The 2019 AAEP Barkan Award & Marantz Award Ceremony will be held this Friday, March 29 from 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. in the Barnett Collaboratory on the first floor of Sullivant Hall. This event is open to graduate students, alumni, and faculty of the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy. RSVP to Program Assistant Brian Javor at Javor.8@osu.edu.

The Manuel Barkan Fellowship was established in 1995 in the name of the first chair of the department by his wife, Toby Barkan Willits. This competitive award supports the academic and living expenses of a doctoral candidate in Art Education who is completing his/her dissertation. This year, AAEP announced that PhD candidate Christopher Jeansonne is to receive this prestigious award.

Christopher Jeansonne is a PhD candidate in the Department of Arts Administration, Education, and Policy at The Ohio State University, specializing in film and media pedagogy. He also holds an MFA in Film from Ohio University.  Chris’ classroom based-media pedagogy research explores how individual, group, and cultural identities are cultivated and articulated through media. Before returning to doctoral work, Chris had worked in film and media production in New Orleans, he was the founding chair of an award-winning high school media arts program, and he had previously taught in Japan at both K-12 and university levels.

He will present his doctoral dissertation research: Superheroes in the Classroom, Or: An Autoethnographic Account of Great Power, Responsibility, and Community of Critical Media Pedagogy. [pdf]

The Marantz Distinguished Alumni Lecture Fund was established in 1999 with gifts from Harold and Kenneth Marantz to honor a distinguished alum of the program. Each year, graduate students in the department select the winner. This year's recipient is Dr. Melanie Buffington.

Dr. Melanie L. Buffington earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Art Education at The Ohio State University in 2004 and 1999, respectively, and her B.S. at The Pennsylvania State University. She previously taught middle school art in Maryland and has interned in numerous museums.

Her current research interests include: museum education, emerging technologies, culturally responsive pedagogy, contemporary art, public art, and service-learning.  She was recently awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for $180,000 that funded two teacher workshops during the summer of 2016 related to collective memories of the Civil War in and around Richmond.  She also recently participated in a community-engaged project that involved an arts-based after school program for youth at the Neighborhood Resource Center in Richmond, VA. For the 2014-15 academic year, she was named as a VCU Service-Learning Fellow and her work in this arena focused on the importance of reflection as a part of service-learning.

Dr. Buffington will deliver a lecture titled: Visualizing Resources: Diversity in Teaching Materials. [pdf]