At InSEA, we believe that art transforms people’s lives.
Gifts in Wills are an important and crucial source of funding, providing lasting support which will help to safeguard InSEA’s ability to enrich more people’s lives now and in the future. Remember InSEA in your will
There are many ways you can make a gift which is both simple and efficient:
Residuary: the amount left over after all other costs, for example, funeral expenses, have been deducted
Pecuniary: a fixed sum of money
Specific: a gift of a particular named item, for example, a painting, building or land
Reversionary: a gift to a loved one for use during his or her lifetime which can then be passed onto a specified charity after this time
Leaving a gift in your will is an effective lasting contribution without any immediate outlay. Legacies left to charities are free from inheritance tax, which means a legacy could result in your tax bill being reduced.
If you have already made a will, you can add an amendment, known as a codicil, which InSEA can provide for you. We do recommend that you consult with your legal advisor when deciding upon making a legacy.
By making a gift to InSEA, you are recognising the work that we do and the difference we make to people’s lives. No gift is too large or too small. Whatever the size, your gift can and will make a difference.
TALK TO US
Leaving a gift in your will is an important decision to make.
If you would like to find out more, or have an informal chat please contact the Treasurer, Secretary or President via the CONTACT US page.
Your gift will be treated with confidentiality and with sensitivity.
We hope to hear from you soon.
President
I'm a son, father, husband, brother, learner, artist, professor and president of InSEA, I studied at the Glasgow School of Art and the University of Strathclyde. I write regularly about issues in art and design education (articles, chapters, co-editor of the Relate North and series editor of Learning through Art series of books, principal editor of IJETA 2010-16). I support art for all and help people interested in art and education connect through the global community of InSEA. As president and in my work at the University I strive, to paraphrase Einstein, keep my balance by riding my bike.
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8541-4701
https://www.linkedin.com/in/glencoutts/
@glencouttsart
president.glencoutts[at]insea.org
World Councillor: Southeast Asia & the Pacific
Dr Kim Snepvangers is a Principal Fellow Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) and an Adjunct Professor at Southern Cross University. Kim is an award-winning educational leader in creative ecologies with expertise in industry partnerships at scale, recognised with a 2018 AAUT national citation and an inaugural research award from InSEA. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor and a Scientia Education Academy (SEA) Fellow at UNSW. Kim has exhibited her work internationally, co-edited 3 books and written over 20 book chapters and journal publications. Her research reimagines settler-colonial archives through practice-based artworks especially with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Mentors.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4592-8545.
SCU Profile: https://researchportal.scu.edu.au/esploro/profile/kim_snepvangers/overview
UNSW Profile: https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/associate-professor-kim-snepvangers
kim.snepvangers@gmail.com
World Councillor: Southeast Asia & the Pacific
Robert F. Hayden Jr. is the Dean of the School of Heritage Education at the Asian Institute of Maritime Studies. He’s the Past President of the Association of Cultural Offices in Philippine Educational Institutions, Inc. (ACOPEI), where the creative campus environment is one of the project highlights and a community that fosters culture and the arts as instruments to build a new, creative and productive society.
rfhaydenjr[at]gmail.com
InSEA Designer / Editor
Viola Rekvenyi
(Emerging Leader in Education through Art)
Amused by the combination of time and still image, Viola’s art is guided by the progressive trends and directions of our age. Her everyday is defined by taking in as well as creating art, becoming the base of her design or research projects. Utilising her diverse artistic degrees from the Glasgow School of Art’s Interaction Design (BDesHons) as well as Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design’s Animation (MA), along with studies at Concordia University in Montréal (Design and Computation Arts) and the University of Barcelona (Facultat de Belles Arts), she constantly widens her horizons and keeps discovering new directions to grow.
viola.rekvenyi[at]gmail.com
World Councillor: Africa & Middle East
Christiana Deliewen Afrikaner is coordinating arts and culture programs with communities and schools. Serves as Board chairperson of the Walvis Bay School of Arts, past vice-chairperson of the Namibia Craft Centre and board member of the Omaruru School of Arts. Panel member on the National Arts Curriculum Panel for three terms. Editorial Board member of IMAG.
