BIOGRAPHY

Teresa Cotner is from Los Angeles, California. She earned a BA in Art at California State University, Sonoma (1986), an MA in Art History and Single Subject Teaching Credential at California State University, Los Angeles (1995), and a PhD in Art Education at Stanford University (2000). She taught high school art in Los Angeles and after completing her PhD she taught at California State University, San Bernardino for five years and is currently finishing her third year at California State University, Chico.

COURSES TAUGHT

ARTS 100 Art Appreciation: Multicultural Perspectives

ARTH 101 Art History: Pre History through Medieval

ARTS 493 Development of Children's Art (P-8) [also taught online]

ARTS 592 Cultural Diversity in Art Education

SCHOLARSHIP

Dr. Cotner research interests include qualitative inquiry, classroom discourse, integrated arts, and international art curricula. She has published papers in Art Education, Studies in Art Education, the International Journal of Education, a book review in the International Journal of Education and the Arts, and a chapter in Teaching Art in Context. She presents annually at CAEA and NAEA and recently presented a paper at InSEA, Osaka, Japan 2008. In July 2009 Dr. Cotner will present a paper at the International Conference on Learning in Barcelona Spain.

Recent State, National and International Research Papers given at conferences:

InSEA (International Society for Education through the Arts), Osaka, Japan, August 2008
The Road to Becoming an Art Educator in California

CAEA (California Art Education Association), Burlingame, CC, November 2008
Integrating the Five Arts in a 2nd Grade Classroom: Portraiture Using Manga and 19th Century Japanese Influences

NAEA (National Art Education Association), Minneapolis, MN, April 2009
Evolution and Revolution: Integrated Arts, Segregated Arts, Re-Integrated Arts

International Conference on Learning, Barcelona, Spain, July 2009
A Historical, International Comparison of Integrated and Dis-Integrated Arts in Curriculum and Pedagogy

PUBLICATIONS

pending - "Teacher Art Talk: What We Say Matters"

2009 - Book Review Teaching through the Ill Body Teaching and Teacher Education spring 2009

2009 - "Aesthetics, What My Students Taught Me" International Journal of Education

2005 - Book Review Handbook of Art Education Research & Policy in Internation Journal of Education & Art

2003 - "Talking Art in the Limelight" in Teaching Art In Context: Preservice Art Ed. (NAEA)

2001 - "Why Study Classroom Art Talk?" Art Education, v. 54, n.1 (NAEA)

2000 - "Classroom Art Talk" Working Papers in Art Education (NAEA)

1999 - "Speaking the Mind & Minding the Speech" Studies In Art Education, v. 40, n. 4

1997 - The Educationally Interpretive Exhibition National Art Education Association (NAEA)

1992 - "The Right to Write: Graffiti Mural Writing" Incorporation/Annihilation: Culture & Arts (I.U. Press)

STUDENT ADVOCACY

Notably, 3 Chico State students accompanied Dr. Cotner to Japan for the InSEA conference. The students co-presented with her and their expenses were partially funded through Dr. Cotner's Office of Sponsored Programs 2008 Summer Research Stipend. InSEA also provided partial sponsorship to the students for their wok as English Language Editors of the conference catalogue.

Six Chico State students accompanied Dr. Cotner and attended CAEA annual conference in Burlingame, CA, November 2008. Five attended CAEA with Dr. Cotner in Pasadena, CA November 2007.

Dr. Cotner is the Faculty Mentor for the art education student club, Da Da. Da Da has raised over $500 to help with student travel to conferences and museums and also sponsors the annual Art Education Student Exhibition.

Dr. Cotner served two years as a Residence Halls Faculty Mentor at Chico State.