Ann Lovett was born in 1953 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. She received a B.S. in Studio Art from Skidmore College and an M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art of Temple University. She has exhibited widely, with solo shows at the Dorsky Gallery in New York and elsewhere, and many national and international exhibitions. Notable examples include the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach, Germany; Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; and many others. Her work is represented in national and international collections, and has been recognized by a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography, a New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Grant and the New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artists Program.

She has been an artist in residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland and The Visiting Artist’s and Scholar’s Program at the American Academy in Rome. She received the William Randolph Hearst Foundation Visiting Fellowship for Historical Research by Creative and Performing Artists and Writers from the American Antiquarian Society, and was awarded the Cox Family Fellowship at the Center for Humanities and the Arts at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She lives in New York State’s Hudson Valley, where she is a Professor of Art at the State University of New York, New Paltz.

 

Mary Hafeli was born in 1960 in Detroit, Michigan. She received a B.F.A. from the University of Michigan School of Art and Ed.M. and Ed.D. in art and art education from Columbia University Teachers College. Her studio work has been shown in galleries and museums in New York, Michigan, Maryland, Iowa, and Illinois, including The Art Institute of Chicago. She is a frequent presenter at national and international art education conferences and her widely published research on the studio practices of young people has been recognized with numerous national awards.

She received the Mary Rouse Award given to early career scholars of promise by the National Art Education Association Women’s Caucus, the Manual Barkan Memorial Award, and the Seminar for Research in Art Education’s Marilyn Zurmuehlen Award, both from the NAEA for outstanding scholarly contributions to the field. Currently serving on the editorial board of the journal Studies in Art Education, past appointments include service on the editorial board of the journal Art Education and leadership of the National Art Education Association’s Research Task Force on Student Learning. Living and working in New York’s Hudson Valley, she is currently Dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts at the State University of New York, New Paltz.