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Art of Teaching: Heather Fountain, Ed.M.’97

By Rachael Apfel 03/19/2013 03:39 pm | Add a Comment

Heather Fountain has turned her childhood ambition into a acclaimed career, teaching art education courses to graduate and undergraduate students — as well as to special education and elementary education students — at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Read More…

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The Drawing Mind

By Deborah Putnoi, Ed.M.'92 01/22/2013 04:04 pm | Add a Comment

Deborah Putnoi, Ed.M.’92, is looking for ways to bring drawing into the heart of classroom learning; not as a way to develop artists, but as a thinking skill, as a language that could help students solve problems. (From “Ed.” magazine.) Read More…

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Question & Answer: Jessica Delforge, AIE’12

By newseditor 05/09/2012 08:00 am | Add a Comment

Jessica Delforge was looking for some answers. That’s why she chose to take a break from her teaching job at a charter school and enroll in the Arts in Education Program at HGSE. Read More…

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Models of Excellence

By Jill Anderson 12/02/2011 02:43 pm | 3 Comments

Years ago, Ron Berger, Ed.M.’90, began collecting superior samples of student project work with the hope of sharing it as a model for educators of what good work looks like. Photo: Ron Berger (right) with Lecturer Steve Seidel. Read More…

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Art, Architecture, and Activism at Askwith Forum

By Jill Anderson 10/28/2011 02:37 pm | 5 Comments

At last week’s Askwith Forum, key players in the development – Ellen Baxter of Broadway Housing Communities; artist, writer, and educator Faith Ringgold; and architect David Adjaye – spoke about integral components in designing the Sugar Hill Project. Read More…

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All That Jazz: Eric Oberstein

By Katy Kroll 08/10/2011 11:15 am | Add a Comment

As executive director of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, the New York–based nonprofit that supports the work of the Grammy award-winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Eric Oberstein, Ed.M.’10, oversees the performance, education, and preservation efforts of big band Latin jazz. Read More…

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Outside the Box: Mark Leach

By Jill Anderson 06/20/2011 02:05 pm | Add a Comment

Mark Leach, Ed.M.’87, is executive director at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in North Carolina — a non-collecting institution that aims to enhance perspectives, inspire community, and ignite new ideas. Read More…

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Anna West, AIE’11: A Passion for Spoken Word Poetry

By Newseditor 05/16/2011 04:29 pm | 7 Comments

Anna West, 2011 AIE Intellectual Contribution/Faculty Tribute Award winner, came to the Arts in Education Program in order to step back, gain perspective, and “sharpen my writing pencil,” she says. Read More…

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To Great Comic Effect: Ed.D. Candidate Paul Kuttner

By Jill Anderson 04/13/2011 12:14 pm | 11 Comments

It isn’t every day that, when flipping through the latest academic research, you come across comic drawings. That is, unless it’s the research of Ed.D. candidate Paul Kuttner. Read More…

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Creative Thinking: Katrina Sarson, Ed.M.’03

By Katy Kroll 01/21/2011 03:18 pm | Add a Comment

When Katrina Sarson decided to go back to school, she already had a decade of experience under her belt as a TV producer. But what she really wanted to do was merge this experience with her other interest: arts in education. Read More…

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