Which Authors are going to be in the Book Nook?
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Chair: Dr. Yichen Cooper
Pin-Hsuan Tseng
Ling-yu Chou
Samantha Nolte-Yupari, Ph.D
30 Kids, 1 Sink: The Art Teacher’s Complete Guide to Classroom Choreography and Materials Management
Samantha Nolte-Yupari is the co-author of 30 Kids, 1 Sink. She received her Master’s and Ph. D. in Art Education from Virginia Commonwealth University and The Pennsylvania State University respectively. Her interests include embodied learning, place, and teacher education which she considers using visual ethnographic and arts-based methods. Samantha was awarded Fellowships at both institutions and received the Hoffa Dissertation Award (PSU); and a National Dissertation Award, Arts and Learning SIG (AERA). Her artistic practice as a watercolorist and book artist focused on Wanderings (moments discovered while walking) and Discover-ings (abstracted and thematic works created in emergent and bottom-up processes) grounded in walking and the mundane. She is currently Full Professor and Program Director of Art Education, Nazareth University, Rochester, NY. ORCID: 0000-0002-8691-6305
Dr. Amber Ward
Dr. Amber Ward is Pearl Tyner Associate Professor of Art Education at Florida State University, USA. Her scholarship draws on arts-informed research to explore how craft, feminism, and sustainability nurture more just ways of being. It also considers who and what matters in a more-than-human world. These commitments shape her book, Relational Encounters with Folk School Pedagogies: Craft as Creative Inquiry (Routledge, 2025), which studies how folk school pedagogies contribute to educational research. The book received a 2026 Publication Award from NAEA’s Ecology and Environment Interest Group. With a background in fibers, she has returned to a budding weaving practice.
Debrah Sickler-Voigt, Ph.D
Debrah (Debbie) C. Sickler-Voigt, Ph.D. has a passion for teaching and learning that is contagious! As a professor of art education, author, and consultant, she emphasizes a “Yes, We Can” approach. She provides educators at all levels of experience, students, and others interested in art and education a sense of empowerment as they learn innovative methods for teaching, learning, creating, managing, and assessing art. Her research and creative scholarship provide pathways for success in today’s diversified classroom and community settings. Sicker-Voigt developed her textbook, Teaching and Learning in Art Education: Cultivating Students’ Potential from Pre-K Through High School, (published by Routledge) as an accessible tool to teach others individualize approaches to bridging contemporary theories with best practices.
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