who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Marjo van Hoorn
Cultuurnetwerk Nederland, P.O. Box
61, Utrecht, 3500 AB, Netherlands
Keywords art education, culture
Barbara Howey
Columbia University, United
Kingdom
Keywords art, creative practice,
cultural memory, mixed media, textile
art
Alison Hsiang-Yi Liu
National Taiwan Normal University,
Art Education, Arts Department, 19,
Da-Tong West Road,, Taoyuan,
Taoyuan, 33065, Taiwan
Keywords online community,
blogging, museum websites, visitor
studies
Marjo van Hoorn is a senior staff member in Research and Policy at
Cultuurnetwerk Nederland, the national centre of expertise for Arts
Education in the Netherlands. Her current work includes research on
national arts education policy and directing the monitoring and
evaluation of Cultuurnetwerk Nederlands’ own activities.
› The U-curve going Dutch: Cultural differences in judgements of artwork
from different age and expertise groups, International Journal of Education
through Art, 7.2, 153-169.
Barbara Howey is Course Leader for the MA Art, Design and
Education, and MA Coordinator. Her research has focused on issues of
personal and cultural memory. She has pursued this through
exhibitions, conference papers and publications. The form of the
creative work has been mostly in painting but she has collaborated with
a weaver to produce a jacquard weave and have made short video
pieces. Her current research at Columbia University is researching into
institutional memory.
› Self/Painting Practice/Social Practice, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 1.3,
136-149.
Alison works in the Museum of World Religions as an Exhibition
Designer as well as Assistant Curator. She holds a doctorate from the
Department of Art Education, National Taiwan Normal University, and
is still enrolled in an online MA program in Museum Studies at Johns
Hopkins University, USA. She holds her first MA in Visual Art and
Creative Arts in Education from the University of Exeter, UK. Prior to
her current academic pursuits, Alison worked as a primary school
teacher for ten years, with an enthusiasm for arts teaching and
curriculum design. She has been involved in museum-based local
community practice, worked as a docent in an art museum biennale,
and assisted a national research initiative applying museum digital
collections into arts classrooms. For her Ph.D. she has drawn on this
interdisciplinary background in art and museum education to study the
potential of the Web.
› Using online communities to attract museum visitors, International Journal
of Education through Art, 4.3, 259-274.