I have successfully organized and chair the InSEA/SAEN seminar in Namibia. I’m a researcher and educator genuinely involved in arts education and endeavours towards attaining much as possible communities, schools, researchers, and artists through programs. To train community artists for assisting teaching arts in schools, is one of my intentions. I am working on the vision of exposing the Namibian arts fellowship to the international arts world.
deliewen[at]gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/deliewen
Chair: InSEA Asia Regional Council (Executive Board)
I hope to start “One Teacher One Course” project, that should support the development of Asian school art teachers, through collaboration with art education researchers, while providing the world with an Asian perspective on art education.
Asia has a strong tradition in art education that can contribute to diversity in our field. There are many art teachers who has been great in passing down Asian art traditions in the contemporary context of school art education. However, due to language barrier and lack of research methods, their experience remains regional and unknown to the academic world. I think ARC should take the responsibility to support them through collaborative research and provide resources for their publication, so that those precious Asian experience can be appreciated and shared in our field.
I believe this project is to unite Asian art educators for common good.
InSEA Archivist
Dr John Steers was General Secretary (Chief Executive) of the UK’s National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD) for 30 years until December 2011. In the 1960s he trained initially as a painter and potter and then as an art and design teacher at Goldsmiths, London. He was awarded the degree of Doctor in Philosophy by the University of Liverpool in 1994. He taught art and design in secondary schools in London and Bristol between 1966 and 1980. He was a member of the editorial board of the NSEAD’s International Journal of Art and Design Education (iJADE) from its inception in 1981 until his retirement in 2011. He has served on many national committees and as a consultant to government agencies. He has published widely – principally on curriculum, assessment, history and policy issues including, recently, two chapters for the forthcoming International Encyclopedia of Art and Design Education (Wiley).
World Councillor: Europe & Editor, IMAG
The aim of my enthusiasm is to continuously renew art education, assist to its adaptation to current professional and social requirements, support the decision-making process in educational matters as well as accumulate and spread knowledge concerning art education and its environment. As one of the IMAG Quartet:: (the group of PrincipalEditors&GraphicDesigner) I am working on InSEA’s most visual journal to share ideas and connect members. I am the director of the Art Teacher Master’s Program at ELTE TÓK University, head of Department of Visual Education and working at the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design in Budapest as well.
patakyella[at]gmail.com
World Councillor: Latin America
The importance of InSEA for Brazil begins with the beautiful story of Herbert Read who was in Brazil and caused the installation of the first Art School for childrens in 1948 with Noêmia Varela and Augusto Rodrigues. Since then, with a World Congress in Rio de Janeiro and with the remarkable presence of Ana Mae Barbosa, InSEA has become an important reference and support in the struggles for teaching art in our country.There is still a lot to be done in relation to Brazil, Latin America and in interaction with CLEA so that we can establish greater exchanges and connections between our research and our struggles. Issues related to general education, art education, culture mediation and the training of educators are important points that could generate joint actions.
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I believe that the Regional Congress in Chile can strengthen the presence of Latin America in the InSEA, with resonances at the next Congress organize by Ana Mae Barbosa in April 2019, of which I am part of the commission. I intend to expand the work just begun as a World Councilor for Latin America by establishing and deepening exchanges and research. In this sense, I hope to propose the formation of subgroups of work with specific focuses such as Educational Policies and National Curricula; History of Art Education in Latin America; Teacher Training in Art and Pedagogy; Cultural Mediation; etc.
World Councillor: North America
My name is Dr. Amanda Alexander, and I am currently a Professor and Chair of the Department of Art at Miami University of Ohio. My research includes exploring (inter)national and local community-based arts and learning, sustainable social and culture development, and social justice. I recently co-edited and published the InSEA endorsed, "Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art, Craft, and Visual Culture Education." I love to garden, read books, and listen to podcasts about the cosmos. My goals as a World Councilor have always been to support InSEA in any way possible. I believe strongly in the mission of InSEA and that bringing artistically-minded people together internationally creates a stronger global arts bond.
amandaa[at]uta.edu
World Councillor: Asia & Editor, IMAG
Maho is a researcher and art teacher. She is obsessed with drawing from everyday life, even though she felt uncomfortable with drawing when she was an art student. She is the self-proclaimed InSEA visual recorder who draws the councilors during our many serious meetings. Her current research is about teaching traditional craft and cultural identity in Japan. She investigates the mystery of craftsmanship and skilled knowledge in art and art education.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6819-5321
satomaho007[at]gmail.com
facebook.com/maho.sato.712
World Councillor: Asia
Yungshan Hung’s research interests include art and aesthetics education, curriculum study and art-based educational research.
