Vermeersch, Lode
Lode Vermeersch holds a Ph.D. in Educational Sciences and an advanced Master’s degree in Cultural Studies. He currently is a research expert at HIVA-KU-Leuven (Research Institute for Work and Society of the University of Leuven). Lode joined HIVA-KULeuven in March 2007. Lode has also been affiliated with the Department of Educational Sciences at VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen. Lode has been involved in numerous research projects. Most of his research publications are in the fi eld of lifelong learning and non-formal adult education, arts and cultural education, museum education, cultural theory and cultural policy, literacy (visual literacy, cultural literacy, multiliteracies, low-literacy, etc.). His work is published in a range of edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Visual Literacy and the Arts Education Policy Review.
Brown, Robert
Dr. Robert Brown is a senior lecturer in the Graduate School of Education at The University of Melbourne. His ongoing research interests are interconnected and include: child, youth and family engagement, artful pedagogies, creativity and play, cultural citizenship and teacher reflective practice. Drawing from
methodologies including participatory action research, narrative inquiry and ethnography, Robert has led multi-disciplinary projects centred on young people’s arts-based engagement and learning in early childhood, school and community contexts. Robert’s current research is focused on how artists, museum educators and teachers engage young people museums, galleries and other cultural institutions.
Quay, John
John Quay is an associate professor in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Th e University of Melbourne, Australia. His research and teaching draw insights from philosophy of education to inform educational practice in areas including but not limited to outdoor education, physical education and environmental education. His books include Education, Experience and Existence: Engaging Dewey, Peirce and Heidegger (New Directions in Philosophy of Education series, Routledge); and Understanding Life in School: From Academic Classroom to Outdoor Education (Palgrave Macmillan). With Jayson Seaman he has published John Dewey and Education Outdoors: Making Sense of the ‘Educational Situation’ Through More Than a Century of Progressive Reforms (Sense Publishers). With Jennifer Bleazby, Maurizio Toscano, Steven Stolz and Scott Webster he has edited Theory and Philosophy in Education Research: Methodological Dialogues. John’s recent research has involved collaborations
with Robert Brown, Marnee Watkins and Jennifer Andersen conducting empirical investigations designed to support practice improvements among organisations engaging with schools.
Wagner, Ernst
Ernst Wagner, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Akademie für Bildende Künste in München, Projekt BKKB: Bildkompetenz in der Kulturellen Bildung: „Was ist und wie fördert man Bildkompetenz?“ Entwicklung eines Messinstruments und Untersuchung der Unterrichtsqualität.
Vermeersch, Lode
Lode Vermeersch holds a Ph.D. in Educational Sciences and an advanced Master’s degree in Cultural Studies. He currently is a research expert at HIVA-KU-Leuven (Research Institute for Work and Society of the University of Leuven). Lode joined HIVA-KULeuven in March 2007. Lode has also been affiliated with the Department of Educational Sciences at VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen. Lode has been involved in numerous research projects. Most of his research publications are in the fi eld of lifelong learning and non-formal adult education, arts and cultural education, museum education, cultural theory and cultural policy, literacy (visual literacy, cultural literacy, multiliteracies, low-literacy, etc.). His work is published in a range of edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Visual Literacy and the Arts Education Policy Review.
Kolb, Barbara
Barbara Kolb studied Art Education, Art History and Psychology at Augsburg University, Germany. Already during her studies she worked in the field of contemporary art mediation on numerous occasions. From 2003 to 2007 she curated various temporary exhibitions at the Museum of “The Augsburger Puppenkiste” and developed along with that innovative educational programs. Since 2009 she has been Head of Education at the State Textile and Industry Museum in Augsburg. In this function she has been developing participatory projects as well as curating temporary exhibitions. She has published on the role of didactics in contemporary museums.
Roßkopf, Claudia
Claudia Roßkopf studied Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics in Mainz and Vienna, graduating with a thesis about “Th e power of culture” – foreign cultural policy between claim and reality, using the example of the Goethe-Institut La Paz. She has been working at different museums, e.g. in charge of the exhibition and the education program at GRIMM WORLD Kassel (2013–2017). As academic associate at the Department of Cultural Policy, University of Hildesheim, she is doing research on art museums in digital space and participating in the interdisciplinary research project Rez@Kultur about digitization in arts education, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. She is coordinator of the Network of Arts Education Research (www.
forschung-kulturelle-bildung.de).
