Anna Kindler

Professor, Vice Provost and Associate Vice-President Academic, UBC

Cross-cultural research
Social cognition of art
Artistic Development

Dr. Anna Kindler is Vice Provost and Associate Vice President Academic and Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

She received an MA in Industrial/Graphic Design from the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland, followed by a second MA and a doctorate in Art Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Kindler joined UBC in 1990. Between 2001 – 2004, she was on leave from the University and served as Dean of the School of Creative Arts, Sciences and Technology at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.

Professor Kindler has gained international recognition for her research in artistic development, social cognition of art, museum education, multiculturalism and cross-cultural research, and has published widely in these areas. Her work in teacher education has focused on case-based learning and creativity in the classroom. She has been a member of editorial boards and review panels of major international journals and research granting agencies and served as Vice President of the Canadian Society for Education through Art. She has contributed as a consultant to the British Columbia and Hong Kong governments on matters of curriculum reform and quality assurance. She is also a practicing artist exploring the medium of photography and has exhibited her work in North America, Europe and Asia.

Professor Kindler’s contributions have been recognized through numerous awards, including the Sam Black Award for Education and Development in the Visual and Creative Arts; the Lowenfeld Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art Education; the International Ziegfeld Award for outstanding and internationally recognized contribution to art education through achievement in scholarly writing and research; and the NAEA Distinguished Fellow Award.

Kindler, A. M. (2005). Creativity and art education. International Journal of Art Education. 3(2).

Kindler, A. M. (2005). DVD: Revealing the Unseen. Photographs by Anna M. Kindler (A. J. Wroblewski, Dir.) Vancouver, BC: AJW.

Kindler. A. M. (2004). Researching impossible? Models of artistic development reconsidered. In E. W. Eisner & M. Day (Eds.) Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 233-252.

Kindler, A. M. (2004). Introduction: Artistic Development and Learning. In E. W. Eisner & M. Day (Eds.) Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 227-232.

Kindler, A. M., Liu, W C., Pariser, D. and van den Berg, A. (2003). A Cultural Perspective on Graphic Development: Aesthetic Assessment of Local and Foreign Drawings in Taiwan. Research in Arts Education, May (5), 23-47.

Kindler, A. M. (2003). Visual Culture, Visual Brain and (Art) Education. Studies in Art Education, 44(3), 290-296.