Tufts/SMFA Art Education Festival 2009
Held April 27 - May 1, 2009

The Art Education Festival exhibited the art work of K-12 public school students created under the guidance of MAT and BFA-AE students during their full time student teaching internship in the Tufts/SMFA Art Education program.

Our objectives were:

• Displaying the results of our work as artist-teachers in the setting of our scholarly and art making community.
• Advancing the discourse in art education about what it means to be an emerging art teacher in the context of:
  • Our multicultural society and artworlds.
  • Postmodernism's influence on art making.
  • The role of visual culture in the life of our PK-12 art students.
  • The daily realities of developing, designing, implementing and evaluating curriculum in the PK-12 public school classroom