to adults, spans rural, suburban and inner-city schools. She has taught in the undergraduate and graduate art education programs at Indiana University, The Ohio State University, University of Illinois and University of Cincinnati. She has a special interest in pre-K–12 art education in public schools and related issues in teacher education, curriculum and assessment.
Laura has been a consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts, National Assessment of Educational Progress in Art, Educational Testing Service, National Instructional Television, KnowledgeWorks and several educational programs of The J. Paul Getty Trust, among others. She has given invited addresses, seminars and workshops in more than 40 states, Canada, Australia, England, Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands and New Zealand. Selected writings have been translated into Modern Greek, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese and Dutch.
In 2000, a national panel selected her Instant Art, Instant Culture: The Unspoken Policy for American Schools (1982) as a "Book of the Century in Education." In recent lectures and writing Laura has addressed the No Child Left Behind Act, national initiatives in education policy and issues in advocacy.
