who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Miguel Domínguez Rigo
Complutense University of Madrid,
Didactics of Plastic Expression,
Faculty of Education, office 1609, c/
Rector Royo Vilanova s/n, Madrid,
28040, Spain
Keywords art therapy, gender equity,
social change and inclusion, education
Howard Riley
Swansea Metropolitan University,
Dynevor Centre for Arts Design and
Media, De La Beche Street, Swansea,
SA1 3EU, United Kingdom
Keywords art pedagogy, artworld,
conceptual intrigue, perceptual
intrigue
Lawrence Rinder
Keywords poet, playwright, essayist,
novelist, curating
The research group ‘Aplicaciones del arte para la inclusión social: arte,
terapiay educación para la diversidad’ (Applications of art for social
inclusion: art, therapy and education for diversity) is a part of a larger
team of teaching staff at the Complutense University of Madrid, which
has promoted studies on art, social inclusion and art therapy, to a
European M.A. and Ph.D. The group, composed of Primary and
Secondary Schools teachers, professorsat the Faculty of Education and
researchers on Art Education and Art Therapy, has published a variety
of books on art therapy and social inclusion, such as Creación y
posibilidad/Creation and Possibility (López FernándezCao 2006) and
Arteterapia y educación/Art Therapy and Education (Martínez Díez
and López Fernández Cao 2004), and a collection of thirteen
educational projects under the name ‘Posibilidades de ser
› Social functions of art: Educational, clinical, social and cultural settings.
Trying a new methodology, International Journal of Education through Art,
6.3, 397-412.
Howard Riley is Professor of Visual Communication and Head of the
School of Research and Postgraduate Studies at the Dynevor Centre for
Arts, Design & Media, Swansea Metropolitan University. He has
taught drawing, and the history and theory of art and design in
Australia and Malaysia as well as the United Kingdom. His
publications are in the fields of visual semiotics and multimodality,
generative art and his drawings have most recently been exhibited in
the the Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff, the Wales Drawing Biennale, and at
the Elysium Artspace, Swansea.
› Firing Practice: Drawing as Empowerment, Journal of Visual Art Practice,
1.3, 150-161.
› Beyond the horizon: future directions for the teaching of visual arts practice,
Journal of Visual Art Practice, 6.1, 73-80.
Lawrence Rinder is the Director of the Berkeley Art Museum and
Pacific Film Archive. He was formerly Dean of the College at the
California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Oakland. He has
held curatorial positions at the Walker Art Center, the Whitney
Museum of American Art and the Berkeley Art Museum. He was the
Founding Director of the Wattis Institute at the California College of
the Arts. He is a published poet, playwright, essayist and novelist.