InSEA Executive Board
TERESA TORRES DE EÇA
Past President & InSEA Representative to WAAE; Chair, Elections & Appointments Committee

Past President & InSEA Representative to WAAE; Chair, Elections & Appointments Committee
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.
Vice-President
I will continue working as a part of a leadership team which strengthens the reach and impact of InSEA globally, to attract more active members and to develop connections across the communities which make membership worthwhile. Doing this through our webinars, our social media, taking part in international events, conferences and congresses, our publications, our Boards, our links with UNESCO as a NGO, and the WAAE. In 2024 we will celebrate 70 years of InSEA, and also review our Manifesto to recognise global changes. Access to art education for all is the driver for myself and for all of us.
vice-president.susan[at]insea.org
@theartcriminal
@theartcriminal
World Councillor: South East Asia & The Pacific
Kathryn is a passionate visual artist, community artist, arts educator and an internationally published interdisciplinary visual arts researcher residing in Newcastle, NSW, Australia. She is long-time member of InSEA, a current the SEAP representative on the World Council and Reviews Editor of the International Journal of Education through Art, 2023.
Kathryn’s practice and research scholarship draws on neuroscience, enactive cognition, creative learning and Deleuzoguattarian thinking. Her focus includes visual arts and design, art/science, arts-education, narrative research; arts-based methods; the performative work of image construction; critical and social inquiry; subjectivity insights; embodied learning and visual performative pedagogies as they surround the contemporary subject.
kath.grushka[at]newcastle.edu.au
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4228-3606
Instagram. @kath.grushka
World Councillor: South East Asia & The Pacific Region
Dr Sarah Healy is co-lead of SWISP Lab (Speculative Wonderings in Space and Place), a co-laboratory of practitioners working across the fields of speculative a/r/tography, affect theory, metho-pedagogy, and digital scholarship in the humanities, arts and social sciences. Sarah’s interdisciplinary program of research is orientated by the idea of 'justice' and involves collaborations with academics, artists, practitioners, educators and GLAM professionals around the world. As a World Councillor Sarah aims to raise the profile of InSEA in Aotearoa New Zealand and build on the excellent work of past councillors by creating opportunities for SEAP members to share, network and collaborate.
@eduTH1NK
0000-0003-2794-8216
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: Africa & The Middle East
Patrique deGraft-Yankson is an Associate Professor of Art and Design Education in the University of Education. He is currently engaged in a series of projects with the https://www.explore-vc.org., with a research interest which seeks to explore how traditional art/design resources work to influence global arts education. His passion for transformative research spurs him to engage his students in the investigation of what it should take to redesign the sociocultural milieu with the wellbeing of the society in mind, through art education. This indeed connects with his aim, as world councilor, to expand the frontiers of InSEA across his sub-region, using his enthusiastic students as a base.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9283-2896
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrique-degraft-yankson-817965122/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089393078202
Chair: InSEA Europe Region Council (Executive Board)
It is about my/our project, ATAE. Art Teachers' Art Exhibition for InSEA 70 anniversary. I have discussed the idea at 2023 InSEA meeting in Turkey with Andrew Ash, Rolf Laven and Petra Sobanova. They said - good idea! Christiana Africaner is a person, with whom I started this concept again, some years ago. But, ATAE was in my mind already in 2012, when there was a teachers´strike in Estonia. Teachers´artworks were exposed then in Estonian Parliament. In Jan. 2024, we had teachers´strike again. Strikes are the reaction to the arrogance and empty promises of Estonian government parties of the last, almost 15+ years. They do not care of the teachers. Salaries are extremely low, as compared to the amount of work. Inflation is hugh and strategic goods prices have risen sky-high during these years. Please have a look at my homepage, dear colleagues! Tõnu Talve - Live Art https://talvetonu.ee
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: Europe Region
For more than two decades, I have split my life between Finland and the United States. I believe that experiencing life this way, by working and living in these two continents, have provided me with a simultaneous insider-outsider perspective to both of the educational systems and cultures of arts education research and practice. This dual perspective has allowed me to observe and critically study how issues important to me, such as diversity, equity, human and animals rights, antinormative education, practices of democracy and activism/slow resistance, have been addressed and developing in these societies, and how the discourse of arts education has evolved in relation to broader social and cultural changes and transitions.
