{{Short description|Australian artist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Use Australian English|date=December 2012}} {{Infobox artist | name = Graeme Sullivan | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | known_for = | training = Ohio State University | movement = | notable_works = | patrons = | awards = {{awd|Manual Barkan Memorial Award|1990}}{{awd|Lowenfeld Award|2007}} | elected = | website = [http://www.streetworksart.com/ www.StreetWorksArt.com] }}
'''Graeme Sullivan''' is an Australian artist, author, art theorist, and educator. He has contributed work to numerous exhibitions and events and is known for his international "Streetworks" project that plants public art in unusual urban locales.<ref name="pennstate">{{cite news |url=http://www.artsandarchitecture.psu.edu/news/2010/apr/20_sullivan_sovadirector.html |title=Renowned Art Educator Graeme Sullivan Appointed Director of Penn State School of Visual Arts |last=Marynak |first=Flora |date=12 April 2010 |publisher=Penn State College of Arts and Architecture |accessdate=2010-12-13 |archive-date=29 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829215523/http://artsandarchitecture.psu.edu/news/2010/apr/20_sullivan_sovadirector.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He authored the books ''Art Practice as Research''<ref name="sagepubtwo">{{cite news |url=http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book233902?contribId=530049& |title=Art Practice as Research, 2nd Edition |year=2010 |publisher=SAGE Books |accessdate=2010-12-13}}</ref> (2005-2010 2nd Ed) and ''Seeing Australia: Views of Artists and Artwriters''<ref name="amazonaussie">{{cite news |title=Seeing Australia: Views of artists and artwriters |isbn=0958798427 |last1=Sullivan |first1=Graeme |year=1994 }}</ref> (1994). He has served as Senior Editor, ''Studies in Art Education'' 2001-2003; Editor of ''Australian Art Education'' 1988-1991; Chair, National Art Education Association (NAEA) Research Commission, 2012-2014; elected Distinguished Fellow, NAEA, 2020. Sullivan has taught art at the University of New South Wales's College of Fine Arts,<ref name="SAGE">{{cite news |url=http://www.sagepub.com/authorDetails.nav?contribId=530049 |title=Graeme Sullivan |year=2010 |publisher=Sage |accessdate=2010-12-13}}</ref> and the Teacher's College at Columbia University.<ref name="moravian">{{cite news |url=http://www.moravian.edu/default.aspx?pageid=3473 |title=Lecture to feature Columbia University Art Educator Graeme Sullivan |date=5 November 2009 |publisher=Moravian College |accessdate=2010-12-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610160534/http://www.moravian.edu/default.aspx?pageid=3473 |archivedate=10 June 2010 }}</ref> He served as Director of the School of Visual Arts at Pennsylvania State University, 2010-2018.<ref name="tc">{{cite news |url=http://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/index.htm?facid=gs354 |title=Faculty Profile: Sullivan |publisher=Teachers College, Columbia University |accessdate=2010-12-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617113344/http://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/index.htm?facid=gs354 |archivedate=17 June 2011 }}</ref>
==Education== Sullivan attended Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio<ref name="SAGE"/> where he earned his Master of Arts<ref name="pennstate"/> in 1982 and later graduated with a PhD in art education<ref name="tc"/> in 1984.<ref name="beta">{{cite news |title=Graeme Sullivan Collection |url=http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/browse/3704 |accessdate=2010-12-13 |publisher=Pocket Knowledge}}</ref> Sullivan's scholarly interests include visualization in the art process, studio-based<ref name="rhizome">{{cite news |url=http://rhizome.org/profile.php?1058715 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415170025/http://rhizome.org/profile.php?1058715 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-04-15 |title=Graeme Sullivan Biography |publisher=Rhizome at the New Museum |accessdate=2010-12-13 }}</ref> research methods and theory for different art disciplines and interdisciplinary settings.<ref name="tc"/>
==Artistic career== ;''Streetworks'' (1995–present) In the early 1990s Sullivan began creating "Streetworks", unique conceptual art pieces built from materials he picked up from gutters and sidewalks. Under the guise of semi-anonymity,<ref name="moravian"/> he constructs pieces and sometimes exhibits them before installing the artworks in specific sites such as subway stations, abandoned buildings, parks, bridges, and other urban locations and leaves them there.<ref name="pennstate"/> Sullivan's Streetworks first appeared in Sydney.<ref name="pennstate" /><ref name="rhizome" /><ref name="tcrecord">{{cite journal |last=Sullivan |first=Graeme |year=2010 |title=The Culture of Community and a Failure of Creativity |url=http://www.tcrecord.org/AuthorDisplay.asp?aid=21493 |journal=Teachers College Record |accessdate=2010-12-13}}</ref> in 1999, followed by Boston (1992), Tokyo (2001), New York City (2002), Bahamas,<ref name="moravian" /> (2002), Brooklyn (2006, 2014), Venice (2003, 2007, 2019), Beijing (2005).
