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PhD Art History (American), University of Delaware; MAT Museum Education, George Washington University; MA History of Art, University of Toronto; BA Religion and Art History, Oberlin College. Annie is founding head of the Corcoran’s degree programs in Art Education. Before the Corcoran, she was head of Education for the American Association of Museums, Director of Arts Management programs at American University, and a museum director in New England. In 1985, she was among the first 14 Americans awarded the three-year National Graduate Fellowship by the U.S. Department of Education, for her cross-disciplinary dissertation combining education and art history. Between 1994 and 1996, she was an author/contributor, in Building a Nation of Learners, the U.S. government’s first policy statement on lifelong learning and cross-disciplinary learning studies.



 

FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES: Art Education Degree Programs
The Corcoran’s Department of Education Studies is founded on the power of its nationally and internationally respected full-time and part-time faculty. Each member of the team was selected for their exemplary instructional methodologies, contributions to public service, innovation in teaching, and their commitment to professional education through the development of a conceptually new approach to life-learning and art education.

Raya Bodnarchuk
Faculty
MFA, Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute, College of Art; BFA, Rhode Island School of Design. Public Commissions include sculpture for WSSC on Route 95, public schools and libraries, graphics, logos, and drawings. Her work is included in the collections of the National Museum of American Art and the National Institutes of Health. She was selected from the ranked, experienced Studio Faculty of the Corcoran College of Art + Design as the Art Education degree program’s anchor for core graduate studio instruction, incorporating consideration of studio pedagogy. In 2007, she was elected by her peers for the Corcoran’s highest teaching award.

Rebecca Borden
Adjunct Faculty
MEd and PhD, University of Virginia; BA, Williams College. Borden heads the professional education program of Americans for the Arts. She was the senior associate for research at the Arts Education Partnership and a consultant for national education programs at the American Architectural Foundation. She serves on the Education Committee of the board of trustees at the National Building Museum and the Steering Committee of the Architecture and Design Education Network. She has been invited to adjudicate grants for VSA arts and the U.S. Department of Education. A former high school chemistry teacher, Borden still loves the classroom and is an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia.

Teresia Bush
Adjunct Faculty
MA and BA Art History, Howard University; Certified in Arts Management, American University and in Museum Management, Museum Leadership Institute, University of California, Berkeley. While on the Education faculty at the Corcoran, she is concurrently Assistant Professor of Art History, Howard University. For more than 25 years, Bush was with the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, where she held several positions, including Senior Educator. Before the Hirshhorn, Bush was a curator with the New Muse in Brooklyn, Assistant Director of Library Community Services Department, D.C. Public Library, and an Educator at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Judith Gravitz
Adjunct Faculty
MS Education, Wheelock College; Certified (Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle School). Judy is an early childhood specialist with experience in art education, gallery interactive learning and storytelling, as well as classroom experience with young learners. She is a researcher and curriculum designer, with direct instructional experience at the National Gallery of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Museum of African Art and Boston Children’s Museum. Her combination of both formal and informal teaching methods and settings span the settings of museum and classroom.

Selila Honig
School Partnership Coordinator & Adjunct Faculty
MEd, Lesley College; Certified in Middle School and Special Education. Honig has expertise in special education integration and multidisciplinary curriculum development for learners in the middle grades. She was a pilot teacher for the portfolio assessment project of Project Zero, Harvard’s famed arts education “think tank.” Honig studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and is a practicing artist. She is Faculty Supervisor of our teaching partnership with John F. Cook Elementary School (DCPS), generously funded by the Daniel DiTondo Foundation.

Maria Marable-Bunch
Student Teaching and Internship Supervisor & Adjunct Faculty
BFA University of the Arts; MAT Museum Education, George Washington University; Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. To her roles as both mentor and instructor, Marable-Bunch brings expertise in integrated museum art education in history, science, literature, reading, or writing. She has created professional development programs for Pre-K–12 teachers on object-based learning enhance classroom instruction and improve student learning. She has worked in the Philadelphia Art Museum; Kidspace Children’s Museum, Pasadena, CA; Smithsonian Institution; the National Gallery of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago, and other major museums. She has extensive experience working with superintendents, curriculum specialists, principals, parents, and other educational specialists in public schools creating in-depth programs that draw on museum resources. Through her work at the Smithsonian Institution and the Art Institute of Chicago, she managed partnerships with the District of Columbia Public Schools and Chicago Public Schools to create museum schools in these cities.

Donna McKee
Adjunct Faculty
MA and BA Art History, The American University; MAED Art Education, Fine Arts, University of Hartford. McKee was a museum professional for more than 20 years and education director at The Phillips Collection from 1986 to 2000. She has presented public programs at The National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Smithsonian Resident Associates Program, and has lectured in museums throughout the country. She has taught art history at the University of Hartford, Northern Virginia Community College, and Montgomery College.
Donna is among those on the Art Education faculty team who have combined museum education and classroom teaching throughout their careers, to probe the relationship between them. In particular, she has specialized in adult learning, and is simultaneously a leading instructor for the non-profit organization Arts for the Aging.

Marla Mclean
Adjunct Faculty
MA Studio Art, New York University; BA Social Art/Education from Goddard College, VT. She is one of the Artists-in-Residence at The Greenbelt Community Center creating conceptual sculptural assemblage and mixed media visual art. For over a decade she has served as Atelierista, and one of six teachers running the School-Within-School at Peabody, a Reggio Emilia-inspired, Teacher-directed, DC Public School.

Manuel Navarette
Community Arts Specialist and Adjunct Faculty, Printmaking
BFA, The Catholic University at Lima Peru. Graduate studies: Licenciattura in Printmaking, The Catholic University at Lima. Navarrete is an accomplished artist mastering printmaking, mural painting, and digital media. As an arts educator, Navarrete has 17 years of experience designing, managing, and implementing original instructional programs in the local communities. Through this commitment to developing relevant community-based art education in multicultural settings in the District of Columbia, he promotes young artists as well as mentors new educators through critical reflection on the methods of the creative process and the roles of social agency in the pedagogical exchange. He is currently the senior lead art teacher at Centronia center in the Columbia Heights/Mount Pleasant area.

George Rathbone
Adjunct Faculty
MEd Psychology and MA Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University; Nationally Certified Professional Counselor and Nationally Certified Cognitive Behavior Therapist. George brings extensive experience in both early childhood education and psycho-educational therapy to the program for use in understanding the psychological perspective of creativity development. Further, he is an expert in the areas of special education and pre-school education, and offers insight into the planning of appropriate educational activities for students with disabilities.

A.T. Stephens
Thesis/Research Coordinator
MA History and Museum Administration, Wake Forest University. AT is Director of CAM (Contemporary Art Museum), an initiative of the College of Design at NC State University. A Kellogg Fellow in Museum Education, he has served as a Board member or Chair of virtually every major research or service organization in museums and audience studies, including the President’s Commission for a national museum of African American History. His work focuses on the needs of different learning communities over a lifetime and in cross-curricular settings and programs that foster a greater public knowledge of American culture and art in the context of history.