europe.anniina[at]insea.org
World Councillor: North America Region
As a member of InSEA, I am privileged to participate in many dynamic and engaging events that inspire my commitment to the worldwide community of art education. My focus in research and teaching continues to advance sustainable development, knowledge commons and global citizenry, and it is in that capacity I would like to continue to contribute to the Association as a world counsellor. I believe joining together and supporting art for all opens transnational and transdisciplinary dialogues by fostering equity, diversity,
inclusivity and accessibility+ as the ethic of practice. Building on this disposition and on past experiences – community art education, conference organisation, editorial activities – I actively seek to generate exchanges and collaborations that promote greater cultural diversity, intercultural dialogues and social inclusion.
northamerica.anita.sinner[at]insea.org
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
World Councillor: Asia Region
I have practiced "Think globally, Act locally" through art education for years. Based on my teaching experience at public schools in Japan, I am convinced that the issues of art education in school settings can be shared across borders. Currently, as a researcher
with 25 years of teaching experience at junior and senior high schools, I will strive to operate an international academic conference that allows exchanges between a wide range of school types and positions. If I will be elected to the world council in the Asia region, I promise to work with my colleagues with enthusiasm. Let’s knock together on the door to the world from the art room of your school! If
you do, you should be able to see a different future. Let's work together through art to nurture children who will survive in a rapidly changing modern society!
World Councillor: Asia Region
Yung Shan Hung has served as the InSEA World Committee member since 2019, I participate in working groups, World and Asia region conferences, webinars, and the publication ‘Learning Through Art: International Pictures of Practice’ editing work. In view of the UNESCO's 2030 sustainable development goals, especially in a complex and uncertain living world, as well as the development of artificial intelligence, art education can cultivate learners' creativity and critical thinking, and is more conducive to non-cognitive learning such as social emotional learning . Therefore, to serve as a world councillor, I will engage to InSEA missions and works, and devote to the policy, researches and practice of art and aesthetic education in Taiwan and Asia Region. I will also integrate relevant resources to promote the networking of the artists, art educators, researchers, policy makers communities and to expand InSEA impact.
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
Principal Editor: International Journal of Education through Art
Tara Winters is a senior lecturer in Fine Arts, and programme director of undergraduate studies, at the Elam School of Fine Arts and Design, Te Waka Tuhura, The University of Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand. I am fascinated by conceptualisations of studio learning and the university as a studio. My research focuses on creative arts higher education and the art school in society. I have authored articles on a range of topics including research-oriented pedagogies developing in parallel to the rise of artistic research within academia, the development of a structure for facilitating meta-learning in art and design education, and inquiry into the power of images as a catalyst for transformative learning. I am the principal editor of the International Journal of Education Through Art (InSEA in partnership with Intellect Books).
ijetaeditor.tarawinters[at]insea.org
Chair: InSEA Asia Region Council (Executive Board)
I am an Associate Professor of Art Education at Tokyo Gakugei University and served as Secretary of the InSEA Asia Regional Council in my previous term. I have been actively involved in organising webinars and
preparing for the regional congress. Throughout my career, I have engaged in international joint research projects with scholars and teachers across Asia and the world. The artistic cultures of Asian countries have historically influenced one another, resulting in a rich tapestry of diversity and commonality. Today, we can share our practices and research across borders, fostering new collaborative initiatives. InSEA serves as a vital platform that connects the diverse arts and cultures of different regions, promoting the creation and sharing of valuable art education practices and research. I am committed to building activities and content that enable wide participation, and I have strived to create harmony in this historically and culturally rich region. I aim to lead with even greater dedication, supporting and realising our collective goals. I look forward to achieving this together with you all.
