Arts readers and researchers will be interested to learn of the following new publications by AAEP faculty and staff. 

Professor Candace Stout and alumna Vittoria Daiello, University of Cincinnati, have published a chapter in Patricia Leavy’s new Guilford Press Handbook on Arts-based Research. The article is titled Arts-based Writing: The Performance of Our Lives focuses on composition as performance. The Handbook is back-ordered and will be available again September 10.

Congratulations to Dr. Ruth Smith, course instructor and MA Online program coordinator, on the release of her first co-authored book, Urur Dhex-Dhexaad Ah: Community In-Between, on the subject of her work with Somali-Americans in Columbus. Dublin Arts Council will present a photography exhibition on Urur Dhex-Dhexaad Ah: Community In-Between August 8 through November 3, 2017, featuring 15 central Ohio Somali trailblazers, as the first iteration in a three-year project exploring immigration, integration and identity. 

Margaret Wyszomirski and alum WoongJo Chang just had an article published in the journal, Sustainability, titled "Professional Self-Structuration in the Arts: Sustaining Creative Careers in the 21st Century" [pdf].

Deborah Smith-Shank published an article on mentoring with three current graduate students, Heesung Hur, Ramya Ravisankar and Rebecca Turk.

• Hur, H., Ravisankar, R., Smith-Shank, D. and Turk, R.B. (2017). The nest as metaphor: Reflections on mentoring, growth, and material culture. Visual Inquiry: Learning & Teaching Art, 5(3), 393-406.

Deborah Smith Shank also published in Chinese Semiotic Studies and Visual Arts Research.

• Smith-Shank, D.L. (2017). Once upon a time: Fairy tales and other stories. Chinese Semiotic Studies 13(3): 245–253.
• Keifer-Boyd, K. & Smith-Shank, D. (2017). Born Digital: Visual culture and gender. Visual Arts Research Special Issue: (Im)Migrating to Digital Art Education Scholarship, 43(1), 17-35.

Joni Acuff published an article in Art Education with alum Courtney Wolfgang and colleague Sunny Spillane.

• Acuff, J.B., Spillane, S., Wolfgang, S. (2017). Breaking Organizational Silence: Speaking Out for Human Rights in NAEA. Art Education, 70(4), 38-40.

And, finally out: Transforming Our Practices: Indigenous Art, Pedagogies, and Philosophies by Christine Ballengee Morris and Kryssi Staikidis, Editors.

Congratulations to Drs. Acuff, Ballengee Morris, Smith, Smith-Shank, Stout, and Wyszomirski! We are awed by the fact that many of these publications involved our faculty working with alumni and graduate students.