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Nancy Walkup
Art Educator/Author/Editor
Nancy Walkup is the editor of SchoolArts, a magazine for art educators published since 1901, a contributing author, along with Marilyn Stewart, Eldon Katter, and Laura Chapman, for Explorations in Art, Davis Publications’ elementary textbook series, and a fulltime art educator at W.S. Ryan Elementary in Denton, Texas. |
Nancy’s teaching experience covers all grade levels from kindergarten through graduate school. A highlight of her career includes serving as project coordinator for ten years for the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, a national art education initiative funded in part by the Getty Institute and the Annenberg Foundation. Nancy was also the conference chair for the 2001 National Art Education Association conference held in New York City, one of the best–attended NAEA conferences to date.
Nancy’s recent honors include serving as an invited teacher at an elementary school in Beijing, China; selection for the Japanese Fulbright Memorial Teacher program in 2008; and being named 2007 Teacher of the Year for her campus. She has won numerous awards from the art education associations of Louisiana and Texas as well as the National Art Education Association.
Besides serving as SchoolArts’ editor, and teaching fulltime, Nancy recently published, with Pam Stephens, the second edition of Bridging The Curriculum Through Art: Interdisciplinary Connections, a book for art teachers and pre–service students. She has co–authored Take 5 art print sets published by Crystal Productions, instructional units for CRIZMAC Art and Cultural Materials, and various other curriculum projects. Nancy also presents regularly at NAEA, TAEA, other state conferences, and similar venues and has served as an art education consultant for school districts and publishers. In addition, Nancy leads two annual summer seminars in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Folk Art Traditions and Beyond and Pueblo Art and Culture.
Nancy’s websites may be found at www.schoolartsonline.com and www.dentonisd.org/nwalkup. |
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