John & Betty Michael Autobiographical Lecture Series in Art Education
John and Betty Michael Autobiographical Distinguished Lecturer for 2024-25
Dr. Marilyn Galvin Stewart
Who’s Calling? My Professional Life as a Series of Phone Calls
Location: Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum Auditorium
Date: Monday, April 7, 2025
5:15 - 6:00pm: Informal reception
6:00pm: Lecture begins
About the Speaker
Marilyn Galvin Stewart is Professor Emerita of Art Education at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and recipient of the University’s faculty awards for research and teaching. Dr. Stewart is the author of Experience Art (2023), senior author of the elementary textbook series, Explorations in Art (2008, 2019), and co-author of the middle school series, Art and the Human Experience (2000, 2001, 2009). She is co-author of Rethinking Curriculum in Art (2005), author of Thinking Through Aesthetics (1997), and editor of the Art Education in Practice series (1996- present), all published by Davis Publications.
Marilyn is a frequent keynote speaker and consultant in meetings and conferences throughout the nation and abroad. In decades of service to the field of art education, including her early years of elementary and middle school teaching, Dr. Stewart has initiated or has been consultant to numerous national and local curriculum projects, including her work as coordinator of the Educator Guides Project for the PBS series, Craft in America (2007-present), Director of The Dinner Party Curriculum Project with Judy Chicago (2007-2016), and as a member of the writing team for the National Visual Arts Standards and Model Cornerstone Assessments (2012-2014). Dr. Stewart has conducted more than 200 extended professional development institutes, seminars, or in-service days in over 35 states. A Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association, Marilyn has received numerous awards for her contributions and was named the 2011 National Art Educator of the Year by the National Art Education Association.
Past Autobiographical Lectures
- Viktor Lowenfeld
- Edwin Ziegfeld
- Mary Adeline McKibbin
- Victor D’Amico
- Fred Logan
- Natalie Robinson Cole
- Ralph Beelke
- Harold Schultz
- Frank Wachowiak
- Charles D. Gaitskell
- June King McFee
- Al Hurwitz
- Edward Mattil
- Ivan Johnson
- Stanley Czurles
- Edmund Burke Feldman
- John Michael
- Kenneth Lansing
- Laura Chapman
- Eugene Grigsby
- Elliot Eisner
- Jerome Hausman
- George W. Hardiman and Theodore Zernich
- Foster Wygant
- Pearl Greenberg
- Charles M. Dorn
- Ana Mae Barbosa
- Arthur D. Efland
- Georgia C. Collins
- Nancy Parker MacGregor
- Robert Saunders
- Willis Bing Davis
- Maryl Fletcher Dejong
- Marjorie Wilson and Brent Wilson
- Enid D. Zimmerman
- Mary Stokrocki
- Renee Sandell
- Paul Duncum
- Mary Ann Stankiewicz
- Christine Marmé Thompson
- Terry Barrett
- Wanda B. Knight
- Dr. B. Stephen Carpenter, II