Kevin Michael Tavin

Department of Art Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
37 South Wabash Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60630
Tel: 312/629-9185



EDUCATION

• Doctor of Philosophy in Art Education with a Minor in Curriculum and Instruction, The Pennsylvania State University. May 2003. Dissertation: A Critical Pedagogy of Visual Culture as Art Education: Toward a Performative Inter/Hypertextual Practice

• Master of Education in Art Education, Towson State University. May 1996.

• Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education, Maryland Institute College of Art. May 1990.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor, fall 1999-present. Director of Master of Arts in Teaching Program, fall 2002-present. Director of Art Education Certification, fall 1999-fall 2002. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Art Education.

• Visiting Professor, The Ohio State University. July 2003, July 2004.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University. 1996-1999.

• Art Instructor K-5, Waverly Elementary School, Howard County, Maryland. 1990-1996.

• Art Instructor, Maryland Institute College of Art. 1994-1995.


SELECTED REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Tavin, K. (in press). Hauntological shifts: Fear and loathing of popular (visual) culture. Studies in Art Education.

Tavin, K. & Hausman, J. (2004). Art education and visual culture in the age of globalization. Art Education, 57(5), 47-52.

Tavin, K. (2003). Wrestling with angels, searching for ghosts: Toward a critical pedagogy of visual culture. Studies in Art Education, 44(3), 197-213.

Tavin, K., & Anderson, D. (2003). Teaching (popular) visual culture: Deconstructing Disney in the elementary art classroom. Art Education, 56(3), 21-23/32-35.

Tavin, K., Lovelace, L., Stabler, A., & Maxam, J. (2003). From Bucktown to Niketown: Doing visual cultural studies, Chicago style. The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 23, 60-88.

Boughton, D., Freedman, K., Hausman, J., Hicks, L., Madeja, S., Metcalf, S., Rayala, M., Smith-Shank, D., Stankiewicz, M., Stuhr, P., Tavin, K., & Vallance, E. (2002). Art

Education and Visual Culture. NAEA Advisory. Reston: NAEA.

Tavin, K. (2002). Engaging advertisements: Looking for meaning in and through art education. Visual Arts Research, 28(2), 38-47.

Tavin, K. (2001). Swimming up-stream in the jean pool: Developing a pedagogy towards critical citizenship in visual culture. The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 21, 129-158.

Tavin, K. (2000) Just doing it: Towards a critical thinking of visual culture. In D. Weil and H. Anderson

(Eds.), Perspectives in critical thinking: Essays by teachers in theory and practice (pp.187-211).

Tavin, K. (2000). The impact of visual culture on art education: Teaching in and through visual culture. The Journalof Multicultural and Cross-Cultural Research in Art Education, 18(1) 20-23/37-40.


SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS

International Level (Juried Papers)

• The International Society for Education through Art, 6th European Regional Congress, Stockholm, Sweden. August 2003.


National Level (Juried Papers)

• The Visual Culture of Childhood: Child Art after Modernism, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Curing the Modernist Hangover in Art Education: Postmodern Approaches to Cultural Production by Children and Youth. November 2004.

• Objects in/and Visual Culture, Pennsylvania State University, University Park,

PA. Repurposing Visual Culture in the Public Sphere: Toward a Polycentric Pedagogy of Everyday Space (co-presenter with John Ploof). March 2004.


The National Art Education Association Annual Convention:

Five presentations, Denver, April 2004; Two presentations, Minneapolis, April 2003; One presentation, Miami, March 2002; Two presentations, New York, March 2001; Five presentations, Los Angeles, March 2000; Two presentations, Washington D.C., March 1999; One presentation, Chicago, April 1998; Three presentations, Baltimore, April 1994.


Invited Workshops and other Presentations

Coordinator and Moderator: Gathering and Trespassing: Interdisciplinary and Critical Investigations of Visual Culture, Ohio State University, Columbus. November 2004.


Presented papers and workshops at over 40 national, state, and local gatherings including The American Art Therapy Association, The Wisconsin Art Education Association, The Illinois Art Education Association, The Pennsylvania Art Education Association, The Maryland Art Education Association, Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, University of Cincinnati, University of Illinois, Pennsylvania GovernorŐs Institute for Arts, The Museum of Contemporary Art, and numerous school districts in Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.


SELECTED PROFESSIONAL FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Art Education, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. December 2004-August 2005.

• 2004 Manuel Barkan Memorial Award, National Art Education Association. Denver, April 2004.

Graduate Assistant Award for Outstanding Teaching, sponsored jointly by the Graduate School, - the Office of the Vice-Provost, and Dean for Undergraduate Education, The Pennsylvania State University. March 1999.

Outstanding Art Educator of the Year, Maryland Art Education Association. Howard County, Maryland. October 1994.

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