Sharif Bey
Associate Professor
Overview:
Education:
Ph.D. Art Education - Pennsylvania State University (2007)
M.F.A. Studio Art - University of North Carolina Greensboro (2000)
B.F.A. Ceramics - Slippery Rock University (1998)
Research Focus: Art Education Histories, Ethnography, Teacher Training
Through archival research, interviews, narrative inquiry, and ethnographic studies, Beys' writings offer revisions of personal and institutional art education histories. He publishes extensively on the value of teaching and learning in unconventional spaces and the aesthetic encounters we experience outside of the classroom. With a particular focus on Art Education in the former Soviet Bloc, the Art Education of African American's in the Segregated South during the Depression Era and his own lived experience as an art student in countless art programs throughout his childhood, Bey has published numerous articles. His research is featured in publications such as Studies in Art Education, The Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy, The Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education and The Journal of Power in Education.
Currently, Dr. Bey is the Editor of the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education (2013-present) and serves on the editorial boards of theJournal of Cultural Research in Art Education, Studies in Art Education and Visual Arts Research.
Recent publications:
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Bey, S. (2014). An Autoethnography of Bodybuilding, Visual Culture, Aesthetic Experience, and Performed Masculinity. The Journal of Visual Culture and Gender. 9, 31-47. http://vcg.emitto.net
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Bey, S. (2013). Excavating the cityscape through urban tales and local archives.Art Education: Journal of the National Art Education Association, 66(4), 14-18.
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Bey, S. (2012). Engaging ‘Gangland’ Visual Culture: Memorializing Beltzhoover’s victims of violence 1993-1997.Studies in Art Education, 53(2), 94-111.
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Bey, S.(2011). Naked bodies and nasty pictures: Decoding sex scripts in preadolescence, reframing normative nudity through art education. Studies in Art Education, 52(3), 196-212.
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Bey, S. (2011). Aaron Douglas and Hale Woodruff: African-American art education, gallery work, and expanded pedagogy. Studies in Art Education, 52(2), 112-125.