At InSEA, we believe that art transforms people’s lives.
Gifts in Wills are an important and crucial source of funding, providing lasting support which will help to safeguard InSEA’s ability to enrich more people’s lives now and in the future. Remember InSEA in your will
There are many ways you can make a gift which is both simple and efficient:
Residuary: the amount left over after all other costs, for example, funeral expenses, have been deducted
Pecuniary: a fixed sum of money
Specific: a gift of a particular named item, for example, a painting, building or land
Reversionary: a gift to a loved one for use during his or her lifetime which can then be passed onto a specified charity after this time
Leaving a gift in your will is an effective lasting contribution without any immediate outlay. Legacies left to charities are free from inheritance tax, which means a legacy could result in your tax bill being reduced.
If you have already made a will, you can add an amendment, known as a codicil, which InSEA can provide for you. We do recommend that you consult with your legal advisor when deciding upon making a legacy.
By making a gift to InSEA, you are recognising the work that we do and the difference we make to people’s lives. No gift is too large or too small. Whatever the size, your gift can and will make a difference.
TALK TO US
Leaving a gift in your will is an important decision to make.
If you would like to find out more, or have an informal chat please contact the Treasurer, Secretary or President via the CONTACT US page.
Your gift will be treated with confidentiality and with sensitivity.
We hope to hear from you soon.
Vice-President
I’m really honoured to have been re-elected as Vice President of InSEA for 2025–2027. This community means a great deal to me—full of passionate, creative people who believe in the power of art education to connect, challenge, and change things for the better. I’m looking forward to continuing the work, building relationships across the world, and helping make sure everyone feels part of this global conversation. Thank you so much for the trust—let’s keep learning from each other and doing what we can to make art education strong, relevant, and full of possibility.
World Councillor: South East Asia & The Pacific
Kathryn is a passionate visual artist, community artist, arts educator and an internationally published interdisciplinary visual arts researcher residing in Newcastle, NSW, Australia. She is long-time member of InSEA, a current the SEAP representative on the World Council and Reviews Editor of the International Journal of Education through Art, 2023.
Kathryn’s practice and research scholarship draws on neuroscience, enactive cognition, creative learning and Deleuzoguattarian thinking. Her focus includes visual arts and design, art/science, arts-education, narrative research; arts-based methods; the performative work of image construction; critical and social inquiry; subjectivity insights; embodied learning and visual performative pedagogies as they surround the contemporary subject.
kath.grushka[at]newcastle.edu.au
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4228-3606
Instagram. @kath.grushka
World Councillor
Katie is an arts-based educational researcher with expertise in a/r/tography, participatory methodologies, and arts-informed inquiry. Based at Southern Cross University, Australia her doctoral thesis, We Make Art and It Makes Us: An A/r/tographic Exploration of Generalist Primary Teachers’ Creative Self-Belief (2022), employed Whiteheadian process philosophy to investigate the relationship between art-making and teacher identity. Another focus of Katie’s research is climate justice and environmental education through child-framed participatory research. A self-taught visual artist, she is committed to making the visual arts accessible and inclusive for all learners. Katie is an editor for the International Journal of Education through Art.
. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1779-7664
https://researchportal.scu.edu.au/esploro/profile/katie_hotko
InSEA Designer / Editor
Moira Douranou
(Emerging Leader in Education through Art)
Moira Douranou is a multidisciplinary designer and visual artist. She holds a master's degree in arctic art & design from the University of Lapland, Finland, and a bachelor’s degree in interior architecture, decorative arts & design from TEI of Athens, Greece. She has been participating in cross-disciplinary research projects on socially engaged practices (Common ground, ArtGear, Utopia Ltd.) since 2016 and she is working in networking organisations since 2018. Her interest lies on the tangible and intangible, human and non-human structures. She believes in people and networking in order to evoke, manage and achieve social change.
publicationsdesign.moira@insea.org
World Councillor
I am highly honoured to be elected for a third term to the InSEA World Council representing Africa and the Middle East. I remain steadfast in my commitment to advancing the Society’s mission across our region, despite the unique challenges of visibility, access, and engagement that often confront arts education organisations in Africa. Drawing on the insights and relationships cultivated during my previous terms, I will work diligently to foster inclusive participation, strengthen national networks, and attract new members. Together with my fellow Councillors, we shall amplify InSEA’s voice and reaffirm the transformative power of education through art across our diverse region.
