Notes on Contributors
Hashim Al-Azzam
studied Fine Arts, specialized in painting in Irbid - Jordan and Art Pedagogy, Art History and Classical Archeology at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen â Germany. He holds a PhD in art education. His doctoral dissertation is titled âSculpture as Transcultural Education: Artistic Action as Transcultural Educationâ. His research is focused on theory and practice of transcultural education and on the philosophy of art, as well as on the Islamic and Western art history. His artworks have participated in several (solo)-exhibitions held in Jordan and Germany.
Dennis Atkinson
is Professor Emeritus at Goldsmiths University of London, Department of Educational Studies and the Centre for the Arts and Learning. He is a visiting professor at the Universities of Porto, Gothenberg and Barcelona. He was the Principal Editor of The International Journal of Art and Design Education from 2002â2009. He has published six books, including Art in Education: Identity and Practice; Art, Equality and Learning: Pedagogies against the State and Art, Disobedience and Ethics: Adventures of Pedagogy. In 2015 he was awarded The Ziegfeld Award by The United States Society for Education through Art for outstanding international contributions to art in education.
John Baldacchino
is Professor of Art & Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He served as faculty at Warwick, Robert Gordon, Falmouth and Dundee universities in Britain and at Teachers College Columbia University in New York. Focusing on art, philosophy and education, to date he authored fourteen books. These include Education Beyond Education (Peter Lang 2009) Makings of the Sea (Gorgias 2010) Artâs Way Out (Sense 2012), John Dewey (Springer 2014), Art as Unlearning (Routledge 2019) and Educing Ivan Illich: Reform, Contingency and Disestablishment (Peter Lang 2020). He edited Histories and Philosophies, being volume 1 of the International Encyclopedia of Art and Design Education (Wiley 2019).
Bazon Brock
is Emeritus Professor of Aesthetics and Cultural Education at the Bergische Universität in Wuppertal, Germany. Additional professorships at Hamburg University of Fine Arts (1965â1976) and the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (1977â1980). In 1992 he was awarded an honorary doctorate at ETH (Swiss Federal Institute for Technology, Zurich) and in 2012 at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe. Since 2014 he is Honorary Professor for Prophecy at HBKsaar (University of Arts Saar), Saarbrücken and in 2016 he was awarded the Von der Heydt-Prize of the city of Wuppertal. In 2017 he received the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class. He developed the method of âAction Teachingâ, in which the seminar hall becomes a place for staging oneself and others. From 1968 until 1992 he launched the documenta-schools for visitors. From 2010â2013 he implemented courses for professional citizens at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (Rector: Peter Sloterdijk). In 2011 he founded the Denkerei/für Arbeit an unlösbaren Problemen und MaÃnahmen der hohen Hand (Society for Working on Unsolveable Problems and Measures of Higher Authority) in Berlin (www.bazonbrock.de, www.denkerei-berlin.de). His most recent publications are: Lustmarsch durchs Theoriegelände â Musealisiert Euch! (2008); Mann mit Mission (12 DVDs, 2010); Der Profi-Bürger (2011, ed., with Peter Sloterdijk); Theoreme: Er lebte, liebte, lehrte und starb. Was hat er sich dabei gedacht? (ed. by Marina Sawall, 2017).
Carl-Peter Buschkühle
is Prof.Dr., studied art, philosophy, and educational sciences in Wuppertal and Cologne. After teaching art and philosophy on a gymnasium he became professor for art education: 2000â2007 at the University of Education in Heidelberg, since 2007 at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen. His research focus is on theory and practice of an artistic art education and on philosophy of art. His most recent book is Joseph Beuys and the Artistic Education (Brill | Sense, 2020). His intermedia-artworks are shown in international exhibitions; from 2015â2018 he was president of the European Regional Council of InSEA (International Society of Education through Art).
Sahin Celikten
studied art at the Anatolian Fine Arts High School in Diyarbakir, Turkey. Subsequently he studied for a BA degree of art education at Marmara University in Istanbul, focusing on painting, drawing, photography and graphics. In 2010/11 he received a grant for an academic semester at the University of Giessen, Germany. There he achieved a Masterâs degree in art education in 2012/13. In 2013 Celikten had a solo exhibition showing his overpainted photographs at the Galerie am Dom in Frankfurt. He also participated in group exhibitions at the Cultural Circle Meschede e. V. and at the art fair Art Karlsruhe in 2014. Up until 2018 he used his knowledge of arts and education to work at one of the largest German accommodations for refugees in Giessen after the crisis of 2015/16. As of 2018 he works as a teacher at the Waldorfschule in Bad Nauheim.
