John Howell White is Art
Education Professor and Department Chair at Kutztown University. John has a
wide experience in the field of art education holding previous positions
including:2007-08 faculty Virginia
Beach School District and Virginia Center for Contemporary Art; 2007 VAST
Program, Philadelphia Museum of Art; 1998, 1995, 1990 consultant, Getty Center
for Education in the Arts; 1989-91 Penn State University graduate
assistantship; 1988-89 Crossroads School for the Arts, Santa Monica, CA;
1976-88 Art Teacher and Department Head for Sewickley Academy, PA .
John holds a B.A. from the
University of Colorado, an M.F.A. from Pratt Institute, and a Ph.D. from The
Pennsylvania State University.
·Director of NAEA Higher Education Division
·NAEA Chair, Council for Policy Studies
in Art Education
·2005-09 Editorial Advisory Board, Studies in Art Education
·1999 NAEA Manuel Barkan Award
·Presentations at numerous NAEA Conventions
·PAEA conference presentations:Historical Questions panel
(2001), Rethinking Community Based Art
Education (2000), Intersection:School Arts Magazine and Naïve American
Culture (1995), Arts Day – Pre
Service Students with KU students (1993), Native
American presence in Art Education (1991)
·Historian and archivist for School
Arts Magazine for Davis Publications
Author of numerous selected
book chapters in art education
What do his
nominators say?
“…he gathered together a team of scholars from
fields as diverse as history, geology, chemistry, folk-life studies,
anthropology, biology, and, of course, art, to explore the Schuylkill River
from its headwaters in central PA to where it joins the Delaware in
Philadelphia…to help students see the many unexpected connections that art has
to all other aspects of our lives.” – Marilyn Stewart, Ph.D, Professor of Art
Education at Kutztown University
“Presently, John serves as Director of the NAEA
Higher Education Division.As a part of
this responsibility, he maintains a network of correspondence with the national
organization’s membership through the NAEAnews
and an on-line listserve.” – Peg Speirs, Ph.D, Interim Associate Dean for
College of Visual and Performing Arts at Kutztown University
“I have watched John escort Kutztown art
education students to attend the annual PAEA Conference and to support, through
his attendance, his students who were presenting and being recognized with
awards…” – Jackie Thomas, retired Assistant Superintendent, Williamsport Area
School District
