Karen Keifer-Boyd, Ph.D.
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Dr. Karen
Keifer-Boyd is professor of art education in the School of Visual
Arts at Penn State University, and affiliate professor in Women's
Studies. Her grant supported research focuses on strategies for teaching
critical inquiry and creative approaches with dynamic interactive
technologies. Karen's critically-oriented work problematizes cultural
inscriptions, seeks social transformation, and practices critical
self-reflexivity. Engaged in feminist theory and methodologies she
creates virtual spaces
to raise issues of representation, identity, and politics of display. Publications on politics of display, virtual museums, and uses of technology for multivocal art interpretations led to invitations to serve as visual arts and technology consultant to the Hong Kong Institute of Education (1998) and to Northern Illinois University (1998). In spring 2001, Keifer-Boyd was invited to present "Interactive Aesthetics" at the National Taiwan College of the Arts in Taipei, Taiwan; and "Art & Technology" & "Politics of Display" at Yuan Ze University in Taoyan, Taiwan. In July 2002 she will present, "CYBERFEMINIST HOUSE: (In)Forming Collaborations" at the Third Wave Feminism International Conference at Exeter University, UK. Since the mid 1980s she has presented annually at state and national art education conferences. In October 2000, Keifer-Boyd presented “In.TIME.ations: A Performative Interactive Digital Video Installation” at the International symposium "Performative Sites: Intersecting Art, Technology, and the Body" at Penn State. Her video Lynne Hull: Ecoatonements in West Texas, premiered at Landmark Arts Gallery, Lubbock, TX, in 2000. She is an invited member of the Chi Chapter of Phi Beta Delta (Honor Society for International Scholars) and received a Fulbright Scholar award in 2006 to conduct research on new media art curriculum in Finland and to teach at the University of Art & Design in Helsinki. |
Karen rests on an old
growth nest on Tamolitch Trail, Oregon, 2000 |
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Keifer-Boyd's writings on politics of display, virtual museums, ecofeminist art, community-based art, and uses of technology for multivocal art interpretations have appeared in publications such as Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, Journal of Art Education, Art and Academe, Studies in Art Education, Visual Arts Research, and as chapters in several books. She co-edited Real-World Readings in Art Education: Things Your Professors Never Told You (2000, Falmer), an anthology of art teaching experiences that protest, break, ignore, or rewrite art education. She also has served as editor of The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education (1996 & 1997), Visual Arts Research (2004-2005), co-editor of Visual Culture & Gender, and has served as Coordinator of the National Art Education Association's Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (1999-2001). Wth over two decades experience as
an arts program director, Keifer-Boyd was honored with the Arts
Administrator of the Year National Art Education Award for the Pacific
Region in 1994; and the Texas Outstanding Art Educator Higher Ed
Award in 2001. In 2005 she was honored with the National Art Education
Association Women’s Caucus Teaching Award. |
