dr. penelope miller
Assistant Professor, Art Education

pmiller@coastal.edu
843.349-2591
Edwards Humanities and Fine Arts Bldg., Rm. 133

PhD. Art Education, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Dissertation title: Tearing down racist images: a cognitive understanding.

Masters of Arts, Art & Design: Art Education, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Thesis title: Selected gender influences affecting the development of the Applied Art Department of Iowa State University: A case study of Professor Joanne Hansen's administration, 1919-1941.

Bachelor of Arts: Art Education. Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

Professor Miller taught elementary art classes for 13 years, and then began training artists to be art teachers in higher education. She taught in several Midwestern universities before moving to Coastal Carolina University. She has teaching K12 Art certificates in Iowa and Ohio. Four summers, she taught urban children at the Neighborhood Art House in Erie PA.

As the Head of Art Education Area at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, she rewrote the entire art education program and coursework including official approval through the faculty senate and received program accreditations from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, NCATE and NASAD.

She is invited to speak each year at the National Art Education Association Conference since 1990. From 2000-2004, she was the president and then the secretary for the NAEA’s Young Child Special Interest Group. In 2007 she helped begin a new NAES special interest group on Urban Art Education. In 2009 Miller speaks at AERA convention on student learning research sponsored by a CCU SOTL grant.

At Coastal Carolina, Miller introduces education majors to the discipline of art. She developed the ARTES 379 Cultural Foundations of Craft, which focuses on students’ understanding of learn how they learn crafts. Textbook examples are from third world countries.

Research interests are in urban art education, learning in arts and crafts, and the history of art education. Recent publications include a chapter in Philadelphia Urban Seminar Book and Association for Childhood Education International Newsletter, “Classrooms set on fire: Passionate meaning making through the arts” June 2008. Miller has received local and regional recognition for her watercolors, pastels and fiber surface design.