Jeanne Petsch

Education

• Ph.D. (1998), Florida State University
• M.A.T. (1993), University of South Carolina
• M.A. (1987), University of Northern Iowa
• B.A. (1985), Iowa State University

Biography

Jeanne Petsch received a B.A. from Iowa State University (1985), M.A. from the University of Northern Iowa (1987), M.A.T. from the University of South Carolina (1993) and Ph.D. from Florida State University (1998). She works primarily with pre-service art teachers, and her approach to teaching is humanistic and experiential. Her ethnographic research explores the creative experiences of artists and students in P-12 and post secondary settings and how we discover meaning through creative activity and our encounters in the world. She conducts research as a participant-observer, working on-site in a variety of unique settings including alternative schools, rural schools and urban schools. She has also done extensive work in schools in Saint Petersburg, Russia and the surrounding region. Her research has been presented at conferences and at colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad and has been published in a variety books, scholarly journals and catalogs. Jeanne is also a practicing artist who has exhibited her work in regional, national and international venues. Her current creative work is an exploration of found objects and collage, and how these objects and materials become meaningful through our experiences with them. She explores the object's place and purpose in past and present time, how its meaning changes through re-contextualization, and her own continually changing realization of the object and its meaning. 

Exhibitions of Creative Work

• Group Competitive Exhibition, "Women's Caucus Juried Art Exhibition: Designed: Object, Subject, Environment." National Art Education Annual Conference and online exhibition, New Orleans, 2015. 
• Group Competitive Exhibition, "Women's Caucus Juried Art Exhibition: Fusions across art, teaching, learning, and research." National Art Education Annual Conference and online exhibition, San Diego, 2014.
• Group Invitational Exhibition, "2014 NAEA Spark Gallery Exhibition," National Art Education Annual Conference, San Diego, 2014. 
• Group Invitational Exhibition, "Annual MSU Art and Design Faculty Exhibition," MSU Department of Art and Design, Morehead, Kentucky, annually.
• Group Invitational Exhibition, "Kentucky Art Education Association Exhibition," KyAEA Annual Conference at Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky, 2012.
• Group Competitive Exhibition, "United States Society for Education Through Arts Exhibition," exhibited on-line during National Art Education Association Annual Conference, New York, 2012. 
• Group Competitive Exhibition, "Fem In Us," Motherlode Group, Artlink Gallery, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2011.
• Group Invitational Exhibition, "Indiana Art Educator's Showcase," Langhinrichs Gallery, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2010.
• Group Invitational Exhibition, "Bust a Move," Auction and Fundraiser. Free Mason's Hall Ballroom, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2010.
• Group Invitational Exhibition, "Regional University Exhibition," Artlink Gallery, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2010.
• Group Competitive Exhibition, "Lots of Little Art," Artlink Gallery, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2009.
• Group Competitive Exhibition, "Big Ideas in Small Packages," Motherlode Group, Jeffrey Krull Gallery, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2009.
• Group Invitational Exhibition, "USF Faculty Invitational," Arena Theatre, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2009.
• Two-artist Exhibition, "Little Dreams," Charles City Art Center, Charles City, Iowa, 2008.       
• Group Invitational Exhibition, "UNI Faculty Show," Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 2005.
• Group Invitational Exhibition, "Views and Visions," Graduate College, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 2005.
• Solo Exhibition, "Selected Works," Center for Faith and Life, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, 2003.
• Group Invitational Exhibition, "Exchange Exhibition," Herzen State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2003.
• Solo Exhibition, "Selected Works," Gallery 206, Missouri Western State College, Saint Joseph, Missouri, 2003.
• Two-artist Exhibition, "Selected Works," Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Mount Vernon, Ohio, 2002.
• Group Competitive Exhibition, "Teacher as Artist," Art and Design Gallery, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, 2002.
• Solo Exhibition, "Dreams and Landscapes," Witter Gallery, Storm Lake, Iowa, 2002.
• Group Competitive Exhibition, "57^th Juried Exhibition," Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa, 2001. 
• Group Competitive Exhibition, "Artists of Iowa," Hearst Center for the Arts, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 2000.

Publications

• Petsch, J. (2014). Creating Our World: An Art Program for Alternative School Students . Book chapter in L. Lennex & K. Nettleton (Eds.), "Cases on Instructional Technology in Gifted and Talented Education." IGI Global. 
• Petsch, J. (2008). frje's teaching. In "frje Echeverria: Four Decades of Working beside Students" (pp. 27-33) . Exhibition catalogue. University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art.
• Petsch, J. (2007). Creating the Russian and American Children's Art Exhibition. Proceedings from: "The Tenth Annual Conference on Higher Education" (pp. 556-58), Herzen State University Publishing House, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• Petsch, J. (2006). "Creating Our World: Russian and American Children's Art Exhibition." Exhibition catalogue. Introduction, photography and editing. 281 pp., full-color, English and Cyrillic. Beresta Press, Herzen State University Publishing House, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• Petsch, J. (2006). Art Programs in Iowa Schools . Proceedings from: "The Ninth Annual Conference on Higher Education" (p. 473), Herzen State University Publishing House, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• Petsch, J. (2006). Storm Lake: Presence and Memory . Proceedings from: "The Ninth Annual Conference on Higher Education" (pp. 474-82), Herzen State University Publishing House, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• Petsch, J. (2005). Experiences and Impressions:  First Summer Institute for Humanities and Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg, Russia . In M. Basom & S. Goncharov (Eds.), "The Cosmos of Russian Life: An Introduction to Russian Culture" (pp. 106-9 and 177), Maria Basom and Sergey Goncharov, Herzen State University Publishing House, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• Petsch, J. (2003). Remembered and Imagined Worlds: "The Life and Work of Hans Otto Petsch. Visual Arts Research, 28" (1), 90-108.
• Petsch, J. (2000). Creative Encounters at the Interaction Factory. "Visual Arts Research, 26" (1), 85-93.

