Higher Education Division Report

The Art of Listening

I spent the last half of the spring semester and the beginning of the summer observing and interviewing a variety of hardworking, dedicated, and effective K-12 art teachers working in a variety of contexts throughout NAEA’s four regional divisions for a book project I’m working on with Renee Sandell. The book’s working title is Real Lives 21: Showcasing the Stories of Art Educators and Contemporary Learning. The project is meant to serve as sequel to Tom Anderson’s similarly titled, Real Lives: Art Teachers and the Cultures of School (2000), although we also drew inspiration from other texts that share the inner workings of successful art programs (Hurwitz, 1972) or the life stories of selected art teachers (Hickman, 2011; Stout, 2002).

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Leadership Team

• Jeff Broome, Division Director, jbroome@fsu.edu
• Amy Pfeiler-Wunder, Division Director-Elect, wunder@kutztown.edu

Regional Directors:

• Eastern Region: Adriane Pereira, apereira@mica.edu
• Southeastern Region: Justin P. Sutters, jsutters@gmu.edu
• Western Region: Joni Boyd Acuff, acuff.12@osu.edu
• Pacific Region: Amber Ward, amber.ward@csus.edu