Enacting Change
Member Interviews
Survey Blog
Interviews with members of the NAEA Women's Caucus demonstrate the variety of contributions to art education fostered through leadership, research, and pedagogy. Stage one of a new WC project initiated by Joanna Rees assembles a wide view of perspectives and relates perspectives to members' personal goals. (Click on the names below for individual responses to the surveys, which are posted with permission granted by each.) Those personal goals (aggregated as experiences, aspirations, cultural considerations, and shared and individual notions of identity as art educators) can inform ways to treat all art educators in fair and equitable ways. Current, previous, and future members are invited to continue from the interviews into a dialogue on enacting change. We are working toward developing an action plan to form a collective identity for socio-political mobilization of WC activism that began at NAEA WC Lobby Sessions in New Orleans in 2008, and Minneapolis in 2009.
Anonymous
Alison_Aune
Cynthia Colbert
Sylvia Corwin
Melanie Davenport
Read Diket
Nicole Gnezda
Anniina Suominen Guyas
Linda Hoeptner Poling
Karen Keifer-Boyd
Wanda B. Knight
Laurel Lampela
Lilly Lu
Cindy Maguire
Marjorie Manifold
Renee Sandell
Debbie Smith-Shank (blog)
Amy Brook Snider
Courtney Lee Weida
Enid Zimmerman
Interested members can contact Joanna Rees at reesjoanna@hotmail.com to schedule an interview by phone or complete the questionnaire through email.
Or, respond to these questions in a blog (coming soon) at the WC website.
- What is your educational background and where did you complete your Ph.D.? If you have not completed your Ph.D. please provide information on your highest level of education.
- What are your current research interests and contributions to art education?
- Could you describe your leadership style?
- Could you describe your teaching pedagogy?
- What are your contributions to Women's Caucus and women's issues in art education?
- Could you describe your current identity as a woman and art educator?
- How has this identity changed and grown over time?
- Have you ever felt held back or discriminated against because of your gender?
- Have you seen other professionals in the field discriminated against in educational workplaces?
- What changes would you like to enact in art education?
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Lobby Sessions
2010 NAEA WC Lobby Session: “What is the Image of a Feminist in the Field of Art Education Today?”
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2010
5-6 p.m. in the HOTEL LOBBY
Hilton Baltimore Hotel
The 2010 NAEA WC lobby session, facilitated by Karen Keifer-Boyd, Read Diket, and Joanna Rees, invites current, previous, future NAEA Women's Caucus (WC) members, as well as those who do not intend to join the NAEA WC to engage in a dialogue on the meaning, practices, and rejection of feminism in art education. Prior to the NAEA lobby session, even if you cannot attend, please respond anonymously to a 15-minute questionnaire, which is linked here.
The purpose of this survey is to learn of art educators' perceptions of and relationship to feminism in their work in the field of art education today. What are the reasons that art educators identify with or reject feminism? What are the differences of ideology and teaching practices between those who consider themselves to be feminists and those who don't? We will bring print-based copies of the findings from the survey to the 2010 WC lobby session to stimulate discussion.
Beyond the WC sessions, meetings, and events that reside within the formal protocol of the NAEA, the lobby session serves as an informal forum for political discussion and/action. Look for more specifics on the WC listserv, in emails to members, and on the WC Facebook site. Our plan for the WC lobby session 2010 is to take the first 10 minutes of the hour lobby session for those present to introduce themselves to people they have not met previously or do not know well, and to exchange contact information to meet each other during the conference, or later via email dialogue. The next 20 minutes allows participants to introduce themselves and respond to the 2010 lobby session question posed, "What is the Image of a Feminist in the Field of Art Education Today?" Given time, we will invite open discussion.
2009 Enacting Change: What We Can Learn From Each Other?
A group of 31 NAEA Women's Caucus members gathered from 5-6 p.m. in the Hilton Minneapolis Hotel lobby (see photos) to review the mission of the Women's Caucus with the following questions:
Some people have been involved with the Women's Caucus for a long time, and others are fairly new, or have not been involved for awhile.What can we learn from each other? What would you like to ask of each other? What do you think the role of the Women's Caucus is? What is it that we would like to see as our mission?
How do feminists view "rules" and "boundaries" across cultural difference and socio-political hierarchies intended to maintain order?
When are rules a matter of state, and when do these allude to human relationships of a global nature?
Does the Women's Caucus need a collective identity (e.g., a construct of "women")
or mission or coalition for socio-political mobilization?
Transcription of the NAEA WOMEN'S CAUCUS "ENACTING CHANGE" LOBBY SESSION
2008 Collaborative Publication: "Vote 2008: What Should an Art Educator Do?"
Organized by the NAEA Women's Caucus, a group of 16 art educators met at NAEA in New Orleans in 2008 to discuss relevant issues that build on the past, are of the present, and look to the future. This article is published in the July 2008 issue of the journal of Art Education (Copyright 2008. Used with permission of the National Art Education Association). See also New Orleans, March 27, 2008, 12-1 p.m. lobby session notes! ] |