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Austin Clarkson

While teaching music at various universities (Saskatchewan, Columbia, Yale, and York), OAEA member Austin Clarkson saw the need for a course on the creative imagination. With a team of instructors he designed and directed 'Foundations of Creative Imagination' at York University. As a consultant to the Art Gallery of Ontario he contributed a visioning exercise for viewing an artwork to the interpretive exhibit "Explore a Painting in Depth" (1993-2003). The class of 1995 formed such a close-knit group that they stayed together and founded the Milkweed Collective. The Collective has given several group shows at the Neilson Park Creative Centre, and 'Wildfire X' was exhibited at Le Studio Gallery, Lafontaine, in 2011. Since 2002 the qualified artist-teachers of the Collective have provided the arts enrichment program "Exploring Creativity in Depth" to over 4,000 elementary and secondary school students. To learn more Austin's work, visit: http://www.austinclarkson.ca

Shauna Daley

OAEA member Shauna Daley is the owner and main teacher of Art & You in Grimsby. She writes a blog that focuses on integrating the arts with technology into education. She wants to inspire others to find their inner artist and to create their true selves. Visit her main website for more information on her business: https://sites.google.com/site/artandyou5/

Hilary Inwood

Hilary Inwood is an OAEA vice-president who teaches art education and environmental education in the B.Ed program at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary investigations of art education and environmental/sustainability education. Her work as an educator and artist extends beyond the classroom to include school gardens, outdoor education centres, parks and galleries. For more info:
http://www.hilaryinwood.ca

Ian McLean

OAEA member Ian McLean teaches Visual Art and Media Arts at Northern Collegiate in Sarnia, Ontario. A graduate of the University of Guelph, he has exhibited his work professionally for the past twenty years and is currently represented by Loop Gallery in Toronto. Recent solo shows include Forest City Gallery, London and the Glenhyrst Art Gallery, Brantford. Full of allusions to contemporary moral issues, his work explores imagined domestic settings with narratives unravelled through unsettling and often hallucinogenic colour. Ian is a former Curriculum Leader with the Lambton-Kent District School Board. http://www.ianmclean.ca

Pam Patterson

Pam Patterson has been active in the art, dance, theater and women's communities. Her research, performance and teaching have focused on embodiment in art and performance practice, the body in art and performance, disability studies, women and gender studies, and feminist culture theory. She taught movement for theatre for 20 years and performed as a corporal mime, dancer, and actor. Since 1983 her artistic practice has been in visual and performance art. She is currently Artistic Director for the interdisciplinary arts research, practice and presentation program, WIAprojects (http://www.wiaprojects.com) at the Centre for Women's Studies in Education, OISE/UT and teaches at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the Ontario College of Art & Design University. As a performance and visual artist she was a founding member of FADO Performance and ARTIFACTS and has exhibited and performed internationally. For more info on her work, visit:
http://pampatterson-performanceartist.blogspot.com/

Tracy Thomson

Tracy Thomson has specialist qualifications in Visual Arts, Dance and Drama and is currently Instructional Leader, Integrated Arts for the Toronto District School Board. She is thrilled to be working with teachers and students developing equitable and socially responsible engagements in the arts. Tracy recently wrote units for Art Image and for both the OAEA and CODE /Ministry curriculum writing projects and has presented at both OAEA and CODE conferences for the past few years. As Chair of the Awards Committee, she is honoured to be involved in celebrating excellence in art education throughout Ontario. Tracy has appeared in instructional DVDs, webcasts and on television demonstrating and advocating for active and inclusive arts education. In addition to her commitment to arts education, she continues to paint and show her work in festivals, galleries and special events. See her work at www.tracythomson.com.

Matthew Varey

OAEA member Matthew Varey is the ACL of Visual Arts at Etobicoke School of the Arts. He has shown in Venice (at the Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa with Marcel Dzama and Marc Seguin), in Berlin, Cologne, Miami, Greece and across Canada, with an exhibition history that has spanned twenty five years. His work is centred on understanding the chronic function that certainty and belief have played in the construction of society and human behaviour. The most recent works he has made use imagery from the Second World War as visual language to engage with his audience and human history to create conduits of meaning that reveal some of what we use as a basis for understanding today. He have five exhibitions in 2012, information for which will be available on:
http://matthewvarey.com/#bottom

Tammy Watt

OAEA member Tammy Watt is a graduate of the B.Ed program from the University of Calgary and of the Master of Arts program from the University of Phoenix. She teaches secondary art for the Calgary Board of Education. She works with acrylic paint and takes pleasure in the challenges of design fundamentals and colour relationships. She paints to feel more alive, more energetic and more spiritually connected to something greater than herself. She envisions her projects but understands that when her loaded brush hits the canvas her paintings take on a life all of their own. I try to stay out of her head and let the decisions come from divine source. View her work at: http://web.mac.com/tammywatt

Rebecca Zak

Rebecca Zak is an OAEA member and artist/researcher/teacher currently teaching in Peel and undertaking a PhD in education at Brock University. Her doctoral research centers on nurturing creativity in and outside the classroom. Rebecca is also an oil painter who favours working in both abstraction and high realism. She is the recipient of the 2011 ETFO Art & Culture Award for her children's book, The Cutest Face, which features her painted portraits of a diverse class of kids. Visit her website at: http://www.lifeinpaint.com

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