Art Education
College of Arts and Architecture
School of Visual Arts
KAREN KEIFER-BOYD, Ph.D.
Professor of Art Education and Affiliate Professor of Women's Studies
Karen Keifer-Boyd, professor of art education and affiliate professor of women's studies, has presented papers at numerous national and international conferences, and presented on intersections of technology and education at several universities, including Yuan Ze University in Taoyan, Taiwan; Hong Kong Institute of Education; University of Art and Design in Helsinki; Northern Illinois University; Western Michigan State University, Ohio State University; and the University of Oregon. She is a Fulbright Scholar and is an invited member of the Chi Chapter of Phi Beta Delta (Honor Society for International Scholars) in recognition of her publications and leadership in the area of technology and art education. Her Fulbright Lecture and Research Award from the Council for International Exchange of Scholars involved feminist perspectives in cross-cultural collaboration to create new media art curricula for grades 4-9 and to further develop CyberHouse, a Web-based art education interactive game-like site. As part of the Fulbright, she also taught "Virtual Learning Communities in Art Education: Current Issues and Practices" at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki and "Forming Research and Focusing Qualitative Analysis" at the University of Lapland. Her research focuses on strategies for teaching critical inquiry and creative approaches with dynamic/interactive technologies. Engaged in feminist methodologies she creates virtual spaces to problematize representation, identity, and display for personal and societal transformative possibilities. Her writings on feminist pedagogy, visual culture, politics of display, virtual museums, ecofeminist art, community-based art, inclusion practices, cyberart, and multivocal art criticism have appeared in publications such as Studies in Art Education, Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, Journal of Art Education, Visual Arts Research, Art and Academe, and Distance Learning, and as chapters in several books. She co-authored Engaging Visual Culture (Davis, 2007), co-edited Real-World Readings in Art Education: Things Your Professors Never Told You (2000, Falmer), and served as editor of the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education and guest editor for Visual Arts Research. She is currently co-editor of Visual Culture and Gender. Dr. Keifer-Boyd received the Pacific Region Arts Administrator of the Year National Art Education Award in 1994, the Texas Outstanding Art Educator in Higher Education Award in 2001, and the National Art Education Association Women's Caucus Connors Teaching Award in 2005.