Beatriz Acevedo

Anglia Ruskin University, Lord Ashcroft Building, East Road, Cambridge, Bedfordshire, CB1 8PT, United Kingdom

Keywords art, aesthetics, organizational studies

Beatriz Acevedo is a lecturer in sustainable management at Lord Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Her research interests concern the intersection between art, aesthetics and organizational studies. She also utilizes 'art' as a way of understanding complex social issues, such as the case of violence, discrimination, leadership, sustainability and conflict.

Memories of Violencia in the work of the Colombian artist Doris Salcedo: A subjective view, Journal of Arts & Communities, 2.2, 153–170.

Sophia Krzys Acord

University of Florida, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, 200 Walker Hall, PO Box 118030, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, United States of America

Keywords embodied cognition, habitus, music, social interaction, tacit knowledge, humanities, knowledge production, arts, interdisciplinarity

Sophia Krzys Acord has arrived at sociology from a background in theatrical design, musical performance and arts education. Her past research includes an ethnography of Parisian artist-squats and the study of artistic censorship in the United States and the United Kingdom. She received a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Exeter, where her dissertation on exhibition-making practices among curators of contemporary art was awarded an 'Honorable Mention' by the American Sociological Association's annual dissertation prize committee in 2010. Her current work interrogates knowledge production, interdisciplinary collaboration and the impact of digital technologies in the humanities disciplines.

Thinking with art: from situated knowledge to experiential knowing, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 6.2, 125–140.

Clive Adams

Keywords curating, nature

Clive Adams is Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World. He is a curator with a particular interest in the work of artists which engages with nature. He started his career at the Arnolfini, Bristol in the 1970s, and his exhibitions have covered a period from the eighteenth century to the present day. The most recent are 'The Impossible View?' at The Lowry (winner of the Museums and Heritage Award for the best UK temporary exhibition of 2003) and 'The Art of White' at the Lowry until 17 April 2006.

'Nature and I are Two', Journal of Visual Art Practice, 1.1, 56–.

Julieta Aguilera

University of Plymouth and Adler Planetarium, Planetary Collegium, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, UK. Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL, 60130 USA

Keywords embodiment,enaction, synthetic experience, virtual reality, augmented reality

Julieta Aguilera is a researcher in interactive and immersive visualization in the Adler's Space Visualization Laboratory. An MFA graduate in Graphic Design and Electronic Visualization from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Illinois at Chicago, respectively, she has taught visual design and immersive environments, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Interactive Arts at the Planetary Collegium Program based in Plymouth, UK. Over the past fifteen years, she has exhibited CAVE-based Virtual Reality artworks and presented papers at both international conferences and art galleries. She collaborates with astronomers, historians and educators in the design and production of immersive interactive pieces for shows and research-oriented exhibitions.

The synthetic experience as an exoskeleton of the mind, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 9.2–3, 271–276.

Joe Adu-Agyem

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Department of General Art Studies (Art Education), Faculty of Fine Art, College of Art and Social Sciences, University Post Office Box 50, Kumasi, KNUST, Ghana

Keywords child art, Ghana, creativity, aesthetics, education

Joe Adu-Agyem is Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in the Department of General Art Studies (Art Education), the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He holds a Ph.D (Documentation), a Masters degree and a postgraduate diploma in Art Education as well as a BA (Art) degree in Sculpture, all from KNUST. He also has a three-year diploma in Art Education (Cape Coast University) and a four-year teachers' certificate A (Kumasi). His research interests include documentation, aesthetics and criticism, research methodology, educational administration/psychology, sculpture, secondary education and fashion design.

Enhancing children's learning: the art perspective, International Journal of Education through Art, 5.2&3, 143–155.

Sean Aita

Keywords theatre, acting, performance

Sean Aita is a community theatre practitioner and academic. He is currently a senior lecturer in acting at the Arts University College at Bournemouth. He is the former head of education and community at the Royal Theatre in Northampton and the artistic director of Forest Forge Theatre Company, developing performance and participatory projects for and with rural communities. As director of Forest Forge, Sean's work was shortlisted for the Stage Awards for Achievement in Regional Theatre in 2008.

An unobscured glow: Towards a definition of Rural Theatre, Journal of Arts & Communities, 2.1, 55–63.

Esra Akcan

University of Illinois, Chicago

Keywords architecture

Esra Akcan is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her architecture degree from Middle East Technical University and her Ph.D. and postdoctoral degrees from Columbia University in New York. She has taught at Columbia University, Humboldt University, the New School, Pratt Institute and METU. Akcan has received awards and fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin, the Clark Institute, the Graham Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Mellon Foundation, DAAD, Kinne, and KRESS/ARIT. She is the author of (Land)Fill Istanbul, Çeviride Modern Olan, Architecture in Translation (forthcoming) and Turkey: Modern Architectures in History (with Sibel Bozdogan, forthcoming).

Book Reviews, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 1.1, 151–168.

Mohammed Al-amri

Sultan Qaboos University, College of Education, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, P.O. Box 32, Code 123

Keywords art studio, art lecturer, art education, higher education, SQU

Mohammed Al-Amri is an assistant professor of Art Education at Sultan Qaboos University. He is a member of the International Advisory Committee for Arts Education, as well as a working group member of the Road Map for Arts Education, UNESCO. He has an MA in Art and Design Education from the University of Warwick and a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, UK. His research interests are in the art curriculum, programme evaluation, art criticism and creative thinking. He has published articles in both Arabic and English.

Assessment techniques racticed in teaching art at Sultan Qaboos University...