Enid Zimmerman

Enid Zimmerman is Professor Emerita of Art Education and currently coordinates the High Ability Program at Indiana University. In her research, she focuses on art education and creativity, leadership, data visualization, feminist art education, art talent development, global art education, and art education policy issues. She has written extensively and recently has co-edited two new NAEA books, Connecting Creativity Research and Practice in Art Education and Cultural Sensitivity in a Global World. She is an NAEA Distinguished Fellow, was the first NAEA Research Commissioner Chair, and recently served as a Research Commissioner. She was an NAEA Women’s Caucus President and has taught or conducted workshops in over 25 countries. She has received the NAEA Art Educator of the Year, Ziegfeld, Lowenfeld, and Barkan awards. Recent awards are the Distinguished Lecture in Art Education at Miami University; the Davis Lecture in Art Education at North Texas University; and the NAEA Elliot Eisner Lifetime Achievement Award. Through the Prism: Looking at the Spectrum of Writings of Enid Zimmerman, published by NAEA, summarizes her influences on art education through her own contributions and those of her former students and colleagues.