Ana Dimke
has been professor in Art Education and Mediation at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) since 2016. From 2011 to 2016, she was President of the Academy of Fine Arts (HGB) in Leipzig and, from 2012 to 2016, Chair of the German Conference of Art School Presidents (RKK). From 2008 to 2010, she sat on the board of representatives of the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA). From 2007 to 2011, Ana Dimke was Vice President of the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and Dean of the College of Fine Arts. After completing her PhD on the artistic theory of Marcel Duchamp, she held a junior professorship in Art Didactics from 2002 to 2006 at the Department of Art and Design at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Ana Dimkeâs research interests include contemporary art theory, art mediation methodology and humanâanimal studies.
Brian James Grassom
is a practicing artist living and working near Aberdeen, Scotland. His work includes painting and sculpture, exploring both their interplay and that of aesthetic and narrative content. His PhD thesis engaged with the connections between art as an autonomous discourse and art as tacit philosophy. He has a special interest in art education, having taught as an art teacher in schools, and currently as the short-course painting tutor at Grayâs School of Art, Aberdeen. Brian also writes about art in relation to philosophy, with a number of academic papers and several book chapters published in that field. He is currently engaged in a personal project concerning art education.
Leena Hannula
is a PhD and has worked as the Head of education at the Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Finnish National Gallery. Her thesis concerned Lifelong learning at the museum. As co-founder of Pedaali (association of museum pedagogies) she is also the member of InSEAâs European Council and Finnish Board. Hannula has got international grants from Finland and abroad (Stockholm, Portugal and New York): studying museums, lecturing about school and museum programs and training. Hannula works as a special advisor in several museum projects for all ages developing both young and senior art education. She has been rewarded by the President of the Republic.
Brian Hughes
is Senior Creative Director at the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College Columbia University, where he collaborates on the production of video, software, and environmental components of the education program. Previous projects include the development of the Smith Learning Theater, the Seen in New York video series, the Pressible publishing platform, and the EdLab Art Commission. Dr. Hughesâ research focuses on the intersection of art, artistic traditions, and philosophical conceptions of excellence. He holds a B.A. in Studio Art from Dartmouth College, an M.A. in Philosophy and Education from Teachers College, and an Ed.D. in Art and Art Education from Teachers College.
jan jagodzinski
is Professor of Visual Art and Media Education, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is series editor for Educational Futures (Palgrave) and the author of 17 books. The most recent titles include: Arts Based Research: A Critique and Proposal (with Jason Wallin, Sense Publishers, 2013), The Precarious Future of Education (Palgrave, 2017), What is Art Education? After Deleuze and Guattari (Palgrave, 2017), Interrogating the Anthropocene: Ecology, Art, Pedagogy, the Future in Question (Springer-Palgrave, 2018), and Schizoanalytic Ventures at the End of the World: Film, Video, Art and Pedagogy (Springer-Palgrave, 2019).
Timo Jokela
is a Professor of Art Education in the University of Lapland in Finland. He is former dean of the Faculty of Art and Design (2009â2017). Currently he is a lead of University of Arcticâs thematic network on Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design (ASAD). Jokela has been responsible for several international and regional development and research projects in the field of art and design. His theoretical studies, artistic activities and art-based action research development project focus on relationship between northern cultures, art and nature. Latest edited books: Relate North. Art and Design for Education and Sustainability (2018, with G. Coutts), Visually provoking. Dissertation in Art Education (2018, with A. Sinner and R. Irwin), both published by Lapland University Press.
Mira Kallio-Tavin
is Associate Professor of Art-based Research and Pedagogy at the Aalto University, and the Head of Research in the Department of Art. Her research area focuses on critical artistic and arts-based practices and research in questions of diversity, disability studies, social justice and critical animal studies. She has developed arts-based research methodology within pedagogy and social context and in relation to the questions of dialogue, community, ethics and philosophy of contemporary art, and its education beyond anthropocentricism.
