Dr. Cathy Caldwell

NCATE VITA

CATHY R. CALDWELL, EDD

Head, Art Department Professor, Art Education

Undergraduate Faculty

Appointed 2002

Academic Degrees

ED.D. University of Arkansas, Major Secondary Education with

Emphasis in Art and Curriculum 1990

1980 Certification in Instructional Supervision

M.ED. North Georgia College, Art Education 1979

1979 Certification in State of Georgia

beginning teacher evaluator

B.A. University of the Ozarks; Art Education 1969

Professional Experience

2002 to present Professor and Head, Art Department; Arkansas Tech University. Responsibilites

include teaching undergraduate courses in art and art education, supervising student teachers, directing field based program, advising art education majors

and leading a department of three full time faculty, gallery director and visiting

artist, four adjuncts, and 130 majors, minors and post graduates seeking licensure

1989-2002 Professor, Art Education, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR. Responsibilities included coordination of art education program, NASAD steering

Committee, directed field based program, supervision of student teachers and

Teaching art education methods courses both graduate and undergraduate and

other art courses.

1988-1989 Instructor, Art Education Graduate Assistant, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Administration, Field-Based Instructional Programs in Art Education, instructor

Art Education methods.

1982-1987 Curriculum and Art Education Specialist-University of the Ozarks. Taught art education, art, and served program coordinator for the Title III program

1975-1982 Art Curriculum and Instructional Coordinator, Hall County Board of Education

Gainesville, GA. Supervised all curriculum areas for two elementary schools. Instructional Coordinator, visual arts for all programs K-12 for fourteen schools.

1980-1982 Staff Development Instructor, Visual Arts Education, Hall County Board of Education

1980-1982 State of Georgia Beginning Teacher Evaluator, Regional Art Education Evaluator

1969-1971 Elementary Art Specialist, Durant Community Schools Durant, Iowa

Faculty and Administrative Load

2002 to present- ½ administration (department head ) and ½ time faculty

Collegiate Assignments

Time out for Tech 2004, 2003, 2002

Tech Open House 2004, 2003, 2002

Technology Committee 2004

Secondary Education Council 2004, 2003, 2002

Teacher Education Council 2004

Graphic Design Search Committee Chair 2003

Hallmarks Committee 2003

Bridge to Excellence Program 2004, 2003

Creates Program Director 2004, 2003, 2002

Art Department Program Review Chair 2004

SFLA Heads Committee 2004, 2003, 2002

Academic Council 2004, 2003, 2002

Coordinated programming for new art building 2004, 2003

Initiated Thomas Sands Scholarship program 2003

Restructured art curriculum for program 2003, 2002

Designed and Developed Program Sophomore Review Assessment Plan 2003

Women in the Arts Committee Exhibit Coordinator 2003

President’s Dinner Exhibit Coordinator 2002

Academic Leadership Program Masters Program Board 200

.Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

National Art Education Association

Arkansas Art Educators

Professional Assignments and Activities

Arkansas Art Educators, presentor, at the 85^th Legislative Assembly-Spoke to house education committee on behalf of keeping present law in place requiring certified art teachers 2005

Juror, Arkansas Young Artists, Barrett Hamilton statewide exhibits, Arkansas River Valley Secondary exhibit, 2000-2005

National Art Education Association, Assessment Task Force, 1997-1999

National Art Education Association States Assembly, 1997-1998

Arkansas Art Education Association, President, President-Elect, 1994-1998

Arkansas Art Education Association Higher Education Director

Arkansas Art Education Association: Board/Council 1990-1998

State Board of Education Visual Arts Framework Committee, 1994, 1995

Consultant, Visual Arts Rockefeller Project - Conway Public Schools

Coordinator/Director: Preservice Art Education Colloquium, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999

Publications/Grants

The Girl with the Pearl Earring, the real story of Vermeer, 2001. University of Central Arkansas

Summer Reading project portfolio.

Museum without Walls. 2000. Multicultural Resource Kits for Elementary Schools. University of Central Arkansas.

Penn State University (1997) Proceedings of the Third Penn State International Symposium on the History of Art Education, University Park, PA, October 12-13, 1995 (juried selection for publication/presentation) (edited paper for inclusion 1996).

Co-author Experience Art “Children’s Visual Art Development.”

(1997) Arkansas Department of Education, Little Rock (state visual arts curriculum guide) (invited to develop).

Ed. (1996) Exemplary Units of Study. Arkansas Department of Education, Little Rock ($15,000 grant awarded to develop).

Ed. (1996) Visual Arts Consortium: Unit Plans: Goals 2000 Project. U.S. Department of Education ($ 75,000 grant awarded to develop).

Quarterly President’s and Vice-President’s Quarterly Column. Arkansas Art Educators News 1994-1998.

Joint Author (1995). Visual Arts Frameworks for Arkansas Schools. Arkansas Department of Education, Little Rock (one of two higher education faculty in state invited to develop overall state frameworks).

Visual Arts Frameworks (1995) `Introduction.’ Arkansas Department of Education, Little Rock (contracted to develop).

Field-Based Model for Secondary Education, implementation: 1990-1999.

Student Teaching Visual Arts Model for Elementary Schools and District Exhibit. Implementation: 1991-1998.

`CREATES,’ a visual arts curriculum model and arts partnership with local elementary schools. Implementation: 1990-1998.

UCA Foundation Grants, 1993, 1994, 1996: "Preservice Teacher Colloquium"

Developmental Stages in "Art Education: Visual Art Frameworks." Arkansas Department of Education, 1996.

Arkansas Arts Council/UCA Foundation Grant, Spring 1990.

Editor. "Art Curriculum Enhancement Project Volume I, II." Arkansas Arts Council.

Editor. Multicultural Curriculum Guide. Rockefeller Project, 1991.

