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About the Artist
Sally Armstrong Gradle is an
art educator, researcher, and artist. She is the Art Education
Program Coordinator in the School of Art and Design at
Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Gradle teaches
art education courses within a program emphasis that examines
and extends the context of art-making into community settings.
She graduated from the University of Illinois (UIUC) in
2004 with a focus on spiritual practices in art-making. She
completed her MA at the University of New Mexico (UNM)
in 1979 and has been a classroom teacher or an art teacher
in the schools in the decades between her degrees. Gradle’s
area of research includes place-based, sustainable art
education and the integration of contemplative practices
in teaching, learning, and research. Her articles, and
particularly her chapter in the International Handbook
of the Arts in Education on ‘Spiritual Ecology’ (2007),
offer a look at the expansion of art education into stronger
ecological, contemplative and visionary practices.
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