Lectures

The National Art Education Association National Conventions, Over fifty presentations at most conventions; 1967 to present, topics presented;

• Towards a Holistic Paradigm for the Arts Education: Mind, Body and Spirit
• Concerning the Spiritual in Art and its Teaching
• Art as Personal and Societal Transformation
• Community-Based Art Education
• Beyond DBEA: the Care for Multiple Visions for Arts Education
• Art in Pursuit of Meaning not Only Beauty
• The Case Against National Standards and for Indigenous Standards
• Gardens and Landscape Design and Planting as Art Education
• Art and its Social Responsibilities


Keynote Speaker at the following state/provincial Art Education annual conventions;

Massachusetts 1972, 1984, 1993, 1999. Rhode Island 1973. Connecticut 1990. Colorado 1990,1991, 1995. Wisconsin 1992, 1998. Minnesota 1992, 1999. North Carolina 1992. South Carolina 1992. Maryland 1993. Montana 1994. Iowa 1994. Vermont 1996. Maine 1978, 1996. Provincial Art Education Association of British Columbia 1999, Quebec Art Education Association, 1981 Detroit Institute for the Arts; Detroit Michigan

Guest lecturer and workshop presenter, Drawing Closer to Nature: a holistic approach to Arts Education, July, 2002

University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls IA, Guest Artist in Residence, 2001, 2002

Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Guest Speaker, 2001

Maryland Institute College of Art, Speaker and workshop leader, Baltimore, MD. "Towards a Holistic Model of Art Education", 1997, 2000, 2001

Detroit Institute of Arts, Guest artists Lecture Series, "My art and how it came to be that way" July, 2002

University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, "Towards a Holistic model of Art Education" May, 2002

Towson State University, Towson, MD. "Reflections on a career of Teaching Art",
April, 2002

Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA "Towards a Holistic Paradigm for Art Education" March, 2001

Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD, Marxist Perspectives on the functions of art 1983

Towards a more empowering function for Art Education; Meaning and Beauty 1990,

The Transformative Power of Art, 1996

A Holistic Paradigm for Art Education, 2001

Southwest Texas University,. "Community-Based Art Education" 1996

University of Iowa, Ames, Iowa, 1995. "Community-Based Art Education"

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1995. "Art and Community"

Milwaukee Museum of Fine Arts, 1995. "The Transformative Power of Art"

Tabor Academy Convocation, Marion, MA, 1992, 1996. "What Good is Art? What is Art for?"

Boston University, Boston, MA, 1994. "Art as Transformation"

Notre Dame College, Cleveland, Ohio, "Concerning the lack of the spritual in Art Education" 1993

Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 1993. "Art as Transformation"

State University of New York, New Paltz,, NY 1993. "Art as Transformation"

Columbia University, Teachers College, New York City, Symposium speaker; "Beyond DBAE, the case for multiple visions of Art Education" 1991

Heartland Educational Resource Center, "Community-Based Art Education" Des Moines Iowa, 1990

Independent Schools of Rhode Island, School for the Visual Arts, New York City, "Art as Transformation", 1989

Independent Schools of New England, Annual Meeting, Keynote Address; "Art Education for Meaning as well as Beauty" New York City, 1989

Columbia University, Teachers college, New York City, "Towards 'Art' in Art Education" 1989

The Hallmark Corporation, Executive Retreat, Sundance Ranch, Utah, Keynote Address; "Concerning the Spiritual in Art", 1987

University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, "Towards an Authentic Art Education", 1986

North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Asheville, NC " The Transformative potential of Art Education", 1985

Gestalt Institute, Provincetown, MA "Art Therapy's contribution to Gestalt Therapy" June, 1981

Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS:
*'The transformational potential of Art" 1975
*"The community as an Art Education resource" 1973

Bank Street college of Education, New York City, "Imagining the Future of Art Education", 1973

Queens College, SUNY, New York City, "The community as an art education resource", 1970

Concordia University, Montreal PQ, "Art and its Social Responsibilities", 1969

NAEA Convention, Super Session, "Community-Based Art Education", San Francisco, CA, 1995
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NAEA Convention, Super Session, "Towards a Holistic Paradigm for Art Education", New York City, 2001

School for the Visual Arts, Art Education and the Education of the Spirit, "Concerning the Lack of the Spiritual in Art Education", New York City

New Hampshire Alliance for the Arts, Annual Convention, Jackson, NH, Keynote Speaker, 2000

British Columbia Art Education Association, Victoria, B.C. Canada, Keynote Speaker. "Towards a Holistic Paradigm for Art Education", 1999

University of British Columbia, Guest Speaker, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, "Towards a Holistic Model of Art Education", 1997

"Sacred Art in Sacred Places" Presenter, Oaxaca Mexico, 1995, 1996

International Conference, "Education and the Future", Sao Paulo, Brazil, Featured Speaker 1993

American Art Education Leadership, Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Israel, "Concerning the Spiritual in Art Education", 1993

International Society for Art Education, Montreal Canada, Featured Speaker, "Towards a Transformational Art Education", 1993

National Conference of Ceramic Educators, Cincinnati, Featured Speaker, "Beyond DBAE: Creativity". 1992

NAEA Convention, Super Session, "Art as Transformation", Atlanta, GA, 1993

New England Art Education Association, Keynote Speaker 1987, 1992

Concordia University, Montreal, P.Q. Canada "Towards a New Framework for Art Education", 1978

Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax Nova.Scotia, Canada
"A New Paradigm for Art Education", 1988
"The Community as Visual Resource for Art Education", 1975