Yungshan Hung is the Associate Research Fellow of the Center for Curriculum and Instruction, National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan(R.O.C.) Additionally, since 2015, as the Main Investigator of Asia-Pacific Office for Aesthetic Education, Yungshan has been engaged in long-term research of aesthetic education, built the national and international academic practice network, including signed MOU with InSEA. Yungshan would like to bring forward my experience in Art education research and practice and connecting and co-making LTA effort with InSEA community.
ireneh1220[at]mail.naer.edu.tw, ireneh1220[at]gmail.com
World Councillor: America Region
I am Mario Mogrovejo, artist and educator, as a member of InSEA I am interested in supporting the development of art/education in our
region through different actions such as congresses, seminars, webinars, publications, etc. as well as integrate members from all over
our great region to form a great Latin American art/education community.
latinamerica.mariomogrovejo[at]insea.org
Principal Editor IJETA
The International Journal of Education through Art [IJETA], is the English language journal that promotes relationships between art and education. The term ‘art education’ should be taken to include art, craft and design education. Each issue, published three times a year within a single volume, consists of peer-reviewed articles mainly in the form of research reports and critical essays, but may also include exhibition reviews and image-text features.
Particular emphasis is placed on articles that:
Critically reflect on the relationship between education and art
Propose original ways of rethinking the status of education and art education
Address the role of teaching and learning in either formal or informal educational contexts and alongside issues of age, gender and social background
Adopt an open and inventive interpretation of research-based analysis
Promote and experiment with visual/textual forms of representing art education activities, issues and research.
ijetaeditor.nadinekalin[at]insea.org
Chair European Regional Council
Dr. Ernst Wagner is lecturer and researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany, where he coordinates www.explore-vc.org. His further research focusses on Competence Models in Art Education, International Cooperation in the Context of Decolonizing Education, Education for Sustainable Development. Ernst studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and exhibited his art works in Germany and the USA. He graduated from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a PhD in Art History. He is chair of the Executive Board of the InSEA European Regional Council.
ernst[at]wagner-mchn.de
World Councillor: Europe
InSEA is the key organisation for promoting education through art and bringing people together globally, and as a World Councilor of InSEA I focus on research and network in Europe and world-wide. I work as Associate Professor of Art-based Research and Pedagogy, and I am the Head of Research in the Department of Art, in Aalto University. I focus my research on critical artistic and arts-based practices and research in questions of decolonialism, disability studies, social justice and critical animal studies. I am the author and editor of six books, and the chief editor of Research in Art Education.
mira.kallio-tavin[at]aalto.fi
Treasurer
Celia Ferreira is InSEA Treasurer and Membership Secretary (2019-2025) and an InSEA member since 2006. PhD Student in Child Studies-Artistic Education Specialty. MA in art Education. Post-Graduation in Pedagogical Supervision. Secondary school art teacher in Portugal.
Research interests: Education through art; textile art, handicrafts, community art and heritage.
treasurer.celiaferreira[at]insea.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9082-7014
Secretary
Dr. Patsey Bodkin is a lecturer in Art Education in the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in Dublin, Ireland. She is the coordinator of the Joint Honours BA in Education and Design or Fine Art programme. Prior to joining the School of Education, Patsey taught Art at second level for 20 years. She holds an Ed.D. from Dublin City University, and an M.Ed. from University College Dublin and carried out her undergraduate studies at the NCAD. Her specialisations and primary research interests are in the areas of Initial Teacher Education and the Continuing Professional Development of teachers.
secretary.insea[at]gmail.com
facebook.com/purplepatsey
Vice President
I am a Professor of Art Education, teach hand weaving, at the Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University, Egypt. I received my Ph.D through a channel program between University of Helwan and New York in 1993. The research was about designing a program to teach weaving through group work model. I am a member in national and international organizations and my research interests have spanned in-service arts education and fiber arts issues. I am an artist, researcher, and teacher deeply committed to the arts and education. I have been showing my art works in solo and group shows. I participated in many conferences nationally and internationally and working in group to make Insea more visible. I helped with my colleagues launching “ AmSea “ Africa & Middle East organization for Education through Arts in Cairo, April 2013, starting with 83 members from the region.
