Art Education

The program philosophy and purpose of the Art Education emphasis area at SDSU is to prepare students to become highly competent art teachers to work at the Middle and High School levels at public and private institutions. We want to produce graduates who have developed a life-long evolvement with the arts and understanding of the potential for the artist/teacher role of a facilitator of change and an example in the community. The Art Education program combines educational theory and methodology with cultural study and intensive well-diversified studio practice. It is important that the graduate in Art Education have developed:

A high level of skill in interdisciplinary, culturally aware, art making that reflects awareness of recent technologies, history and heritage of art making with an emphasis of knowledge of, and an understanding of, the work produced over the last 100 years.
A thorough understanding of the California Visual Arts Content Standards and The California Visual and Performing Arts Framework as content and standards guide and a valuable classroom resource.
An understanding of the histories and theories of art and art education including adolescent and childhood brain development in relationship to arts learning and learning styles particularly as they relate to differences in culture.
Skills in writing sequential lessons that reflect an understanding of cultural differences and community resources as well as benchmark standards from the California Visual Art Content Standards and the California Visual and Performing Arts Framework.
Skills in classroom management and safety.

Click here for the Art Education Undergraduate Checklist (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).

Advising Information

Faculty

Richard Keely

Richard Keely is an artist and educator from Southern California. Originally trained as a painter Richard’s work more recently has turned towards sculpture and installation. With the sculptural work Richard is concerned with transforming ordinary objects into visually dense wall pieces that evoke an array of emotive possibilities. Richard's Installation projects have been collaborations with San Diego artists Lynn Hendrick and Anna O’Cain. With these installations Keely, Hendrick, and O’Cain explore ideas concerning the visceral side of accumulating, storing, preserving, and communicating ideas and information. Richard’s work has been shown extensively in California including recent local collaborations with Anna O’Cain at the Spruce Street Forum and an educational project for INSITE 2000. Additionally Richard was a “Visiting Artist” at Oberlin College and Montana State University and has been awarded a grant from Art Matters in New York. Richard has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa and has lived and studied Chinese painting in Taipei, Taiwan. Prior to coming to San Diego State University Richard worked for the Carlsbad Unified School districts for 16 years, initially as a teacher and serving his last six years as the district's Arts Coordinator.

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