Olivia Gude

Background

About Olivia Gude

Olivia Gude is the Angela Gregory Paterakis Professor of Art Education and Chair of Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The National Art Education Association awarded her the Viktor Lowenfeld Award for significant contributions to the field of art education in 2009 and in 2014 she was the recipient of the NAEA’s Manuel Barkan “article of the year” award. In 2019, Olivia Gude was named a Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association. Professor Gude served as a member of the Visual Arts writing team for the new National Visual Arts Standards and is a member of the Council for Policy Studies in Art Education. Olivia Gude’s research focuses on developing new paradigms for visual art curriculum; her articles include: Drawing Color Lines, Postmodern Principles. Principles of Possibility, Art Education for Democratic Life, and New School Art Styles: The Project of Art Education. Professor Gude works with art teachers to foster the collaborative creation of new curriculum models in school districts, including the Chicago Public Schools, Atlanta Public Schools, Cobb County School District in Georgia, the Los Angeles United School District, and the Singapore Ministry of Education. Professor Gude has given many keynotes and workshops at universities, museums, school districts and art education conferences in the U.S. and Canada, as well as in Europe and Asia. She has created many award-winning collaborative mural and mosaic projects. In recent years, she has united her work as a community artist and art educator by creating participatory spaces in which teachers investigate and re-invent the social practice of art education.