;Exhibitions Throughout his career Sullivan's art has been featured in numerous shows and exhibitions. In March 2010 Sullivan contributed art pieces to the international traveling exhibit ''Global Perspectives: Works on Paper''. In New York City it displayed in the Broadway Gallery, and also featured such artists as May Stevens.<ref name="GALLERYNYC">{{cite news |url=http://www.broadwaygallerynyc.com/index.php?s=matthew+lauretti&searchbutton=Go! |title=Global Perspectives: Works on Paper |last=Lauretti |first=Matthew |date=March 2010 |publisher=Broadway Gallery NYC |accessdate=2010-12-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718074611/http://www.broadwaygallerynyc.com/index.php?s=matthew+lauretti&searchbutton=Go%21 |archivedate=18 July 2011 }}</ref> In April 2010 he participated in the exhibition ''Art is Me, Art is You'' at the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles. The show included a public art walk performance where the artists symbolically 'wore' their artwork.<ref name="pennstate"/>
==Teaching career==
===University of New South Wales (1988-1998) === In 1988, Sullivan joined the faculty at the University of New South Wales in Kensington, Australia, where he remained for over ten years.<ref name="pennstate"/> He served as a senior lecturer in art education in their College of Fine Arts.<ref name="SAGE"/>
;''Critical Influence'' CD (1998) In 1998, Sullivan produced a CD-ROM entitled ''Critical Influence: A Visual Arts Research Project'', which documented two contemporary artists preparing for an exhibition, and explored the influences and contexts between their separate art practices.<ref name="SAGE"/> Made while at the University of New South Wales, it was intended to accompany an exhibition called ''Critical Influence'' at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery in February and March 1998.<ref name="tc"/>
===Columbia University (1999-2009)=== In January 1999, Sullivan departed from the University of New South Wales<ref name="pennstate"/> to join the faculty in the Department of Arts and Humanities at Teachers College, Columbia University.<ref name="beta"/> He served as Chair of the Department of Arts & Humanities,<ref name="pennstate"/><ref name="stein">{{cite news |url=http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/conference/artseducation |title=Arts Education – to what end? Keynote Speaker: Graeme Sullivan |date=7–8 March 2008 |publisher=NYU Steinhardt |accessdate=2010-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120032736/http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/conference/artseducation |archive-date=20 November 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> as well as associate professor of art education.<ref name="beta"/><ref name="SAGE"/><ref name="moravian"/><ref name="tcrecord"/>
===Lecturing history === ;InSEA World Congress (2002) In 2002 Sullivan served on the Congress Executive Committee of InSEA's 31st World Congress in New York City.<ref name="tceduinsea">{{cite news |url = http://www.tc.edu/INSEA/contact.htm |title = Contact Information |year = 2002 |publisher = InSEA 31st World Congress |accessdate = 2010-12-13 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110727231124/http://www.tc.edu/INSEA/contact.htm |archive-date = 27 July 2011 |url-status = dead }}</ref>
On 4 November 2005, Sullivan presented "Research Acts in the Visual Arts" as part of the John M. Anderson Lecture Series at the Pennsylvania State University School of Visual Arts.<ref name="researcharts">{{cite news |url=https://www.sova.psu.edu/john_m_anderson_lecture_series_graeme_sullivan |title=John M Anderson Lecture Series: Graeme Sullivan |date=4 November 2005 |publisher=Penn State School of Visual Arts |accessdate=2010-12-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621150417/https://www.sova.psu.edu/john_m_anderson_lecture_series_graeme_sullivan |archivedate=21 June 2010 }}</ref> Three years later, on 7 and 8 March 2008, Sullivan served as a keynote speaker at NYU Steinhardt in Greenwich Village.<ref name="stein"/> On 2 February 2009, he was sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Research Group from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University to present the lecture "The Artist as Research Trickster".<ref name="highbeam">{{cite news |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1637566401.html |title=Graeme Sullivan to Speak on 'The Artist as Research Trickster', Feb. 19 |date=2 February 2009 |publisher=Syracuse University |accessdate=2010-12-13}}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> He presented "Art Practice as Research: New Roles for New Realities" at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on 11 November 2009. The lecture was part of the Rose and Rudy S. Ackerman Visual Arts Lecture Series.<ref name="moravian"/>
===Penn State University (2010-2018) === Effective 1 August 2010,<ref name="pennstate"/> Sullivan was appointed director of Pennsylvania State University's School of Visual Arts.<ref name="tcrecord"/><ref name="graemedirector">{{cite news |url=http://bulletins.psu.edu/bulletins/bluebook/college_campus_details.cfm?id=21 |title=Undergraduate Degree Programs: Art and Architecture |date=16 October 2010 |publisher=Penn State |accessdate=2010-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617003727/http://bulletins.psu.edu/bulletins/bluebook/college_campus_details.cfm?id=21 |archive-date=17 June 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is also a professor of art education at the college.<ref name="arteducation">{{cite news |url=http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/MasterinArtEducation_Faculty.shtml |title=Penn State – Online Master of Professional Studies in Art Education |publisher=Penn State |accessdate=2010-12-13}}</ref> He retired in 2018 and returned to live in Sydney, Australia.
