October 22, 2024: Ellen Winner
Dr. Ellen Winner is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Boston College and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received her B.A. in English Literature from Radcliffe College and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard. Her research focuses on the psychology of the arts and on arts education. She has written over 200 articles and is author of five books -- Invented Worlds: The Psychology of the Arts (1982); The Point of Words: Children's Understanding of Metaphor and Irony (1988); Gifted Children: Myths and Realities (1996); How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration (2018); An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse: Arts Education from Colonial Times to a Promising Future (2022), and co-author of Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (2007), Studio Thinking 2: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (2013); and Studio Thinking from the Start: The K-8 Art Educator's Handbook (2018). She served as President of APA's Division 10, Psychology and the Arts in 1995-1996. She received the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Research by a Senior Scholar in Psychology and the Arts from Division 10 in 2000. She is a fellow of APA Division 10 and the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. A 2020 special issue of Empirical Studies in the Arts honored her work.
Please register to attend this event by 3 pm on October 22, 2024.
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