Release Date: October 3, 2008
Kennesaw State professor receives educator of the year award
Contact: Cheryl Anderson Brown, Assistant Director of Public Relations, 770-499-3417 or cbrown@kennesaw.edu
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Diana Gregory |
KENNESAW, Ga.—Diana Gregory, an assistant professor of art education at Kennesaw State University, recently was selected to receive the Higher Education Art Educator of the Year award from the Georgia Art Education Association. The award will be presented at GAEA’s Fall Professional Learning Conference on Nov. 7 in Athens. Gregory lives in Ball Ground.
This is the second year in a row that this award has been presented to a KSU professor; last year, it went to Associate Professor of Art Sandra Bird.
“The fact that KSU have received this award two years in a row demonstrates the excellent reputation the art education program here has across the state,” said Joe Thomas, chair of the KSU Department of Visual Arts. “Diana Gregory has further expanded that reputation through her extensive work in state and national arts organizations as well as the important role she plays within the department as the coordinator for the art education program.”
Gregory has been a KSU member since 2000. She received a doctorate from Florida State University and has additional degrees from North Georgia College & State University and the San Francisco Art Institute. At KSU, she is the coordinator of art education and has been instrumental in the creation of the university’s Master of Arts in Teaching Art, which will be launched in Summer 2009. Her professional training in art therapy has guided her work with children with exceptionalities and adults and children with traumatic brain injury. She has taught in a variety of settings including art galleries, school systems, rehabilitation centers and nursing homes. Her interests include creativity in a postmodern context and across the life span. Last year, she helped coordinate the university’s participation in the federal government’s Weed and Seed program which provided life skills training for children in underserved communities. As part of that project, Gregory developed an after-school art program for children in Las Colinas apartment complex in Marietta.
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Kennesaw State University is the third−largest university in Georgia‚ offering more than 65 graduate and undergraduate degrees‚ including new doctorates in education and business. A member of the 35−unit University System of Georgia‚ Kennesaw State is a comprehensive‚ residential institution with a growing student population of more than 21‚000 from 142 countries.
The KSU College of the Arts is one of only four Georgia institutions to have achieved full national accreditation for all of its arts programs.
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A member of the 35-unit University System of Georgia, Kennesaw State University is a comprehensive, residential institution with a growing student population of more than 21,000 from 142 countries. The third-largest university in Georgia, Kennesaw State offers more than 65 graduate and undergraduate degrees, including new doctorates in education and business.
The KSU College of the Arts is one of only four Georgia institutions to have achieved full national accreditation for all of its arts programs.