nscad drawing lab - the time line
2002: consultation with Dalhousie university's cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Raymond M. Klein, regarding the nature of attention during the process of observational drawing.
2003: assisted by NSCAD faculty colleague Susan Wood and Ray Klein, we visit the Ethology lab of Dalhousie university's Dr. Simon Gabdbois, animal behaviour psychologist. Dr. Gadbois loans us the space and equipment for a short experiment.
2004: Based upon the initial experiment and following detailed discussion of how to proceed, Ray and I submit an application to SSHRC - Canada's Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council - to equip and sustain a laboratory at NSCAD where teaching observational drawing can be studied by artists, educators and scientists. One year later and with the help of SSHRC funding the first experimental study is mounted.
2013-14: for eighteen months, NSCAD Lab equipment is mothballed due to the university administration's decision that a "lack of funded space" 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: John Christie (Dalhousie university neuroscience faculty) joins the team and, with renewed 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 eighteen years including eight after retiring from studio 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 team's book
Researching the Teaching of Drawing is published.
2003: assisted by NSCAD faculty colleague Susan Wood and Ray Klein, we visit the Ethology lab of Dalhousie university's Dr. Simon Gabdbois, animal behaviour psychologist. Dr. Gadbois loans us the space and equipment for a short experiment.
2004: Based upon the initial experiment and following detailed discussion of how to proceed, Ray and I submit an application to SSHRC - Canada's Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council - to equip and sustain a laboratory at NSCAD where teaching observational drawing can be studied by artists, educators and scientists. One year later and with the help of SSHRC funding the first experimental study is mounted.
2013-14: for eighteen months, NSCAD Lab equipment is mothballed due to the university administration's decision that a "lack of funded space" 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: John Christie (Dalhousie university neuroscience faculty) joins the team and, with renewed 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 eighteen years including eight after retiring from studio 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 team's book
Researching the Teaching of Drawing is published.
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