Associate Professor, Coordinator of Art Education

Current Research: Multicultural art education.

Florida State University, Ph.D. Art Education
University of North Carolina, M.Ed. Art Education
Winston-Salem State University, B.F. A. Fine Arts.    
Teaching certificate (Kindergarten through twelfth grade) Art Education (1985- Present) State of Florida.

Taught art for eleven years to students at the elementary level (k-5)
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Institute for Education.
Outstanding Art Educator in Higher Education, National Art Education Association
Outstanding Art Educator in Higher Education, South Carolina Art Education Association
Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program    (Travel and study in South Africa)
Mary J. Rouse Art Education Award

Statement about work and research interests

Her current research focuses on utilizing ethnographic methods and photography to document the camp meeting traditions throughout  areas of the United States.   To date, she has received funding from the South Carolina Arts Commission and the South Carolina Humanities Council to assist in funding this project.   In the fall of 2003 she mentored a group of students ages 11-17 and they took photographs of camp meeting through their own lenses.  An exhibition of their works will take place in the near future. 

Her interest in folk life, folk traditions, and self-taught artists is also developing into curricular materials for teachers to use in their classrooms.