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comprehensive and sequential art lessons




Program Coordinator: Katherine Schwartz, Ph.D

Graduate Director: Karin Tollefson-Hall, Ph.D

The Art Education Center at James Madison University serves as a common voice for the advancement of art education in the university community and local school districts. The progams support the National Art Standards and the Virginia Standards of Learning for Visual Art. To carry out its mission, the Art Education Center provides undergraduate and graduate programs in art education, seminars, lectures, community activities, art education research, and summer art programs for students and adults.