samiaelshaikh[at]hotmail.com
World Councillor: Africa & Middle East
PROFESSOR OF ART EDUCATION,
Helwan University, EGYPT,
CURRICULUM AND METHODOLOGY OF TEACHING MUSEUM EDUCATION AND DOCENT TRAINING
Got my BA. from Helwan university, art education college
Masaed masters of science in art education from Buffalo state college, New York, USA, acquired my PHD from Helwan university, CAIRO, Egypt, ascended for progressive degrees, associate professor and professor at Helwan university
Taught in three deferent countries, presented and shared research teams in more than ten countries
Worked as research development and innovation officer and EU contact focal point for Helwan university 2011-2018
Directed and managed museum of Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil and his wife for two years
Started the international grant office at Helwan university and student support unit for international funds and fellowships
solishaker[at]gmail.com
UNESCO Liaison
De nombreuses conférences et publications internationales portant sur la créativité, la question de l’artistique chez les élèves, la prise de risque en art, l’ audace, l' imaginaire, la sensibilité et l’esprit critique, l’art et l’émancipation du sujet, auteur/acteur, et une interrogation sur la singularité de chacun et l’accès à l’altérité.
De nombreuses interventions pour l’ouverture culturelle et l’accès à l’art auprès des musées, des structures partenaires afin de défendre le droit fondamental de tous à la culture et l’accès au patrimoine .
Une très grande implication sur les rapports entre l’art et les valeurs humaines, l’engagement, la compréhension entre les peuples, le métissage des cultures et le rôle de l’art en faveur de la paix.
Des écrits sur l’image et ses influences, sur la plasticité du langage liée à la culture et à la pratique (Praxis) comme expérience singulière. Au plan international un engagement au coeur de l’Insea et auprès de l’Unesco pour faire reconnaître le rôle de l’éducation artistique et culturelle en faveur de la paix, de l’environnement, d’un monde multiculturel.
Candidate for: Asia Region
I successfully completed my responsibilities at the president of Korea Art Education Association(KAEA), KoSEA, and Korean Association of Arts Education(KAAE), in order to communicate and network with the West as well as with Asia. I was a Chair of the 2007 Asian Regional Congress of InSEA, which was the first congress of InSEA in South Korea.
InSEA has a unique character in comparison with other art education associations. It promotes “diversity,” “peace,” and “harmony.” InSEA respects diversity in regions and communities and creates peace and harmony among art educators in the world. This mission encourages students and colleges to understand and develop the meanings of art education in their societies. In diverse societies, we can understand others through the mission of InSEA.
As an Asia World councillor, I hope to contribute as a member of publication board in the outstanding journal IJEtA. I will encourage Korean art educators to participate in global research and contribute to bridge between the West and the East. Additionally, I will organize diverse international conferences in Seoul National University with InSEA members of art education scholars.
I sincerely, want to be an Asia Region World Councilor for 2023-2025
InSEA Designer / Editor
Moira Douranou
(Emerging Leader in Education through Art)
Moira Douranou is a multidisciplinary designer and visual artist. She holds a master's degree in arctic art & design from the University of Lapland, Finland, and a bachelor’s degree in interior architecture, decorative arts & design from TEI of Athens, Greece. She has been participating in cross-disciplinary research projects on socially engaged practices (Common ground, ArtGear, Utopia Ltd.) since 2016 and she is working in networking organisations since 2018. Her interest lies on the tangible and intangible, human and non-human structures. She believes in people and networking in order to evoke, manage and achieve social change.
publicationsdesign.moira@insea.org
World Councillor: North America
As a native of Jamaica, I was formally educated in Jamaica, Mexico, and the United States. I taught and provided leadership in education administration for over 40 years, traveled and consulted in more than 30 countries in applying arts education to solve problems. These experiences guide my perspectives about the lives of people, their politics, their struggles, and their fight for justice, equality, diversity, and inclusions. I will bring these experiences to bear on InSEA’s policies and practices and reach out to my North America constituencies, listen and represent their voices, and work to address their issues with fellow councilors.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8939-5381
Vice President
Steve Willis teaches at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri USA. His research interests are in Native American practices, community engagement, and spirituality in art. He has served as a consultant, presented at national and international conferences, and has published nationally and internationally. As a contemporary artist, he creates images concerning spirituality (http://night4hawk.wixsite.com/stevewillis).
