Editorial: Cloudy Connections, Overcast Predictions

Karen Keifer-Boyd, Ph.D., Professor of Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, co-authored several books: Teaching and Assessing Social Justice Art Education: Power, Politics, Possibilities (Routledge, 2023); Lobby Activism: Feminism(s)+Art Education (NAEA, 2021); Including Difference (NAEA, 2013); InCITE, InSIGHT, InSITE (NAEA, 2008); Engaging Visual Culture (Davis, 2007); and co-edited Real-World Readings in Art Education: Things Your Professors Never Told You (Falmer, 2000); and has more than 80 journal publications. Her research focuses on transdisciplinary creativity, inclusion, feminist art pedagogy, transcultural dialogue, action research, and eco-social justice art, and has been translated and published in Austria, Brazil, China, Columbia, Finland, Oman, and S. Korea. She is a recipient of a National Art Education Foundation grant (2017-2018) for social justice art education and a National Science Foundation grant (2010-2012) regarding gender barriers in technology. She is the recipient of several awards from the National Art Education Association (NAEA) including the 2020 Eisner Lifetime Achievement Awardee, 2015 Art Education & Technology Outstanding Research Awardee, 2014 Women’s Caucus June King McFee Awardee, NAEA Distinguished Fellow Class of 2013, and the 2013 Ziegfeld Awardee. She was the 2012 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Gender Studies at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, and a 2006 Fulbright Scholar in Finland. Current collaborative projects include developing online teaching resources: Wo/Manhouse 2022, Augmented Encounters, and Indigeneity & Disability Justice Art Exhibition.