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Dr Lisa Donovan of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts presents The Teacher as Curator: Creating change through arts integration, assessment, and the development of rural networks.

In this webinar, drawing on her publications on arts integration, assessment, and rural research, Lisa will discuss how arts integration can catalyse regional change.

Lisa has published widely on arts integration and rural arts education. This includes her work as co-editor/co-author of a five-book series on arts integration published by Shell Education, and her co-authored book Teacher as Curator, which explores the power of assessment and documentation in arts-integrated work. Her rural research: Leveraging Change: Increasing Access to Arts Education in Rural Areas was featured by the National Endowment for the Arts, and she has spearheaded several projects that foreground the use of the arts as a strategy for regional change.

Lisa is a professor in the Fine and Performing Arts Department at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Previously she served as Director of the Creative Arts in Learning Division at Lesley University. Lisa has worked with Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Berkshire Opera Company, Barrington Stage Company, Boston University's Theater, Visual Arts and Tanglewood Institutes, and University of Massachusetts' Department of Theater. She also served as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Alliance for Arts Education.