Chair: InSEA Europe Region Council (Executive Board)
It is about my/our project, ATAE. Art Teachers' Art Exhibition for InSEA 70 anniversary. I have discussed the idea at 2023 InSEA meeting in Turkey with Andrew Ash, Rolf Laven and Petra Sobanova. They said - good idea! Christiana Africaner is a person, with whom I started this concept again, some years ago. But, ATAE was in my mind already in 2012, when there was a teachers´strike in Estonia. Teachers´artworks were exposed then in Estonian Parliament. In Jan. 2024, we had teachers´strike again. Strikes are the reaction to the arrogance and empty promises of Estonian government parties of the last, almost 15+ years. They do not care of the teachers. Salaries are extremely low, as compared to the amount of work. Inflation is hugh and strategic goods prices have risen sky-high during these years. Please have a look at my homepage, dear colleagues! Tõnu Talve - Live Art https://talvetonu.ee
InSEA Designer / Editor
Viola Rekvenyi
(Emerging Leader in Education through Art)
Amused by the combination of time and still image, Viola’s art is guided by the progressive trends and directions of our age. Her everyday is defined by taking in as well as creating art, becoming the base of her design or research projects. Utilising her diverse artistic degrees from the Glasgow School of Art’s Interaction Design (BDesHons) as well as Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design’s Animation (MA), along with studies at Concordia University in Montréal (Design and Computation Arts) and the University of Barcelona (Facultat de Belles Arts), she constantly widens her horizons and keeps discovering new directions to grow.
viola.rekvenyi[at]gmail.com
World Councillor: Europe Region
For more than two decades, I have split my life between Finland and the United States. I believe that experiencing life this way, by working and living in these two continents, have provided me with a simultaneous insider-outsider perspective to both of the educational systems and cultures of arts education research and practice. This dual perspective has allowed me to observe and critically study how issues important to me, such as diversity, equity, human and animals rights, antinormative education, practices of democracy and activism/slow resistance, have been addressed and developing in these societies, and how the discourse of arts education has evolved in relation to broader social and cultural changes and transitions.
europe.anniina[at]insea.org
World Councillor: North America Region
As a member of InSEA, I am privileged to participate in many dynamic and engaging events that inspire my commitment to the worldwide community of art education. My focus in research and teaching continues to advance sustainable development, knowledge commons and global citizenry, and it is in that capacity I would like to continue to contribute to the Association as a world counsellor. I believe joining together and supporting art for all opens transnational and transdisciplinary dialogues by fostering equity, diversity,
inclusivity and accessibility+ as the ethic of practice. Building on this disposition and on past experiences – community art education, conference organisation, editorial activities – I actively seek to generate exchanges and collaborations that promote greater cultural diversity, intercultural dialogues and social inclusion.
northamerica.anita.sinner[at]insea.org
World Councillor
My work in art education and museum practice is rooted in Latin America, where I highlight the diversity of cultural production and educational approaches from the Global South. I teach at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, focusing on museum education and digital strategies. In Colombia, I have led residency programs at the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art (MAMBO) and Proyecto Binario, connecting formal and informal learning. I advocate for culturally grounded practices and recognize multiple ways of knowing. At InSEA, I aim to ensure Latin American voices are actively and meaningfully represented.
World Councillor
I am a professor in the Department of Fine Arts at National Changhua University of Education in Taiwan. I have a longstanding connection to InSEA, having served as a World Council member (2011–2014), Asia Regional Council secretary (2019–2022), and journal reviewer since 2004. My research areas include the history of visual art education, narrative inquiry into students’ art learning, and the promotion of cross-cultural understanding through art. I believe in the power of art to bridge cultural boundaries, foster empathy and understanding, and support inclusive, reflective educational practices through global collaboration.