Otten, Holger
Holger Otten M.A. studied Art History, German Philology and Modern History in Cologne and Basel. Since 2010, he has worked as curator and from 2010–2019 he was Director of Art Mediation at the Ludwig Forum for International Art in Aachen. In 2017, together with Andreas Beitin and Brigitte Franzen, he was awarded the Justus Bier Prize for Curators.
Kiyonaga, Nobumasa
Dr. Nobumasa Kiyonaga is Professor of Art Theory in the Faculty of Art of the University of East Asia in Shimonoseki, Japan. Following a degree in Social Studies for School Education, Art Education and Art Science at the University of Yamaguchi and Hiroshima University, Dr. Kiyonaga completed his doctorate under the supervision of Wolfgang Legler in the Department of Educational Science at the University of Hamburg in 2007 with his thesis on “Alfred Lichtwark: Art Education as Cultural Politics” (Munich, Kopaed Publishers, 2008). He has worked at the University of East Asia since 2011. His research focuses on the areas of the development of discourse on Aesthetic Education, or Art Education, Cultural Education in Contemporary Germany and the History of Art and Cultural Politics in the German Empire.
Mathiesen, Frants
Frants Mathiesen, Ass. Lecturer, UCC, University College Copenhagen. Educated in Art History, History (University of Copenhagen) and Visual Art Education (University of Aarhus) and teacher (Hellerup Seminarium). Head of the working group for the Visual Art Curriculum in the Public School for the Danish Ministry of Education 2013–2014 and 2018–2019. Member of the editorial Board of the Magazine, Billedpaedagogisk Tidsskrift, published by the Danish Art Teachers Association 2015.
Wenrich, Rainer
Rainer Wenrich studied Art History, Philosophy and German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Painting/Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, achieved a Ph.D. on the topic of Art and Fashion in the 20th century. He is a Professor and Chair for Art Education and Art Didactics at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt. He lectured as a Professor for Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. He is the author of articles and books in the field of art education and fashion studies. In 2016 he joined the editorial advisory board of The Journal of Dress History published by the Association of Dress Historians.
Andersen, Jennifer
Dr. Jennifer Andersen is a theatre maker, arts educator and researcher. Her theatre-making practice is centred around creative exchanges with children and families in community settings. Jennifer is a drama lecturer at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne. She has worked on numerous research projects there investigating actor practice, out-of-school arts education experiences and pedagogies, and narrative inquiry.
Kennedy, Brian P.
Brian P. Kennedy is Executive Director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. He was President, Director and CEO of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio from 2010–2019. From 2005–2010, Kennedy was director of Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, New Hampshire. Prior to coming to the United States, Kennedy spent seven years as director of the National Gallery of Australia (1997–2004) in Canberra and eight years as assistant director of the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin (1989–1997). Born in Dublin, Ireland, Kennedy studied Art History at University College Dublin, earning a bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree. Kennedy is an art historian, curator and author.
Fulková, Marie
Dr. Marie Fulková is associate professor and Head of the Department of Art Education, Faculty of Education, Charles University, Prague. Her research focuses on exploring ways in which the cultural artefacts function as a polysemy across different social domains. Her research activities cover visual literacy and modalities of perception of visual arts in children and youths, transpositions between artistic, cultural and pedagogical domains and creative interactions between education and visual arts. She designs contemporary art experiences, educative programs and curricula for galleries and museums. She has published books on gallery and museum education and numerous articles in journals. She is a leader of the Visual Literacy Research Group under project PROGRES Q17 supported by Charles University.
Van Even, Priscilla
Priscilla Van Even holds a Master degree in Philosophy, a Master degree in Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies, a Teaching Degree in Philosophy and Social Sciences and a Professional Bachelor degree in Elementary Education. She worked as a researcher at the Meaningful Interactions Lab at the University of Leuven and participated in the RETINA-project: a research project that explores how digital technologies can support visual literacy practices of young people in art and design museums. Priscilla is an experienced anthropological fi eldworker and currently teaches research methodology at the University of Leuven. She also works as a museum guide in the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels.
