• Leonard Lehrer (Chair)
• Dean, School of Fine and Performing Arts, Columbia College Chicago

Leonard Lehrer is a painter and printmaker whose work has been shown internationally for three decades. He has had 43 solo exhibitions in the United States, Germany, Austria, and Spain. Museums that have collected examples of his work include the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; Bibliothéque Nationale de France in Paris; and the Sprengel Museum of Art in Hannover, Germany. He was formerly the director of the School of Art, Arizona State University and chair, Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University. Lehrer also serves as a trustee of the International Print Center New York (IPCNY); apexart, in New York; and the International Centre for Culture & Management (ICCM) in Salzburg, Austria. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Grand Prize of the Heitland Foundation, Celle, Germany; a Gold Medal Award of Distinction of the National Society of Arts and Letters; and a United States Information Agency (USIA) Specialist Grant to the arts graduate programs of La Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. He was awarded printmaking grants in Greece from the Artist-in-Residence Fulbright Scholar Program and the Fulbright Senior Scholar Alumni Initiative Awards.

• Andrea Feeser
• Associate Professor, Modern and Contemporary Art, Theory, & Criticism, Clemson University

Andrea Feeser received a B.A. in 1984 from Williams College, with a double major in history and art history. In 1996, she received a Ph.D. in modern and contemporary art history, theory, and criticism from the City University of New York Graduate Center. Jack Flam and Linda Nochlin supervised her dissertation on Picasso's art and politics from 1942-1962. Feeser has taught courses at the Purchase campus of the State University of New York, the Hayward campus of the California State University, and the California College of Arts and Crafts. She was assistant and associate professor of art history at the University of Hawaii, Manoa from 1996-2002, and is currently associate professor of art history at Clemson University. Feeser has published widely on modern and contemporary art and visual culture, and is the editor for the Parlor Press book series, Aesthetic Critical Inquiry. In 1998, Feeser and the artist Gaye Chan founded DownWind Productions—a collaborative of activists, artists, and educators—to explore the past and present effects of colonialism and capitalism in Waikiki. DownWind Productions distributes information through the public art project Historic Waikiki, and the book Waikiki: A History of Forgetting and Remembering (University of Hawaii Press, 2006). Historic Waikiki was featured in the 2004 New York Asia Society exhibition Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific. Feeser is currently working on a book that examines the material and cultural history of indigo in eighteenth-century South Carolina and England.

• Mac Arthur Goodwin
• Executive Director of Goodwin's Arts Consulting, P.C.

Mac Arthur Goodwin began his teaching career as an elementary school teacher. He subsequently taught at every level, from kindergarten through higher education, during his distinguished career in arts education. He chaired the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts visual arts summer honors program. Goodwin also served as the education consultant for the visual and performing arts with the South Carolina Department of Education from 1985-2000. He coordinated the state's Advanced Placement Program^® during his tenure with the South Carolina Department of Education. Goodwin is in demand at the national level as a consultant and keynote speaker. Recent national level activities include the: National Art Education Association Convention in Miami, Florida; National Art Education Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Governor's Conference on Arts Education in Honolulu, Hawaii; Very Special Arts International Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida; Empire State Summer Seminar in Albany, New York and Bridging Program and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Education, in Washington, D.C. Goodwin's national level involvements in arts education include: National Art Education Association president, National Supervision and Administration Division director, and Art Education Standards Development Task Force member. He chaired the Consortium of National Professional Arts Associations. Goodwin was vice-chair of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood/Art Standards Committee. He served on the development committees for the following national initiatives: the National Assessment of Educational Progress Arts Assessment Framework Consensus (NAEP) and the NAEP Visual and Performing Arts Assessment Task Development Team and Arts Assessment Standing. He is a consultant with Educational Testing Service, Inc. His state-level services include serving as chair of the South Carolina African American Monument Citizen Advisory Committee and the South Carolina Alliance for Arts Education, a member of the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, and on the board of directors for the State Department of Education Representative, the Columbia Museum of Art, and the South Carolina Arts Alliance.

• Robert Lazuka
• Professor, School of Art, Ohio University

Robert Lazuka has been a member of the faculty at Ohio University since 1984. He studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago and printmaking at Arizona State University, where he received a M.F.A. degree. Lazuka has been involved with the Advanced Placement Program^® in Studio Art since 1988, serving as the chief faculty consultant from 1997- 2000. He has been a member of the Studio Art Development Committee since 2001, and began a four-year term as chair in 2003. Lazuka's prints are in many collections, including the Permanent Collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of Art in Washington, D.C.; the Whitney Museum of Art in New York; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri; the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University in Boston; the Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum in Lagrange, Georgia; and the Baseball Hall of Fame Museum in Cooperstown, New York. He has had numerous one-person exhibitions including On the Horizon, at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina and Prints on the Landscape, at Columbus Cultural Arts Center in Columbus, Ohio. His artworks have also been shown in the group exhibitions in Rock and Roller at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio; the 26th National Print and Drawing Exhibition at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois; and the 20th Harper National Print and Drawing Exhibition at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois.

• Robin Lithgow
• Theatre Specialist in Arts Education, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)

Robin Lithgow is the elementary arts coordinator in the LAUSD. In this position, she is working to implement dance, theatre, music, and visual arts education into the core curriculum of all LAUSD schools, from kindergarten through twelfth grade. This will build a foundation for a substantive and sequential K-12 arts curriculum.

• Winnie Owens-Hart
• Professor, Ceramics, Howard University

• Pamela Paulson
• Director of the Research, Assessment, and Curriculum Center (RACC), Perpich Center for Arts Education

Pamela Paulson is one of the founding directors of the Perpich Center, which was created by the Minnesota Legislature in 1985. The Center was given statewide responsibility for arts education by the Legislature in May, 1994. As director of RACC, she is responsible for collecting, translating, and disseminating research, as well as conducting research and evaluation in arts education. Paulson created and directs the Arts Education Research Grant Program to provide opportunities for teachers and artists to design action research studies. She is also researching and directing arts assessment development in six arts areas, as part of the Minnesota Graduation Standards and Accountability Testing system.