nscad drawing lab
2004: in response to an application from Dalhousie university's cognitive neuroscientist Raymond M. Klein and from me, SSHRC - Canada's Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council - provides funding to equip and sustain a laboratory where teaching observational drawing can be studied at NSCAD by artists, educators and scientists.
2013-14: for eighteen months, NSCAD Lab equipment is mothballed due to the university administration's decision that a "lack of funded space" necessarily precludes their support. Undeterred, the team expands to include Mathew Reichertz (NSCAD Fine Arts faculty) and research is relocated to Dalhousie's Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.
2015: Dr. John Christie (Dalhousie university neuroscience faculty) joins the team and, with new SSHRC support, the Drawing Lab is reestablished in NSCAD's Academy Building.
2018: Amanda Burk (Nippissing University Fine Art faculty) joins the team. Research expands to involve faculty, students and research assistants at NSCAD, Dalhousie & Nippissing universities.
2020-21: under Covid 19 protocol, Lab discussions continue remotely via Zoom and FaceTime, and Dr. Tim Fedak (artist and Nova Scotia Museum curator of geology) joins the team.
2021: SSHRC awards a new Insight grant to the Drawing Lab.
2022: time for me to retire from the Drawing Lab after an enjoyable and productive seventeen years including eight after retiring from teaching. I am particularly grateful to Ray Klein, whose interest, patience, energy and expertise have made the Drawing Lab experience much more than I ever imagined possible. Finally I am pleased to say that, following publication of a number of peer-reviewed papers, our book Researching the Teaching of Drawing is now published.
2013-14: for eighteen months, NSCAD Lab equipment is mothballed due to the university administration's decision that a "lack of funded space" necessarily precludes their support. Undeterred, the team expands to include Mathew Reichertz (NSCAD Fine Arts faculty) and research is relocated to Dalhousie's Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.
2015: Dr. John Christie (Dalhousie university neuroscience faculty) joins the team and, with new SSHRC support, the Drawing Lab is reestablished in NSCAD's Academy Building.
2018: Amanda Burk (Nippissing University Fine Art faculty) joins the team. Research expands to involve faculty, students and research assistants at NSCAD, Dalhousie & Nippissing universities.
2020-21: under Covid 19 protocol, Lab discussions continue remotely via Zoom and FaceTime, and Dr. Tim Fedak (artist and Nova Scotia Museum curator of geology) joins the team.
2021: SSHRC awards a new Insight grant to the Drawing Lab.
2022: time for me to retire from the Drawing Lab after an enjoyable and productive seventeen years including eight after retiring from teaching. I am particularly grateful to Ray Klein, whose interest, patience, energy and expertise have made the Drawing Lab experience much more than I ever imagined possible. Finally I am pleased to say that, following publication of a number of peer-reviewed papers, our book Researching the Teaching of Drawing is now published.
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