User:Brianh

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I have an Ed.D. in Art and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. I went to graduate school to take a closer look at how educational practices shape art practices (or, if you like, how educational institutions interact with the artworld). Before that, I was working in film production in Hollywood (only for a year - it turns out filmmaking is really boring most of the time). I worked on a couple films as a second assistant director, but my bread and butter was really bad tv. I wrangled weapons in public parks and brought the crew coffees. I was highly competent at this as I was a freshly minted BA in Studio Art from Dartmouth College. I am a practicing studio artist.

My main research interest is a particular kind of moral philosophy - virtue ethics - as a description of behavior in educational contexts. I am also, therefore, in perhaps not an unrelated way, interested in art (the arts, art making, art practices, and even the artworld) from an educational perspective. My dissertation is about the consequences of a hermeneutic conception of artistic genius as one form of social influence in art practices.