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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 frommethodologies 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.
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).
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.
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®.
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.
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.
