who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Sharon Irish
University of Illinois, School of
Architecture, 611 Taft Drive, 117
Buell Hall, M-C 621, Champaign,
Illinois, 61820, United States of
America
Keywords Puerto Rico,
consumerism, oppression, commercial
space, neo- or post-colonialism,
Rita L. Irwin
The University of British Columbia,
Scarfe Teacher Education Office,
2125 Main, Mall Canada, V6T 1Z4,
Canada
Keywords identity, community,
transnational cities, research/creation
methodology, public space
Makoto Ishikawa
Kyoto University of education, Art
education, graduate School of
education, Kyoto University of
Education, 611 Fukakusa Fujinomori,
developing knowledge-based strategies in organizations.
› Knowledge creation, business and art: exploring the contradictions and
commonalities, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 6.2, 141-154.
Sharon Irish is Interim Director of the Community Informatics
Initiative and a Lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States. She is the author of the
art monograph, Suzanne Lacy: Spaces Between (University of
Minnesota Press, 2010), as well as publications on artists Nek Chand
Saini, Anish Kapoor, Stephen Willats and the architect Cass Gilbert.
Her current research involves two main directions: critical spatial
practices in the United States, and second order cybernetics in 1970s
art in England and the United States.
› Along Paseo Boricua: The Art of Josué Pellot Gonzalez, Journal of Arts &
Communities, 1.2, 115-127.
Rita Irwin is Professor of Art Education and Curriculum Studies, and
Associate Dean of Teacher Education in the Faculty of Education at
The University of British Columbia. Although she may be best known
for her work in developing a form of arts-based educational research
called a/r/tography, she is also well known for her leadership roles in
professional organizations. Most notably, she is the current president of
the International Society for Education through Art.
› Research and creation: Socially-engaged art in The City of Richgate Project,
International Journal of Education through Art, 6.2, 213-227.
› Rendering Embodied Heteroglossic Spaces, Journal of Arts & Communities,
1.2, 129-146.
Author is Professor of Art Education at the Graduate School of
Education, Kyoto University of Education, Japan. He researches art
appreciation for lifelong learning. His research focuses on advancing
the collaboration between schools and museums. In 2008, he conducted
the trial exhibition, Between Kaku (Writing) & Kaku (Drawing):
Children and the MOMAK Collection, at the National Museum of