Professor, Ph.D. | Issues in Art Education

Visual Art Studies

Department of Art & Art History

j.ulbricht@mail.utexas.edu

- Vitae: curriculum vitae

- Office: ART 3.402

- Phone: +1 512-471-4970

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Professor J. Ulbricht earned his Ph.D. degree in art education at the University of Iowa. He taught in the Shawnee Mission (KS) Public Schools and at Wichita State University before starting at the University of Texas at Austin. He currently teaches Introduction to Visual Art Studies, Research in Art Education, and Contemporary Issues in Art Education.

Ulbricht's peer reviewed publications and presentations develop topics such as interdisciplinary teaching, green aesthetics, "invisible" teachers, advocacy, self-taught artists, art careers, community-based art education, political aspects of art, and preparing teachers for uncertainty. Book chapters appear in the Annual Book of Contemporary Folk Art in Finland, and Stokrocki's Interdisciplinary Art Education Builds Bridges to Connect Discipline. Recent articles on child art development, new trends in art education research, plus visual and material culture appear in Art Education, Art Education Advisory, and Studies in Art Education, respectively.

Ulbricht's current research interests include the use of autobiography, auto ethnography, personal narrative, and arts-based research. Through constructing and interrogating personal histories, educators can distance themselves from past actions and bring into greater awareness the values that inform teaching and research. Exploratory work in these areas includes a presentation titled "Arts-based Research for Teachers and Students," and a manuscript titled "Improving our Teaching and Research through Self-Study."

Ulbricht served on the National Art Education Association's (NAEA) Publication Committee and he was a reviewer for Art Education and Visual Arts Research for over ten years each. He edited Texas Trends in Art Education, the journal of the Texas Art Education Association (TAEA). Members of the Texas Association of Schools of Art (TASA) elected Ulbricht to the TASA Board for three terms and presented him with an Achievement Award in 2005. The Texas Education Agency awarded Ulbricht with a $30,000 grant. In 1998, he received the John D. Murchison Fellowship in Art for travel and research.

For the UT Department of Art and Art History, Ulbricht assumed multiple and continuous administrative assignments including Associate and Acting Chair, Undergraduate Advisor, Art Education Division Chair, and Graduate Advisor. He implemented, with Susan M. Mayer as lecturer, one of the first art museum education programs in the U.S. Outreach activities included his activation and coordination of the Central Texas Scholastic Art Awards, plus several TAEA workshops, and TASA conferences.