The National Art Education Association (NAEA) has named James Haywood Rolling, Jr., Dual Associate Professor of Art Education in the School of Education and The College of Visual and Performing Arts, to receive the 2014 National Higher Education Art Educator of the Year Award. This prestigious award, determined through a peer review of nominations, recognizes the exemplary contributions, service, and achievements of one outstanding NAEA member annually at the National level within their division. The award will be presented at the NAEA National Convention in San Diego, California, March 29-31, 2014.
NAEA President, Dennis Inhulsen states, “This award is being given to recognize excellence in professional accomplishment and service by a dedicated art educator. James Haywood Rolling, Jr. exemplifies the highly qualified art educators active in education today: leaders, teachers, students, scholars, and advocates who give their best to their students and the profession.”
Dr. Rolling has published articles, essays, and book reviews in peer-reviewed journals such as Qualitative Inquiry, Studies in Art Education, the Journal of Aesthetic Education, the Journal of Curriculum Studies, the Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy, and serves as a Review Board Member of the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education. Dr. Rolling’s scholarly interests include: arts-based educational research; the intersection of visual culture and identity politics; curriculum theory; semiotics and symbolic interaction; social justice and community-engaged scholarship; and narrative and poetic forms of inquiry in qualitative research. Dr. Rolling recently published two books, Swarm Intelligence: What Nature Teaches Us About Shaping Creative Leadership (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013), and Arts-Based Research Primer (Peter Lang, 2013). As a visual artist, Dr. Rolling specializes in mixed media explorations and portraiture.
NAEA is the professional association for art educators. Members include elementary, secondary, middle level and high school art teachers; university and college professors; education directors who oversee education in our nation’s fine art museums, administrators and supervisors who oversee art education in school districts, state departments of education, arts councils; and teaching artists throughout the United States and many foreign countries.