==Writing/editing career== ;''Seeing Australia'' (1994) Sullivan is the author of ''Seeing Australia: Views of Artists and Artwriters'',<ref name="SAGE"/> a paperback book released on Piper Press in 1994.<ref name="pennstate"/><ref name="amazonaussie"/> It was also published as a poster book in 1994,<ref name="beta"/> and there was a second reprinting in 1996.<ref name="tc"/>
;''Art Practice as Research'' (2005, 2010) In 2005 Sullivan published the book ''Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts'',<ref name="beta"/> which described many of his artistic philosophies on education and research in detail.<ref name="arteducation"/> It was published by SAGE Publications on both paperback and hardback.<ref name="sagethree">{{cite news |url=http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book226654?contribId=530049& |title=Art Practice as Research |year=2005 |publisher=SAGE Books |accessdate=2010-12-13}}</ref> The book later underwent a major update and revision and a second edition was published early in 2010.<ref name="sagepubtwo"/><ref name="arteducation"/> His research partly investigates the thinking process, making processes, and practices used in visual arts.<ref name="pennstate"/> He presents the argument that the creative and cultural inquiry undertaken by artists is a form of research.<ref name="sagepubtwo"/>
;Articles Sullivan has written numerous articles focusing on visual research practices in art and education,<ref name="SAGE"/> published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and Asia.<ref name="rhizome"/> He has held editorial positions with both ''Studies in Art Education'' and ''Australian Art Education''.<ref name="pennstate"/><ref name="arteducation"/> He is also an editorial board member and consultant to the UK publication ''International Journal of Art & Design Education'',<ref name="pennstate"/> the ''International Journal of Education and the Arts'',<ref name="pennstate"/> and ''Studies in Material Thinking''.<ref name="arteducation"/> He has served as senior editor for ''Studies in Art Education'', the research journal of the NAEA.<ref name="beta"/><ref name="SAGE"/>
He has contributed numerous chapters to books and text books,<ref name="tc"/> as well as editorials to peer-reviewed journals such as ''Studies in Art Education'' and ''Australian Art Education''.<ref name="tc"/> He also contributed articles to ''Artlink'' in 1999 and ''Art in Education'' in 1988 and 1986.<ref name="tc"/>
In 2004 he was listed in ''Who's Who in America''.<ref name="SAGE"/>
== Memberships == *National Art Education Association (NAEA) *Australian Institute of Art Education (conferred life membership in 1997)<ref name="pennstate" />
==Awards== *''Manual Barkan Memorial Award'' 1990 – NAEA (for scholarly writing)<ref name="pennstate"/><ref name="beta"/><ref name="SAGE"/><ref name="stein"/><ref name="arteducation"/> *''Ken Marantz Distinguished Alumni Award'' 1999 – Ohio State University<ref name="beta"/> *''Lowenfeld Award'' 2007 (for significant contribution to the art education profession)<ref name="pennstate"/><ref name="stein"/><ref name="arteducation"/>
==Bibliography== ;Books *''Seeing Australia: Views of Artists and Artwriters'' (1994) ({{ISBN|0958798427}})<ref name="amazonaussie"/> *''Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts'' edition 1 (2005) ({{ISBN|9781412905367}})<ref name="sagethree"/> *''Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts'' edition 2 (2010) ({{ISBN|9781412974516}})<ref name="sagepubtwo"/>
;Authored Chapters *''Contemporary issues in art education for elementary educators'' (2002), (pp. 23–38) *''Handbook of research and policy in art education'' (2004), (pp. 795–814) *''Howard Gardner Under Fire: A Rebel Psychologist Faces His Critics'' (2006) (pp. 198–222) *''International Handbook of Research on Arts Education, Part 2'' (2007), (pp. 1181–1194) *''Art Education as Critical Cultural Inquiry'', (2007) (pp. 58–74) *''Being with A/r/tography'' (2007) (pp. 233–244) *''International Handbook of Research on Arts Education, Part 2,'' (2007) ''(pp. 1181-1194).'' *''Handbook of The Arts in Qualitative Research: Perspectives, Methodologies, Examples, and Issues'' (2008) (pp. 239 – 250)<ref name="tc" /> *''Making Space: The Purpose and Place of Practice-Led Research''. (2010). (pp.99-117). *''See it again, say it again: The artist as researcher'' (2011) (pp. 70 – 101). *''Art and Social Justice Education: Culture as Commons'', (2012) (pp. 145-149). *''The Heart of Art Education: Essays on Holistic Human Development and Integration,'' (2012) (pp.16-29). *''Teaching Emergent Research Methodologies in Art Education'' (2013)'', (''pp.-11-20)''.'' *''Teaching artistic research: Conversations across cultures'' (2020) (pp. 29-41).
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.streetworksart.com/ Streetworksart] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716154935/http://www.streetworksart.com/ |date=16 July 2011 }} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110707170355/http://artpracticeasresearch.com/ Art Practice as Research] online project *[https://woodmeetspaper.blogspot.com/ wood meets paper blog]
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