Experience

  • 15 years in classroom teaching

  • 24 years as a high school art teacher, art supervisor, Title One Director, College professor in Art, and Director of Art Education

  • 15 years as an artist specializing in Fiber Design and Multimedia Arts

  • 15 Years as an author writing art educational materials and preparing art statements for cards and articles

Education

  • Graduate Studies – Blackburn College 1937

  • B.S. Education – Greenville College 1950

  • Masters Degree – Southern Illinois University 1958

  • University of Guadalajara, Mexico 1971

  • Salzberg College, Austria 1974

  • Jones Studio, Wales 1985

  • Metchosin International Art School, Canada 1985

Lifetime Continuing Education

  • University of Illinois, 1935

  • University of Idaho Moscow, 1948

  • University of Colorado, 1959

  • University of Rhode Island, 1964

  • Professional Institute Richmond, 1965

  • Northern Illinois University, 1966,1967,1974

  • Southern Illinois University, 1966

  • John Herrin Art Institute, 1965

  • University of Tennessee, 1987

  • Florida State University, 1968

  • University of Arizona, 1971

  • Haystack School of Art, 1978

  • International Correspondence School, 1978

  • Penland School of Crafts, 1979

  • Central Indiana University, 1980

  • Nantucket School of Design and Arts, 1980

  • Miami University, 1981

  • Bennington College, 1987

  • Southern Utah State College, 1988

  • Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, 1989

  • St. John’s College, 1990

Professional Associations & Present Affiliations

  • National Art Education Association

  • Illinois Art Education Association

  • American Craft’s Council

  • Downstate Art Teacher’s Association

  • American Association of University Women

  • State Art Advisory Council

  • Art Institute of Chicago

  • Fox Valley Art Association

  • Elgin Art Council

  • Association of Elgin School Administrators

  • Chairman–Goals and Priorities Committee, U-46

  • The Alliance for the Arts

  • Illinois Council on Ethnicity in Education

  • Practitioners and Acting to Involve Research and Improvement in Education (PRAIRIE)

  • Commission for Cultural Affairs

  • Surface Design Association

  • Tohono Chul

  • American Association of University Women

  • National Retired Art Teacher’s Association

  • National Museum, Women in the Arts

  • Tucson Museum of Art, Pima County Art Commission

  • National Surface Design Association

  • National Retired Teacher’s Association

  • American Association of Retired Persons

  • Council of American Embroiderers

Personal Achievements

  • Originator of The Awareness Program in Art Education, School District U-46

  • Author of a publicized article in Art Teacher entitled, “Common Denominators”

  • Member of two behavioral institutes held in St. Louis and New York

  • Selected to work in the Art Education Evaluation Program at Florida State University in 1968 and to deal with Art for the Academically Talented at Northern Illinois University in 1966

  • Held several offices in the Illinois Art Education Association and the National Art Education Association

  • Speaker at thew Dallas N.A.E.A. Conference concerning the Awareness Program and Institute Planner in Chicago for N.A.E.A. 1974

  • Speaker at the N.A.E.A. Conference in Miami concerning Performance Based Education in 1975

  • One of the authors of Art Education: Middle / Junior High School

  • Cited in Who’s Who in America – School Officials

  • Author of Chapter VI in Behavioral Emphasis in Art Education, published by the N.A.E.A.

  • Author of three Title One publications: The Way an Object is Built, Cities, and Visiting a Museum

  • Reactor in N.A.E.A. publication, Issues

  • Contributor in the A.S.C.D. publication (1968) entitled Instructional Innovation in Illinois