World Councillor
I am delighted to be collaborating with you all through our shared work in InSEA. I have served as Chair (2024–2025) and Secretary (2022–2024) of the InSEA Asia Regional Council, promoting inclusive collaboration across cultures. My research centres on arts-based and a/r/tographic approaches to cross-cultural understanding in art education. Through international projects, I have endeavoured to co-develop practices that connect communities and enhance mutual understanding. I aspire to continue fostering global collaboration by creating shared platforms and spaces for creative dialogue. Together, let us weave a rich and beautiful tapestry of diversity in art education.
koichi_kasahara_art
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3855-4642
https://www.facebook.com/koichi.kasahara.96
World Councillor: North America
As a native of Jamaica, I was formally educated in Jamaica, Mexico, and the United States. I taught and provided leadership in education administration for over 40 years, traveled and consulted in more than 30 countries in applying arts education to solve problems. These experiences guide my perspectives about the lives of people, their politics, their struggles, and their fight for justice, equality, diversity, and inclusions. I will bring these experiences to bear on InSEA’s policies and practices and reach out to my North America constituencies, listen and represent their voices, and work to address their issues with fellow councilors.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8939-5381
Principal Editor: International Journal of Education through Art
Tara Winters is a senior lecturer in Fine Arts, and programme director of undergraduate studies, at the Elam School of Fine Arts and Design, Te Waka Tuhura, The University of Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand. I am fascinated by conceptualisations of studio learning and the university as a studio. My research focuses on creative arts higher education and the art school in society. I have authored articles on a range of topics including research-oriented pedagogies developing in parallel to the rise of artistic research within academia, the development of a structure for facilitating meta-learning in art and design education, and inquiry into the power of images as a catalyst for transformative learning. I am the principal editor of the International Journal of Education Through Art (InSEA in partnership with Intellect Books).
ijetaeditor.tarawinters[at]insea.org
World Councillor
In a time of perma-crisis, Art Education is not merely aesthetic enjoyment but a vital mode of thinking that creates meaning amid uncertainty. Its current recognition is a rare opportunity demanding focus, deep listening, and political imagination. As European councillor for InSEA, I advocate an Art Education that nurtures critical and creative individuals and strengthens translocal networks of co-creation. Through collective and embodied aesthetic practices, we glimpse the potential to reimagine the commons and dare the improbable. It is precisely there that Art Education must affirm its role with clarity and originality.
Treasurer
Celia Ferreira is InSEA Treasurer and Membership Secretary (2019-2025) and an InSEA member since 2006. PhD Student in Child Studies-Artistic Education Specialty. MA in art Education. Post-Graduation in Pedagogical Supervision. Secondary school art teacher in Portugal.
Research interests: Education through art; textile art, handicrafts, community art and heritage.
treasurer.celiaferreira[at]insea.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9082-7014
President
Céad míle fáilte! I am a proud Irish woman and have been an art educator for almost 40 years at both 2nd and 3rd level. As President of InSEA, I will adopt an inclusive leadership approach and work tirelessly to : Increase membership from regions that are under-represented in the society, adopt a global perspective on current issues and opportunities in art education and ensure that InSEA members have voice and influence on the development of art education policy globally. I will work with you, and for you, to foster creativity, advance equity and enable Art Education without borders.
Vice-President
Mira Kallio-Tavin (Doctor or Arts) is the Winnie Chandler Distinguished Professor of Art in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, USA. Before she worked as associate professor and the Head of Research in the Department of Art at Aalto University, Finland. Dr. Kallio-Tavin serves as the Vice President of InSEA for 2022-2025, and was European World Councilor for 2019-2022. As a Vice President she focuses developing the work of the Research and Praxis board and navigates the future research opportunities for InSEA.
vice-president.mira@insea.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6131-4033
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World Councillor
Prince Olusegun Michael Adeniyi is a multi-award-winning art educator, green champion, and social entrepreneur. He teaches Art at RAIS Nigeria, and he is the founder of Teaching-Visual-Art.