Joachim Kettel
is a visual artist and a Full Professor of Art and Didactics at the University of Education in Karlsruhe, Germany. He is a member of Deutscher Künstlerbund, Westdeutscher Künstlerbund and founding member of European Council of Artists (ECA), Copenhagen. As co-founder of the concept of artistic education (Künstlerische Bildung) he organized international conferences like âImaginary Hotel Leipzigâ (Leipzig, 1994); âTeaching Art?â (Wolfenbüttel/Braunschweig, 1997); âMapping Blind Spaces: Artistic Education beyond Pisa â New Paths between Art and Educationâ (ZKM Karlsruhe, 2004); International InSEA Research and Development Congress âhorizonte/horizons insea 2007 germanyâ (Heidelberg/Karlsruhe) and âThe Missing_LINK 2016. Transitional forms of art and education in cultural education. Artistic Art Education in Contextâ (Karlsruhe, 2016).
Guillermo Marini
is Associate Professor at the School of Education, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He holds a PhD in Philosophy and Education, Columbia University and an EdM in Arts in Education, Harvard University. His main research areas are philosophies in teacher education, everyday aesthetics and ways of knowing in education. He has published in the Journal of Aesthetic Education, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Visual Communication, International Journal of Education through Art, Trans/Form/Acao, and Educacao & Sociedade.
Catarina S. Martins
is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto and the Head of the Research Institute in Art, Design and Society, University of Porto. Her work is concerned with the politics of knowledge that historically articulate the arts as a school subject and how this relates with governing purposes. Currently her projects lie in the history of the making of the creative and developing child through the educational sciences from the 19th century onwards.
Joe Sacco
is a cartoonist and journalist specializing in political themes. Born in Malta, he moved with his family first to Melbourne and then Los Angeles, where he spent his childhood. He studied journalism at the University of Oregon. Sacco frequently chronicles his travels in works that have become well known in the field of comics journalism, including Palestine (1996), The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo (2003), and Footnotes in Gaza (2009). He has won several awards for his graphic work, including the American Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Ridenhour Book Prize.
Francisco Schwember
is artist, professor and curator. He has a Fine Arts degree (2001), an Art Teacher Training (2002), Master in Fine Arts (2010), and PhD in Education, from the Catholic University of Chile. He has participated in more than 60 exhibitions, both in Chile and abroad (New York, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Lima, Havana, Cape Town, Quito, Berlin, Vancouver, Guayaquil).
He has obtained different awards and distinctions, such as incasi (2018, 2019), fondart (2017), CONICYT Scholarship Advanced Human Capital Development (2014â2018), Artistic Creation Contest UC (2017), Creation and Artistic Culture Prize, Universidad Católica de Chile (DIPUC, 2005), vraid (2007, 2010, 2012, 2013) and fondedoc (2010), âTaller Exposición de Pintura Iberoamericanaâ (Spain, 2001), First Place Promotion 2001 in Bachelor of Arts, Honorary Scholarship for Academic Excellence Scholarship at the Catholic University of Chile in 1998 and 1999.
Juuso Tervo
works currently as a University Lecturer and the Director of University-Wide Art Studies at School of Arts, Design and Architecture at Aalto University, Finland. His research and writing combine historical, philosophical, and political inquiries in art and education, drawing from fields such as literary theory, poetics, theology, philosophy of education, and philosophy of history. He received his PhD in Arts Administration, Education and Policy from The Ohio State University in 2014, and since then has published in research journals and edited books both nationally and internationally.
Raphael Vella
is Associate Professor of Art Education at the University of Malta, where he heads the Department of Arts, Open Communities and Adult Education and coordinates art education degrees. He has published extensively about issues of identity, contemporary art, curatorial practices and education. Books include Artist-Teachers in Context: International Dialogues (Sense Publishers, 2016). He has also worked as a freelance curator with international artists and emerging artists in Malta and was co-curator of the Malta Pavilion at the Venice biennale in 2017. His art-work has been exhibited in several countries around the world.
Branka VujanoviÄ
is an art historian, researcher and curator. She holds a PhD in Cultural and Social Sciences from the Justus Liebig University Giessen, master degree in Art History from Belgrade University and specific master degree in Museum Studies and Critical Theory from the Universitat Autònoma Barcelona (UAB). She participated in the Graduate Centre for the Studies of Culture (GCSC) at the Justus Liebig University Giessen and in the Program of Independent Studies at the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (PEI-MACBA). She worked at the Art Centre Collegium artisticum Sarajevo and the gallery RocioSantaCruz Barcelona. She lives in Barcelona and Sarajevo.