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

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  “UCF professor Kristin Congdon on folk art”, UCF Profiles, University of Central Florida

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

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Editors". Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  2. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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.