Papers Presented

“Beyond the Color Wheel” 2003. Slide presentation at the Arkansas Art Educators Fall Conference

“Teaching with Real World Contexts” 2002. Slide presentation at the National Art Education conference, March 2002

“Ozark Woodlands Sculpture Project” 2001. Slide presentation at the Arkansas Art Educators Fall conference

Workshop for new and beginning teachers. 2001. Arkansas Art Educators Fall Conference.

‘Team Teaching with Technology: Art, Writing, and Religion, Interdisciplinary project.” 2001. University of Central Arkansas Technology Conference.

“Partnerships in Preservice Art Education” 2001 Arkansas Teacher Educators Spring Conference

“Russian Childrens Art Project” 2000. Arkansas Art Educators fall conference

Panel Moderator. “Multicultural units of Study” 2000(UCA art methods students presentations) Arkansas Art Educators Fall Conference

“Paul Cezanne” 2000. Lecture and slide presentation, Second Sunday lecture series, Baum Gallery of Art, Conway , AR

“Master Teacher Partnership Program” 1999. National Art Education Conference, Washington, D.C.

Keynote address: `National Issues Affecting Art Education.’ (Invited to present): Arkansas Art Educators Fall Conference, Little Rock, November 1998.

Panel Presider: `Student and Master Teacher E-Mail project’ (UCA students presented), Arkansas Art Educators Fall Conference, Little Rock, November 1998 (juried process).

Panel Presenter: `Perspectives on Writing from a Higher Education Perspective,’ Arkansas Art Educators Fall Conference, Little Rock, November 1998 (invited to be part of panel).

`New to Profession,’ presider and organizer (50 students attended), Arkansas Art Education Association, Little Rock, November 1998.

Presentations: Higher Education Session `Search for Meaning, Frameworks Initiative and Curriculum Reform,’ National Art Education Association Conference, New Orleans, March 1997 (juried selection by higher education committee).

`Fay Jones and Building an Architecture for Art Education,’ awards address, National Art Education Association Conference, New Orleans, March 1997.

`Experience Art and the Elementary Art Curriculum’ (invited to address), Arkansas Elementary School Council, Little Rock, October, 1997.

Presentation address, Arkansas Art Educators Statewide Exhibit Opening, Arkansas State Capitol, 1996-1998 (request by Arkansas Department of Education).

Exemplary Units of Study, Arkansas Art Educators Fall Conference, Little Rock, November 1997 (Arkansas Departmetn of Education request to present).

`Implementing National Standards,’ International Art Education Association to be held at Little, France (conference canceled, international politics!) (Juried selection).

`A Gestalt for Art Educatiom, Integrating the History of Art Education in Preservice Art Education,’ Third Penn State International Symposium, Penn State University, University Park, PA, October 1995 (also served as moderator of a session, juried selection).

`A Collaborative Field Experience Design,’ Arkansas Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Spring Conference, March 1994.

Super Session Presider and Panel Member: `Visual Arts Frameworks,’ Arkansas Art Educators Fall Conference, Little Rock, November 1994.

Panel presider: `Preservice Perspectives,’ Arkansas Art Educators Fall Conference, Little Rock, November 1994.

"The Gestalt of Teaching the History of Art Education," Third International History of Art Education Symposium, Penn State University, October 1996.

"Preservice Teacher as Catalyst for Forming Effective School Partnerships," Arkansas College Teacher Educators Conference, Little Rock, April 1994.

"Arkansas Arts Initiative," paper accepted, National Art Education Association, Chicago, April, 1993.

"Qualitative Research and the Improvement of Practice in the Visual Arts Teacher Education Programs", National Art Education Association, Phoenix, Arizona, Spring 1992.

"The Quantum Leap of Cognitive Thought," keynote address, Arkansas Art Educators Fall Conference, November 1992.

"The Multicultural Arts Connection," Conway Public Schools, Rockefeller Project, December 1991, University of Central Arkansas.

"Preservice Teacher as Catalyst, Designing Methods Course Curriculum" - slide presentation - National Art Education Association, March 24, 1991, Atlanta, Georgia.

"Art Curriculum Enhancement Project" - slide presentation - National Art Education Association 1990 National Convention, April 6, 1990, Kansas City, Kansas.

"A Field-Based Instructional Model in the Visual Arts" - Slide Presentation - National Art Education Association 1990 National Convention, April 7, 1990, Kansas City, Kansas.

"Field-Based Instructional Programs in the Visual Arts as Inservice Training" - slide presentation - University of Arkansas College of Education Annual Symposia, April 1989.

HONORS

Western Region Higher Education Art Educator of the Year 2005, National Art Education Association

Arkansas Higher Education Art Educator of the Year, 2004. Arkansas Art Educators

Marion Quinn Dix National Leadership Award in Art Education 2002, National Art Education Association

Finalist -UCA Teacher of the Year and University Service 2000

Arkansas Exemplary Service Award 2001

-Arkansas Art Educators

Arkansas Art Educator of the year, 1997

University of Central Arkansas Sabbatical Leave Award, 1997

Arkansas Young Artists patron of the Arts Award, 1995

Arkansas Art Educators Higher Education Art Educator of the Year 1992

8. Research

Visual Arts Education as Integral to Curriculum Program, U.S. Department of Education Grant, 1996.

Exemplary Studies in Art Education, Arkansas Department of Education Grant, 1996.

Russian Children’s Art Initiative. UCA Foundation Grant, 1998.

Grant: Preservie Art Colloquium, 1992-1999.

"Creates," A Preservice Visual Arts Development Handbook. Field Test, Fall 1994.

Fall semester 1989

Art 4360 Art for the Grades

Art 4350 Art Education I

Art 4351 Art Education II