Refereed Presentations

• Artist Presentation. Women's Caucus Juried Art Exhibition: Designed: Object, Subject, Environment. National Art Education Annual Conference, New Orleans, 2015.
• School-based Art Teacher Preparation with "At-Risk" Students. National Art Education Association Annual Conference, San Diego, 2014.
• Artist Presentation. Women's Caucus Juried Art Exhibition: Fusions Across Art, Teaching, Learning, and Research. National Art Education Annual Conference, San Diego, 2014.
• School-based Art Teacher Preparation with "At-Risk" Students. Kentucky Art Education Association Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, 2013 
• Creating Our World: An Art Enrichment Program for Alternative School Students. Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities 19 ^th Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, 2013.
• School-based Art Teacher Preparation with "At-Risk" Students. Kentucky Engagement Conference, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky, 2013.
• Pre-Service Art Teachers in an Alternative School Setting. Tennessee Alternative Education Summer Institute, Jackson, Tennessee, 2013.
• Pre-Service Art Teachers in an Alternative School Setting. (poster session) Kentucky Engagement Conference, A New Era of Engagement, WKU-Bowling Green, Kentucky, 2012.
• Pre-Service Art Teachers in an Alternative School Setting. Kentucky Art Education Association Annual Conference, EKU-Richmond, Kentucky, 2012.
• Artistic Praxis as Professional Development for Art Teachers. National Art Education Association Annual Conference, New York, 2012. 
• The Creative Lives of Art Teachers. National Art Education Association Annual Conference, Seattle, 2011.
• The Creative Lives of Art Teachers. Art Education Association of Indiana Annual Conference, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2010.
• Creating the Russian and American Children's Art Exhibition. Tenth Annual Conference on Higher Education, Herzen State Pedagogical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2007.
• Russian and American Children's Art Exhibition. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Visual Communication Conference, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 2007.        
• Art Programs in Iowa Schools. Ninth Annual Conference on Higher Education, Herzen State Pedagogical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2006. 
• Children's Artwork at Two Russian Schools. National Art Education Association Annual Conference, Chicago, 2006.      
• A Field Experience in Storm Lake. Art Educators of Iowa Annual Conference, Okoboji, Iowa, 2005.
• Storm Lake: Presence and Memory. Eighth Annual Conference on Higher Education, Herzen State Pedagogical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2005.
• Artwork by Children in Saint Petersburg, Russia. National Art Education Association Annual Conference, Denver, 2004.
• A Pilot Field Experience Integrating Art into the K-12 Curriculum. National Art Education Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis, 2003.             
• Cultural Encounters through Art. National Art Education Association Annual Conference, Miami, 2002.              
• Cultural Encounters through Art. Art Educators of Iowa Annual Conference, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 2001.               
• Mural Exchange Project: Phase I. Fourth Annual Conference on Higher Education, Herzen State Pedagogical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2001.            
• Remembered and Imagined Worlds: Case Study of an Artist. International Visual Literacy Association, Ames, Iowa, 2000.        
• Remembered and Imagined Worlds: Case Study of an Artist. National Art Education Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, 2000.                 
• Creative Encounters at the Interaction Factory. National Art Education Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, 2000.

Invited Presentations

• Opening Presentation for Creating Our World: Russian and American Children's Art Exhibition. Union of Russian Artists Exhibition Hall, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2007.               
• Opening Presentation for Creating Our World: Russian and American Children's Art Exhibition. Art Auditorium, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 2006.
• Russian and American Children's Art Exhibition. KUNI Radio interview, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 2006.  
• Objects as Sources of Meaning. Department of Fine Art, Herzen State Pedagogical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2005.          
• Art Education in the United States. Department of Fine Art, Herzen State Pedagogical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2005.    
• Exhibition Critique. Iowa Artists Region 3 Art Show. Centennial Union, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, 2005.               
• Artist Presentation. Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, 2003.         
• Artist Presentation. Missouri Western State College, Saint Joseph, Missouri, 2003.           
• Mural Exchange Project: Phase II. Department of Fine Art, Herzen State Pedagogical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2002.       
• Remembered and Imagined Worlds: Case Study of an Artist. Department of Fine Art, Herzen State Pedagogical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2000.
•  The Artist as Teacher. Department of Fine Art, Herzen State Pedagogical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2000. 
• Creative Encounters at the Interaction Factory . Department of Fine Art, Herzen State Pedagogical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2000.           
• Art Making for Creativity and Expression. Department of Fine Art, Herzen State Pedagogical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2000.
• An Alternative Art Program in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. School of the Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2000.