Among his many global accolades are the 2023 Pearson Global Outstanding Innovator of the Year award and recognition as a 2021 $1 Million Global Teacher Prize Finalist for placing his school on the map for artistic excellence.
Prince Olusegun has dedicated his career to advancing the learning field of art and raising the standard of art education through meaningful, interdisciplinary, and globally relevant practices.
Editor, IMAG
I strive to help future educators replenish their artistic identities, engage in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary learning, address environmental and social justice and help schools transform from traditional curriculum to integrated arts. At Saint Michael's College, Vermont, USA I coordinated Arts Education and taught courses on aesthetics, interdisciplinary curriculum, creativity, and environmental art. As visiting professor fall 2019 at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan I integrated arts with holistic education. I currently co-edit InSEA’s IMAG and section edit for InSEA’s Learning through Art #3. I maintain my artistic identity through ceramics, watercolors, and sculpture and sanity by baking bread and climbing mountains.
imag@insea.org
Candidate for InSEA World Councillors: Asia Region
The Asia Region within InSEA is diverse and dynamic territories in the world, encompassing a vast range of cultures, languages, educational systems, and artistic traditions. From centralized national curricula to more decentralized frameworks, there are a variety of approaches to visual arts education. Each country contributes unique visual languages and philosophies of aesthetics, often rooted in spiritual and philosophical traditions. There's a growing movement across the region to decolonize art education and amplify local narratives in global forums. Integration of digital media, interdisciplinary art, and community-based practices are increasingly prominent.
World Councillor
My name is Tarcila Lima da Costa. I am an art educator and artist, and my research focuses on the intersection between art and health. I currently serve as a professor of Visual Arts and as the vice-director of the Faculty of Architecture, Arts, Communication, and Design (FAAC/UNESP – Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil).
In my work, I emphasize the vital role of art and art education in building a better society. I believe that InSEA plays a key role in connecting us, providing powerful opportunities for exchange through conferences, webinars, and other gatherings.
Past President
I joined InSEA in 1996 as an artist and educator, after a decade navigating the lively intersections of formal (secondary) and informal (community/environmental) education — spaces where ideas grow wild and learning resists neat labels. Nearly 30 years in the university sector have seen me wear many hats: twice Elected World Councillor; IJETA Principal Editor (2010–16); Vice-President (2014–17); Secretary (2017–19); President (2019–2025); Chair of the Publications Board (–2025); editor of over a dozen books. As Past President, I remain deeply committed to art education. The world may wobble, but art helps keep us steady.
glen_coutts_artist
@glencouttsart
https://www.linkedin.com/in/glencoutts
World Councillor
I´m a teacher, artist and researcher with over 20 years of experience in arts education. At the University of Chile, I promote the teaching and learning of art didactics from a critical, contextual and transformative perspective. As a Regional Council member of InSEA, I´m committed to strengthening arts education in our region by fostering networks, research, and collaborative initiatives. I believe in art as a powerful tool for social change, critical thinking and the creation of more just, diverse, and creative communities. My vision aligns with InSEA´s principles: promoting intercultural understanding and creativity as fundamental human rights.
danicobosb
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5152-9874
danicobosb
http://www.linkedin.com/in/daniela-cobos-255a81b1
World Councillor
Leticia is committed to advancing InSEA’s mission by fostering intercultural understanding, ethical collaboration, and inclusive practices through art as a form of dialogue and connection. She aims to strengthen networks of educators in Europe organizing webinars as co-learning spaces, designing collaborative projects, and contributing to cross-regional publications aligned with UNESCO’s Art and Culture Sustainable Development Goals. Through these efforts, she seeks to bridge formal and non-formal educational settings and promote art education as a transformative force across global contexts.
@themulticulturalartclass/
World Councillor
Thank you for your trust. I look forward to working as a councillor for North America, engaging our communities in international artistic and educational exchanges. I am a visual artist, a community arts practitioner, a lifelong learner, and an art educator. My research interests include socially engaged art, holistic pedagogies, quiet activism, and arts research.