World Councillor: Europe Region
Rolf Laven, dedicated Artist and Art Education professor in Vienna, (PH, Academie/ University Applied Arts etc.) encourages engagement with creativity and empowerment through innovative approaches. His inspiring teaching methods in areas like service-learning, diversity, literacy and social sculpture are complemented by intensive international cooperation and research alliances. As Chair of BÖKWE (Austrian_Art&Design_Association), he furthers the arts within schools and communities. Rolf promotes policy development and opportunities for professional growth by advocating for creative spaces and opportunities in diverse settings. His candidacy for InSEA World Council reflects his commitment to advancing the arts as an essential part of education and society.
europe.rolflaven[at]insea.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9907-7838
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rolf-laven-8b776035/
https://www.instagram.com/rolflaven/
https://www.facebook.com/rolf.laven/
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
Mira Kallio-Tavin (Doctor or Arts) is the Winnie Chandler Distinguished Professor of Art in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, USA. Before she worked as associate professor and the Head of Research in the Department of Art at Aalto University, Finland. Dr. Kallio-Tavin serves as the Vice President of InSEA for 2022-2025, and was European World Councilor for 2019-2022. As a Vice President she focuses developing the work of the Research and Praxis board and navigates the future research opportunities for InSEA.
vice-president.mira@insea.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6131-4033
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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
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
World Councillor: Asia Region
Together with ARC, I would promote the value and influence of InSEA in Asian region by providing Asian members whose first language is not English with more access to InSEA resources by organizing reading groups in local languages on InSEA publication, as well as translation service for InSEA researchers and teachers who are invited to take part in important Asian events. With those efforts, I wish InSEA could recruit more Asian members who felt the pride and value of being one of us.
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.
World Councillor: Latin America Region
Our aim is to collaborate with InSEA in art education projects and actions that consider the reality of Latin America and Brazil, making connections with what happens around the world on the ground. It is important to point out that we intend to collaborate in understanding the ideas behind curriculum proposals and the distance between them and the diversity of classroom contexts in primary schools.
Through InSEA, we can promote events and actions for art teacher educators and also have the presence and participation of those who work with art in schools, teachers and administrators.
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: Latin America Region
La educación artÃstica constituye en estos momentos de América Latina, una herramienta fundamental para la transformación de nuestras sociedades. El impacto que tienen en nuestros espacios cotidianos los nuevos medios de comunicación, requiere volver a pensar la producciones estéticas, provengan del campo artÃstico o no, proponiendo una mirada crÃtica para generar respuestas especÃficas y comprometidas con el entorno donde desarrollamos nuestros proyectos. Las polÃticas educativas en nuestros paÃses, muchas veces no contemplan esta perspectiva o no brindan las posibilidades para desarrollarlas, pero generan espacios e intersticios donde podemos (y debemos) trabajar a través de la educación artÃstica. Es necesario profundizar el esfuerzo para la construcción de redes de colaboración activas entre profesoras y profesores, que permitan volcar las experiencias y desarrollos de los educadores y educadoras de nuestros paÃses hacia nuestras sociedades
World Councillor: Europe Region
I am an artist, art, and design teacher, researcher, and a south american immigrant in Norway. My praxis as an art teacher is rooted in multicultural education to address intersectional discrimination and climate change at school. As an artist, I use artistic research to dissect the politics of the aesthetics of women’s bodies. I have a master's in Art Education K-12 and another in Artistic Research. I am currently finishing my doctoral studies. Before becoming an art educator, I worked for 15 years in advertising.
I aim to bridge formal and non-formal educational settings in different countries by focusing on multicultural perspectives.
europe.leticiabalzi[at]insea.org
ORCID: 0000-0002-8626-5530
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
President
It has been my honour and privilege to serve you as President since July 2019. I have been a member of InSEA since 1996 and I think it is the most important organisation for art and education. We must work together to promote and strengthen the excellent work by artist-educators globally. We need to:
Raise the profile of education through art internationally;
Give voice to those normally unheard in our professional community;
Promote small-scale events in all regions;
Connect artist-educators from all sectors and all parts of the world to our global community.
Let’s work together for education through art!
president.glencoutts[at]insea.org
glen_coutts_artist
@glencouttsart
https://www.linkedin.com/in/glencoutts
World Councillor: South East Asia and The Pacific
World Councillor: Africa & The Middle East
I am the academic coordinator for Art at an international school in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I advocate promoting talent, and a progressive and inclusive curriculum reflective of world history, heritage, and culture. I am thankful and very grateful for this wonderful opportunity to be a world councillor representing Africa and the Middle-East region. I am excited to collaborate with my esteemed colleagues to help promote InSEA in the field of art education and international understanding. I look forward to all the positive endeavours with InSEA. Thank you
asc.reid[at]gmail.com