Kristin Congdon

Kristin G. Congdon is an American artist, writer and a Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Central Florida.[1][2] In her work she focuses on folk art, art education, art history, and feminism.[3][4][5] She is the founding director of the Cultural Heritage Alliance at the University of Central Florida (UCF), which supports research into folk arts and folk arts education.[2][6][7] She has written or contributed to over a dozen books on folk arts and is on the Editorial Board of the journal Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal.[1] She has toured with her art in Florida.

Career
External video
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Congdon received her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in Art Education.[8] She has contributed to several books and publications. She contributed several essays about Día de los Muertos to the book Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture by Peter Narvaez.[9] Congdon co-wrote the book Happy Clouds, Happy Trees about Bob Ross, which was reviewed favorably by the Washington Post.[10] Congdon contributed to the book Cassadaga: The South's Oldest Spiritualist Community.[11] She has spoken and written about feminism in art education and other topics related to women in art.[12][13]

Congdon and Tina Bucuvalas spent five years creating a traveling exhibition which is based on the book Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art and toured with it in museums all over Florida, including at the St. Petersburg Museum of History.[14]

Congdon is a Professor Emerita at the University of Central Florida.[11]

Published works
  • Art in a Democracy (1987, Teachers College Press, co-editor and contributor)[15][16][17]
  • Pluralistic Approaches to Art Criticism (1992, Bowling Green University, co-editor and contributor)[18]
  • Women Art Educators III (1993, co-editor)
  • Evaluating Art Education Programs in Community Centers (1998, co-editor)
  • Remembering Others: Making Invisible Histories of Art Education Visible (2000, co-editor)[19]
  • Histories of Community-based Art Education (2001, co-editor)
  • Uncle Monday and Other Florida Tales (2001, University Press of Mississippi)
  • Artist from Latin American Cultures: A Biographical Dictionary (2002, Greenwood Press, with Kara Kelley Hallmark)
  • Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture (2003, contributor)[20]
  • Community Art in Action (2004, Davis Publications)
  • Just above the Water: Florida Folk Art (2006, University Press of Mississippi, with Tina Bucuvalas)[21][22]
  • American Folk Art: A Regional Reference (2012, ABC-CLIO, with Kara Kelley Hallmark, 2 volumes)[23]
  • Happy Clouds, Happy Trees (2016, with Doug Blandy and Danny Coeyman)[24]

Awards and honors

References
  1. "Editors". Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  2. Delacruz, Elizabeth Manley (2009). Globalization, art, & education. Reston, VA: National Art Education Association. p. 326. ISBN 9781890160432.
  3. Folk art and art worlds. Vlach, John Michael, 1948-, Bronner, Simon J., American Folklife Center., Washington Meeting on Folk Art (1983). Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press. 1992. ISBN 0874211573. OCLC 25552363.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. "Kristin Congdon". UCF News - University of Central Florida Articles - Orlando, FL News. Archived from the original on March 26, 2018. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
  5. "Oh, Those Fascinating Fish". Sandusky Sunday Register Newspaper Archives, Feb 22, 1987. February 22, 1987. p. 3. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  6. Wilson, Charles Reagan (2006). The new encyclopedia of Southern culture (Rev. ed.). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. p. 401. ISBN 978-0807856819. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  7. Bucuvalas, Tina (2012). The Florida folklife reader. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi. p. 289. ISBN 978-1617031427. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  8. Blandy, Douglas Emerson; Congdon, Kristin G. (1991). Pluralistic Approaches to Art Criticism. Popular Press. ISBN 9780879725433.
  9. "No, Día de los Muertos isn't 'Mexican Halloween'". KARE. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  10. Donoghue, Steve (July 22, 2014). "Book review: 'Happy Clouds, Happy Trees'". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  11. McCrum, Kirstie (October 21, 2015). "In this town, every day is Halloween". mirror. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  12. G., Congdon, Kristin; Doug, Blandy (1990). "Introduction(s) to Men in Feminism". Journal of Social Theory in Art Education. 10 (1). ISSN 1057-0292.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. Blandy, Douglas Emerson; Congdon, Kristin G. (1991). Pluralistic Approaches to Art Criticism. Popular Press. ISBN 9780879725433.
  14. "Barely above water: Florida Folk Art at the St. Pete Museum of History". Creative Loafing: Tampa Bay. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  15. Dewhurst, C. Kurt (1989). "Review of Art in a Democracy". The Journal of American Folklore. 102 (405): 368–369. doi:10.2307/540668. JSTOR 540668.
  16. Holt, David K. (1991). "Review of Art in a Democracy". Studies in Art Education. 32 (2): 117–119. doi:10.2307/1320283. JSTOR 1320283.
  17. Richmond, Stuart (1989). "Review of Art in a democracy". The Journal of Educational Thought. 23 (3): 219–221. JSTOR 23768773.
  18. Friend, Miles Edward (1994). "Review of Pluralistic Approaches to Art Criticism, , ; Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary". Journal of Aesthetic Education. 28 (4): 102–104. doi:10.2307/3333369. JSTOR 3333369.
  19. Irwin, Rita L. (2004). "Review of Remembering Others: Making Invisible Histories of Art Education Visible". Studies in Art Education. 45 (2): 170–173. doi:10.1080/00393541.2004.11651764. JSTOR 1321099. S2CID 218769258.
  20. Gabe, Mcguire (2004). "Review of 'Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture' (Narvaez)". Folklore Forum. ISSN 0015-5926.
  21. Rosenberg, Jan (2008). "Review of Just above the Water: Florida Folk Art". Western Folklore. 67 (2/3): 296–298. JSTOR 25474925.
  22. Hansen, Gregory (2011). "Review of Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art". The Journal of American Folklore. 124 (494): 331–333. doi:10.5406/jamerfolk.124.494.0331. JSTOR 10.5406/jamerfolk.124.494.0331.
  23. Congdon, Kristin G.; Hallmark, Kara Kelley (2012). American Folk Art: A Regional Reference. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780313349362. OCLC 721891434.
  24. Rathje, Lisa (2016). "Review of Happy Clouds, Happy Trees: The Bob Ross Phenomenon, Kristin G. Congdon, Doug Blandy, and Danny Coeyman". The Journal of American Folklore. 129 (512): 228–229. doi:10.5406/jamerfolk.129.512.0228. JSTOR 10.5406/jamerfolk.129.512.0228.
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