Faculty
Dr. Lynn Beudert is Professor of Art and has taught at the University of Arizona since 1989. A native of England, her teaching and research interests focus on art teacher education and specifically on preparing pre-service teachers, the lives of faculty art teacher educators, and international arts teacher education. She is also interested in issues related to care and social justice within visual art classrooms and other educational settings. She has published and presented nationally and internationally on art and arts teacher education issues. Her recent book, Work, Pedagogy and Change: Foundations for the Art Teacher Educator, was published in 2006. She has served on various editorial boards, including Studies in Art Education. She has served as Chair of the National Art Education Association’s (NAEA) Research Commission. Her awards include the NAEA’s National Higher Education Art Educator of the Year Award and the NAEA's Pacific Region Higher Education Art Educator Award. She is a recipient of the College of Fine Arts Charles and Irene Putman Award for Excellence in Teaching. She became a NAEA Distinguished Fellow in 2009. Professor Beudert can be reached at ART 134, or 626.7639, or email lynng@email.arizona.edu
Dr. Elizabeth Garber (Ph.D., The Ohio State University, M.F.A., University of Arizona) is Professor of Art. Her research is focused on feminist, multicultural, and social justice issues in art education, on community and public art, and on craft education. Underlying and uniting these interests is a commitment to exploring the links between art/artifacts and culture and particularly the links between art/ artifact and social justice. Her work has been widely published in journals and anthologies and she has been a featured speaker at many universities and conferences. Recent publications include chapters on social issues in art and visual culture education for the International Handbook of Research in Arts Education, on feminist art and dance education in Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity through Education, and on Arlene Raven’s feminist and lesbian contributions to art education. Work in press includes articles on Mexican visual culture for the second edition of Art, Culture, and Ethnicity, on Commodity Fetishism for Matter matters: Art Education and Material Culture Studies, and on arts-based research in art, craft, and design for Studies in Art Education, co-written with John White and Charles Garoian. She is Past-President of the Women's Caucus of the National Art Education Association, as well as a reviewer for several journals. She served as Fulbright Professor to the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, during fall 2000. Among her awards are Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association, the Pacific Region Higher Education Art Educator, the Roy and Stardust Johnson Mentoring Award, the Mary J. Rouse Award from the Women’s Caucus of the NAEA, and the Kenneth A. Marantz Distinguished Alumni Award. Professor Garber can be reached at 132 Art, (520) 626.3399, or email egarber@email.arizona.edu [visit Dr. Garber's website]
Dr. Marissa McClure (BA University of Pennsylvania, MA University of Arizona, PhD Penn State University) is an Assistant Professor of Art. She has taught at the elementary and preschool levels throughout the United States in urban and rural schools and museums as an art teacher, a reading teacher, and as a general classroom teacher. As a researcher and teacher, she is interested in contemporary and historical theories of child art; constructions of childhood; children and visual and media culture; children as individual and group learners; relationships between art, play, learning, and teaching; critical theory in art education theory and practice; early childhood education; and pedagogical documentation as research methodology. In particular, she has studied the Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Education and its ateliers. She has presented and published at and in various national and international conferences, journals, and texts. She currently serves as president-elect of the Early Childhood Issues Group of the National Art Education Association. She can be reached at 138 Art, or 520.626.0419 or email mam3@email.arizona.edu.
Dr. Ryan Shin (MA, PhD Florida State, 2002) is an Assistant Professor of Art. His research focuses on cyber culture, visual culture art education, Asian folk and performance art, cross-cultural research on teacher education, and K-12 school culture. His articles have appeared in Visual Arts Research, Journal of Cross-Cultural Research in Art Education, and NAEA Advisory. He actively presents at state, national, and international conferences. Dr. Shin teaches foundations of art and visual culture education, museum education, and cross-cultural/multi-cultural issues in art and visual culture education, into which he integrates experiences with new technologies. He can be reached at 136 Art, or 621.1253, or email shin@email.arizona.edu.
