Welcome to GRAE 2024!
The Graduate Research in Art Education (GRAE) Conference provides a forum for doctoral students from Penn State University, Ohio State University and Teachers College to discuss issues and developments in art education that are being opened up by their dissertation research. Since 2005, the GRAE Conference takes place each fall semester in a rotation at one of the participating institutions. An archive of previous GRAE meetings can be found at this link.
We are honored to welcome doctoral student presenters and faculty from the three institutions, and excited to celebrate the homecoming of two TC doctoral alumni serving as conference respondents. The conference will be held in person in the Smith Learning Theatre* at Teachers College Columbia University.
The GRAE Conference was established in 2005 by Karen Keifer-Boyd & Graeme Sullivan.
*The Smith Learning Theater is located on the 4th floor of The Gottesman Libraries.
STUDENT PRESENTERS AND THEIR FACULTY DO NOT NEED TO REGISTER.
If you would like to attend GRAE register below.
(Zoom option available to Penn State and Ohio State attendees.)
Meet our Respondents
Rébecca Bourgault
Associate Professor and Chair of Art Education, Boston University
Rébecca Bourgault, MFA, EdD, is an associate professor and chair of Art Education at Boston University. A visual artist, educator and scholar, her research focuses on an expanded view of art education that encompasses lifelong becoming, socially engaged art practices and approaches to arts research that explore transdisciplinary, translingual and holistic ways of knowing. Recent work includes a co-edited volume on contemporary arts research (2024, Brill/Sense) and a co-edited collection of life stories about arts and aging (2024, Routledge, NAEA). Her research has been included in edited volumes such as Sustaining Community: Stories of Adaptation and Re-emergence (2024), Cultivating Critical Conversations in Art Education (2023), Art as an Agent of Social Change (2020), and Wiley Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Art and Design (2019). Recent articles appeared in the Journal of Transformative Education, the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, the International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education, and Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal.
Elected to the North American World Council for the International Society for Education through Arts (InSEA) in 2022-2023, she is an associate editor for the International Journal of Education Through Art and an active member, contributor, reviewer, and juror for art education organizations.
Ashley Mask
Assistant Professor, Art & Museum Education, Western Washington University
Ashley Mask is an artist, art and museum educator, professor, and researcher-scholar, as well as a mother, a daughter, a sister, and a life partner. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art and Museum Education at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. She previously led the Education Departments at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, Colorado and taught at Columbia University, Naropa University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. Her research interests include pathways into art and museum education professions, anti-racist work in museums, and creative practices as pedagogy. She has taught pre-service art education, museum studies, museum education, photography, and leadership studies courses at several universities, and she has worked with a variety of community arts organizations as a curator, researcher, and evaluator. She holds an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University, an M.S.Ed. from Bank Street College, an M.F.A from the University of Delaware, and a B.F.A. from the University of Montevallo.