who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

George Kyeyune
Makerere University, School of Art,
PO Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda
Keywords Uganda, modern art, art
education, Musango
Tarja-Kaarina Laamanen
University of Helsinki, Center for
Research on Activity, Development
and Learning, PO Box 9,
Siltavuorenpenger 1 A, Helsinki, FI-
00014, Finland
Keywords craft, craft-based design,
art, design activity, social interaction
Vasiliki Labitsi
University of the Aegean, Preschool
Education, Propondithos 16, Oropos
Attikis, 19015, Greece
Keywords children's drawing,
preschool and primary education, art
education, visual narrative, children's
books, illustration, Greece
George Kyeyune is a graduate artist with degrees from the Margaret
Trowell School of Fine Arts (now the Margaret Trowell School of
Industrial and Fine Arts), Makerere University, Uganda and the
Maharaja Sayajiraho University of Baroda, India. In 1990 he took up a
teaching position in Sculpture at Makarere Art School where he is now
Associate Professor of Sculpture. In 1999 he received a
Commonwealth scholarship for doctoral study in the history of African
art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London. His studies focus specifically on changes and developments in
Uganda’s visual art in the twentieth century. He is a member of the
Ngoma International Artists Workshop.
› Francis Musango: his contribution to art and art education in Uganda,
International Journal of Education through Art, 1.2, 127-142.
Tarja-Kaarina Laamanen is a craft-based designer and a doctoral
student in the Department of Home Economics and Craft Science. She
is writing her Ph.D. concerning early phases of the design process. Her
research includes the nature of design activity, the nature of ideation,
internal and external representations, the nature of mental images and
the role of social interaction.
› Sources of inspiration and mental image in textile design process, Art,
Design & Communication in Higher Education, 7.2, 105-119.
Vasiliki Labitsi is an educational consultant for the Greek Ministry of
Education as well as being a children's book illustrator and teaching art
education in the Education Department at Athens University. She has
undergraduate degrees in Primary Education and Sociology, Master's
degrees in Art Education and Children's Literature and has also studied
illustration. She has recently completed a Ph.D. in Art Education at
Roehampton University. She has illustrated children's books for several
Greek publishing houses and her illustrations have been exhibited in
Greece and Europe. She has also worked as assistant editor of the
International Journal of Education Through Art.
› ‘Climbing to reach the sunset’: an inquiry into the representation of narrative
structures in Greek children's drawings, International Journal of Education
through Art, 3.3, 185-193.