Murr, Karl Borromäus
Karl Borromäus Murr was educated in History, Philosophy and Ethnology at the universities of Munich, Oxford (St Edmund Hall), Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and Cambridge, MA (Harvard University). In 2005 he received his Ph.D. in History from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU), Germany. In 2009 he was appointed director of the State Textile and Industry Museum Augsburg. Since 2015 he is a board member and since 2019 the chairman of the European Museum Academy. Since 2005 he has been teaching history, ethnology and museology at the LMU and the University of Augsburg. He has been a member of various advisory boards as well as he has been a consultant to international museum projects. He has published widely on history, art history, ethnology and museum studies.
Jurica, Ivan
Ivan Jurica is art educator and artist (Study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, postgraduate study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava). Since 2006 he is art educator at the mumok (Museum of Modern Arts Foundation Ludwig), Vienna. He works at the conjunction of art, history and politics. In the recent years he participated in several collective as well as individual projects on art, education and anti-racism. His activities focus on the analysis of power structures within art, politics and society, history writing and West-East (East-West) relations. His text and comments were published in diverse media and blogs in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany and Italy.
Deetsch, Mike
Mike Deetsch joined the Toledo Museum of Art staff in 2013 as assistant director of education. In 2015 he was named the Emma Leah Bippus director of education and engagement, overseeing the docent program, art classes, and museum curriculum. Prior to joining the staff at TMA, Deetsch served as a senior museum educator at the Brooklyn Museum, the exhibition and programs director at the Lexington Art League, and the student programs manager at the Kentucky Historical Society. In 2012 he was selected to participate in the Getty Leadership Institute’s NextGen program. Deetsch received his M.S. in Art Education from the Pratt Institute and a B.A. in Art History from Hanover College.
Eschenfelder, Chantal
Chantal Eschenfelder studied Art history, German and American studies. After achieving a Ph.D., she became a project manager for Culture and New Media at the European Office of the City of Cologne and has been employed as a scientific consultant for the Museum Ludwig, the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and the Museum für Angewandte Kunst at the Museum Service Cologne. Since 2007 she has been Head of Education at the Städel Museum and the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, and since 2011 also at the SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT. She considers the process of opening up cultural institutions to all spheres of society an important aim of her work. Currently she tackles this issue also working at the Städel Museum’s digital think tank. Furthermore, she has been Head of Digital Collection at Städel Museum since 2013. In 2015, she and her team won the Grimme Online Award for their Monet Digitorial®.
Stockley, Michele
Michele Stockley is the Head of Learning at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. In this role, Michele works with a team of educators and audience engagement specialists to develop, deliver and evaluate a wide range of learning programs and projects for diverse audiences, including school students and teachers of all levels. As a gallery educator, Michele has a particular interest in practices and pedagogies that inspire and empower audiences to engage with art in personally meaningful and rewarding ways.
Wagner, Ernst
Ernst Wagner, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Akademie für Bildende Künste in München, Projekt BKKB: Bildkompetenz in der Kulturellen Bildung: „Was ist und wie fördert man Bildkompetenz?“ Entwicklung eines Messinstruments und Untersuchung der Unterrichtsqualität.
Carpreau, Peter
Peter Carpreau is the curator in charge of the Old Masters and collection department of the M-Museum, Leuven. At M, he was also responsible for the reinstallation of the collection presentation in 2017. Carpreau studied art history at the KULeuven and the Sorbonne, Paris IV. His research focuses on perception, visual literacy, and the value of art. Recent exhibitions include ‘Power and Beauty, the Arenbergs’ (2018), ‘Crossing Borders: Medieval Sculpture from the Low Countries’ (2017), ‘Edgard Tytgat, Memory of a much-loved window’ (2017) and ‘Michiel Coxcie, The Flemish Rafael’ (2013).
Meister, Jochen
Jochen Meister M.A., born in 1967, has been Head of the Department of Art Mediation and the Visitor Service of the Bavarian State Painting Collections since 2011. He studied Art History at the Free University of Berlin and has been involved in numerous projects in the area of exhibitions and art promotion. One of the key areas of focus in his work concerns the interface between the museum and the public, particularly within the sphere of intercultural and interdisciplinary programmes.
Wenrich, Rainer
Rainer Wenrich studied Art History, Philosophy and German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Painting/Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, achieved a Ph.D. on the topic of Art and Fashion in the 20th century. He is a Professor and Chair for Art Education and Art Didactics at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt. He lectured as a Professor for Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. He is the author of articles and books in the field of art education and fashion studies. In 2016 he joined the editorial advisory board of The Journal of Dress History published by the Association of Dress Historians.
