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Renee Sandell is professor and director of the MAT in Art Education Program at George Mason University since 2004. From 1989-2003, she worked as professor of Art Education at The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Dr. Sandell holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Art Education from The Ohio State University. Her research and teaching interests include visual literacy, gender concerns, and multicultural issues in art education, studio pedagogy, art and healing, museum education, technology and learning, and the professional development of teachers. With Dr. Georgia Collins, Renee Sandell is co-author of Women, Art, and Education, published in 1984 by the National Art Education Association (NAEA) and co-editor of the 1996 NAEA anthology Gender Issues in Art Education: Content, Contexts, and Strategies. She has contributed chapters to Handbook For Achieving Gender Equity Through Education, Gender And Education: An Encyclopedia, Readings In Discipline-Based Art Education: A Literature Of Educational Reform, Research Methods and Methodologies for Art Education, Preservice Art Education: Issues and Practice, Lessons for Teaching and Art Criticism. She has published articles in professional journals including Studies in Art Education, Art Education, and CAA News. Renee Sandell's installations of ink and watercolor markings explore the human condition in time, space, and place.
Dr. Sandell's art education leadership includes an active record of service to the field. She has served on several art education editorial boards and was a member of the Advisory Board of School Arts magazine. She worked as a reviewer and consultant for published art programs such as Art Works and Portfolios: State of the Art Program, for which she also wrote Assessment for the middle school level. She has presented workshops for the National Gallery of Art's Summer Teacher Institute and has served as a consultant to various school systems, museums, cultural organizations as well as the Maryland State Department of Education. During Spring 2002, Dr. Sandell was scholar-in-residence in the School of Education at American University, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Renee Sandell has served as Director of NAEA’s Higher Education Division and a member of the CAA’s Education Committee.A NAEA Distinguished Fellow since 2001, Renee Sandell was recently elected by the Studies in Art Education Editorial Board to give the 2008 Invited Studies Lecture as a leading scholar in art education. She also received the 2008 Southeastern Higher Education Art Educator Award given by the National Art Education Association’s Higher Education Division “in recognition of outstanding achievement and exemplary service to the association and to the art education profession.” The Virginia Art Education Association awarded Renee Sandell the 2006 Higher Education Art Educator of the Year. Dr. Sandell's honors include the 1999 June King McFee Award, 1997 National Higher Education Art Educator of the Year Award, 1994 Manuel Barkan Award (with co-author Dr. Georgia Collins), 1994 Mary J. Rouse Award, 1991 NAEA Eastern Higher Education Art Educator of the Year Award, and 1990 Higher Education Art Educator of the Year by the Maryland Art Education Association.
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