Karen Raney
…is currently lecturer in art and art theory at the University of East London; editor of Engage Review, the magazine of Engage, the national association for gallery education; and working on a book with the Arts Council called 'Art in Question'. From 1996-98 she was research fellow at Middlesex University, investigating visual literacy in a project with the Arts Council. She has lectured and written widely on art and visual education.

email: kraney@onetel.net.uk

Selected publications:
1999 'Art Education and Talk: from modernist silence to postmodern chatter', with Howard Hollands, chapter in Sefton-Greene & Sinker (eds) Evaluating Creativity, Routledge 1999

1999 'Visual Literacy and the Art Curriculum' in Journal of Art and Design Education, issue 8.1

1997 Visual Literacy: issues and debates, Middlesex University Press

Selected Conference Papers:
Sept.1997 'Ambiguity in drawing' - keynote speech, at DRAW-UM: a research forum for the discussion of objectives, priorities and values in Art & Design Education, Loughborough University

June 1997 'Art History into Visual Culture' at Art Historians in Action conference, Art Historians Association & Tate Gallery, London

April 1997 'Reflections on Painting' at Arts, Media and Representation Colloquium, Carleton University, Ottawa

Feb 1997 'Questioning Visual literacy' at The Arts in the Curriculum conference, visual arts discussion group, School Currirulum Assessment Authority and the Dept. of National Heritage, London

Aug 1996 'Framing visual and verbal experience' at AN's Round Midnight Education Colloquium, Charlotte Mason College, Cumbria