He is committed to raising awareness of contemporary art education practices and philosophies that develop educational experiences for all abilities, genders, sexualities, races, ethnicities, cultures, socio-economics, geographic locations, and spiritual backgrounds.
He is happily married. He has three children who are now amazing grown men, and four phenomenal teenage grandchildren – two boys and two girls. He worries about humanity and the environment.
stevewillis[at]missouristate.edu
Editor, IMAG
I strive to help future educators replenish their artistic identities, engage in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary learning, address environmental and social justice and help schools transform from traditional curriculum to integrated arts. At Saint Michael's College, Vermont, USA I coordinated Arts Education and taught courses on aesthetics, interdisciplinary curriculum, creativity, and environmental art. As visiting professor fall 2019 at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan I integrated arts with holistic education. I currently co-edit InSEA’s IMAG and section edit for InSEA’s Learning through Art #3. I maintain my artistic identity through ceramics, watercolors, and sculpture and sanity by baking bread and climbing mountains.
imag@insea.org
Vice President
I am an artist and a champion and activist for visual art education based in the UK. My remit is wide and view myself as a lifelong learner. I am a networker and connector who believes in the wisdom of crowds. Art is at the very core of human history and existence and my role is to remind everyone of that. You can find me on Twitter masquerading as @theartcriminal and also at www.artcrimes.org.uk. Email: susanmcoles@gmail.com. My mantra is 'Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away' (Maya Angelou).
vice-president.susancoles[at]insea.org
World Councillor: Latin America
About
INSEA es una de las organizaciones más relevantes y de mayor alcance internacional con relación a la educación por el arte. Acoge una interesante diversidad de enfoques y perspectivas en este campo, enriqueciéndolo y permitiendo la más amplia participación de investigadores, educadores, activistas y artistas.
INSEA incentiva y auspicia numerosas iniciativas y propuestas de carácter práctico, reflexivo y teórico, posibilitando la constitución de una variada red de colaboraciones y proyectos que trascienden los límites geográficos de los paises y regiones.
En este sentido, considero que todas las regiones deben estar representadas, aumentando así las posibilidades de articulación y acción de la organización. Esto sólo puede lograrse a través de una coordinación activa con los representantes regionales de INSEA y con el conjunto de sus miembros, y siendo elemento promotor y transmisor de la participación en los diferentes ámbitos y sentidos de la institución.
Past President
President of InSEA during 2014-2019; Vice-President during 2011- 2014; Member of the InSEA world Council during 2005- 2011. Assistant editor of the International Journal of Education Through Art during 2007- 2015. Principal Editor of InSEA visual journal IMAG during 2015- 2020 ( issues 1 to 10). Organized the InSEA world congress in 2006 and the European Regional Congress in 2015 in Portugal. Organized the InSEA seminars in Thessaloniki ; Walvis Bay in 2018 and in Malta in 2019. Collaborated with InSEA members in research projects on evaluation; inclusion; arts based research methods; participatory arts and design.
pastpresident[at]insea.org
World Councillor: SouthEast Asia & the Pacific
Dr Kathryn Coleman is an arts-based researcher, teacher. Kate is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Arts & Design Education, Co-Director UNESCO Observatory of Arts Education and Co-Editor, Journal of Artistic and Creative Education at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Kate practices at the intersection of art, digital spaces, practice, and culture, and teaches this through art and design education. Kate’s research into practice includes teacher practices, creative practices, practices of identity, knowledge as practice and digital practices. Kate is an active member of the Art Education Australia Council.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9885-9299
kathryn.coleman[at]unimelb.edu.au
World Councillor: Africa & Middle East
Sirine Abdelhedi is a cultural advisor based in Paris. Thanks to a triple academic curriculum in Cultural Project Management (Paris 8 university), Cultural Studies (Paris 1 – Pantheon Sorbonne university) and Communication (High Institute of Arts and Crafts of Sfax, Tunisia) and to her collaborations with different cultural organizations and consulting agencies, she expanded her skills in project management, international relations and partnerships in the cultural field with an expertise in contemporary art and museums.
She curated the exhibition Thanaya : entre plis et chemins of artist Najah Zarbout at the FRAC, Corsica (France) in the framework of Saison Africa2020.
Photo © Rock.raven
cyrine.abdelhedi [at] gmail.com