Visual Art Appreciation Survey

The note and link below is for an arts-based research survey conducted by artist and scholar, Susan Loomis.

Please participate in this survey that I am working on for my doctoral level Quantitative Methods class. My research involves exploring the appreciation of Visual Art. Thank you for your participation!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/visualartappreciationsurvey

The link below brings you to the National Center for Teachers, Counselors and School Leaders at Lesley University, which highlights recent research conducted by 6 doctoral students in the graduate school of education.

Check out these research projects to get a sense for the issues being explored, which range from adult learning persistence, meaningful special education, and arts-based research such as Prometheus Bound: A Phenomenological Case Study of the Lived Experiences of Performing Arts Makers.

http://nationalcenter.lesley.edu/

Prometheus Bound - A Phenomenological Case Study of the Lived Experiences of Performing Arts-Makers

I defended my dissertation at Lesley in Cambridge, MA on August 18, 2011. I will post a link to it shortly when it becomes available in google. Please see abstract below.

Abstract

This phenomenological case study explored the lived experiences of performing arts-makers, who participated in the engagement practices utilized in Prometheus Bound, the rock musical produced by the American Repertory Theater in 2011.

Engagement practices are actions employed to deepen the impact of the artistic experience, which may involve the creative use of physical space, choreography, physical contact, social justice, community collaboration, and other aspects of a live performance. Engagement practices occur in the liminal zone; the neutral space between performing arts-makers and audience members that is conducive to deep empathetic reflection because the boundary between arts-maker and audience is transformed and sometimes removed.

Conceptual models developed by artist, Suzanne Lacy and artist and educator, Charles Garoian informed this study, which found that performing arts-makers demonstrated behavior that one might consider to be other-oriented and self-reported reflective learning experiences, following their participation in the engagement practices of Prometheus Bound.