- Frank Boyer
- Margaret Johnson
- Susan Miiller
- Jessica Poser
- Kim Schwartzhoff
- Karen Sickles
- Ann Teed
- Alice Wexler
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Frank Boyer |
Office Hours: by appointment the half-hour before and after class. |
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Margaret Johnson |
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Professor Johnson teaches courses in art criticism, art curriculum development, and instructional strategies. She writes about methods of art criticism, art criticism at the middle school level, and early childhood art. She has also done extensive work in curriculum development at the state level in South Carolina. Professor Johnson's writing in these areas has been published in the Journal of Aesthetic Education, Young Children, School Arts, and Art Education. Her most recent publication is an article about early childhood literacy, "Developing Verbal and Visual Literacy through Experiences in the Visual Arts" (Young Children, the professional journal of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, January 2008). Earlier, she co-authored a book on early childhood learning in art, "The Colors of Learning: Integrating the Arts into the Early Childhood Curriculum" (Teachers College Press, 2003).
Professor Johnson has presented at many art education and early childhood education conferences and regularly conducts art criticism methods workshops for teachers. She has also received several awards for her contributions to the field of art education. She was recently named National Art Education Association (NAEA) Eastern Region Art Educator of the Year (2008). She has also been honored at the national level as the NAEA Higher Education Division Art Educator of the Year (1995) and NAEA Southeastern Region Art Educator of the Year (1992). She served as President and President-Elect and program chair of the South Carolina Art Education Association (1991-1993). She has also served on the Board of Directors of the National Art Education Association as Eastern Region Vice President.
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Susan Miiller |
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Jessica Poser |
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Kim Schwartzhoff |
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Karen Sickles |
Office Hours: lunch most days between 12:00 and 1:00pm |
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Ann Teed |
Office Hours: or by appointment |
Ann Teed is the instructor for the Art Education field experience courses and student teaching seminar. She has more than two decades of experience teaching art and special education in a range of private and public sectors. She has been involved in a number of community outreach programs in the Mid Hudson area, including DIA Beacon, Mill Street Loft, and Dutchess Art Camp. She served as coordinator of educational programming for children for eight years at Dutchess Community College.
In addition to her work in visual arts, Ann Teed has worked in the areas of music and performance arts as a professional family entertainer. In 1999, she received a National Parents Choice Gold Award for her children's album entitled "The Shooting Star Express - A Journey to the Land of Imagination." She writes about interdisciplinary arts-based curricula as well as integrating visual and performing arts within the elementary classroom.
Ann Teed is an alumna of SUNY New Paltz where she earned a B.S. in Art Education and an M.S. in Special Education.
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Alice Wexler |
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Professor Wexler teaches courses in studio methods and artistic development, instructional resources in art education, and art for exceptional children and adults. Her research focuses on the art making practices of exceptional children and adults, and on the integration of text and image in art works made by children and adolescents. Professor Wexler's writing in these areas has been published in Studies in Art Education and Art Education. She is currently at work on a book based on children with special needs in alternative settings.
Professor Wexler has presented on her research nationally and has received awards in support of her work, including a Faculty Development Award to support her research on the art of exceptional adults at the G.R.A.C.E. facility in Vermont (2001). Professor Wexler, a painter, has exhibited extensively. She received an award for her painting from the National Arts Club (1995).
Professor Wexler received a B.F.A. from Boston University, an M.F.A. from the Royal College of Art, and an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University.