I am committed to supporting InSEA's social justice projects and advocacy for education through arts. As a board member, I will work to expand our community to include voices from other parts of the continent. As artists, art teachers, scholars and educators, we need each other.
World Councillor
Dr. Khalil is a University Professor of Curriculum and Methodology of Teaching Art Education and Museum Education Programs at Helwan University's Art Education College. elected Vice President of PACC/ 6 (2025-2029) and InSea Councilor for Africa & Middle East (2019-2025). Dr. Khalil is a member of the Permanent Culture and Arts Committee at The Egyptian National Council for Women (2025-2029). including being Director Manager for the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil & his Wife Museum. Dr. Khalil is a contributor to the African Union's art education strategy and active in numerous international associations, AFRAA, WAAE, ISATT, ICOM Africa, EFTA, INHWE, Rotary Egypt.
World Councillor
Agnieszka is currently and Assistant Professor of Art Education at the National Institute for Education in Singapore (NIE). Before joining NIE, she was an Assistant Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Toronto and lectured at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Her research interests include issues-based art education, art therapy informed art education, arts integration, art museum education, teacher education, and both assessment and program evaluation in the arts. Agnieszka has a broad base of teaching and leadership experience across a wide range of formal and informal learning settings and is an award-winning secondary art teacher.
World Councillor
My journey in Arts Education is grounded in decades of teaching and leadership across Namibia. Engagement with InSEA deepened my conviction that arts can transform societies and drive justice. This inspired my studies in Arts Education and led to the founding of the Africa Arts Association (AfrAA)—a continental platform fostering creative expression, cultural identity, and policy influence. Through training, research, and advocacy, I champion inclusive, community-rooted arts education that empowers youth, uplifts heritage and amplifies African voices in global dialogues.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christiana-deliewen-afrikaner-a147043b/
. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4621-9633
Chair: Asia Region Council
Dr. Hsin-Yi Chao is an assistant professor at National Chung Hsing University with an architectural doctoral degree and master of fine arts, specializing in digital humanities and inclusive cultural practices. She is the founder and president of the Taiwan Art Beyond Vision Association, dedicated to advancing non-visual aesthetic education and accessibility for people with visual impairments. With expertise in curatorship, universal design, and sensory-based art education, Chao has curated inclusive exhibitions and developed tactile and audio resources to foster cultural participation. Her work bridges academic research and social impact, promoting equality and creativity through innovative, multi-sensory approaches in museums and education.
UNESCO Liaison
De nombreuses conférences et publications internationales portant sur la créativité, la question de l’artistique chez les élèves, la prise de risque en art, l’ audace, l' imaginaire, la sensibilité et l’esprit critique, l’art et l’émancipation du sujet, auteur/acteur, et une interrogation sur la singularité de chacun et l’accès à l’altérité.
De nombreuses interventions pour l’ouverture culturelle et l’accès à l’art auprès des musées, des structures partenaires afin de défendre le droit fondamental de tous à la culture et l’accès au patrimoine .
Une très grande implication sur les rapports entre l’art et les valeurs humaines, l’engagement, la compréhension entre les peuples, le métissage des cultures et le rôle de l’art en faveur de la paix.
Des écrits sur l’image et ses influences, sur la plasticité du langage liée à la culture et à la pratique (Praxis) comme expérience singulière. Au plan international un engagement au coeur de l’Insea et auprès de l’Unesco pour faire reconnaître le rôle de l’éducation artistique et culturelle en faveur de la paix, de l’environnement, d’un monde multiculturel.
Principal Editor (Elect): International Journal of Education through Art
Joy G. Bertling is an associate professor and program coordinator of art education at the University of Tennessee. Her research engages with place-based art pedagogies and ecopedagogies, including the ways in which they can intersect with data visualization practices. Her book Art Education for a Sustainable Planet: Embracing Ecopedagogy in K-12 Classrooms was published with Teachers College Press. She has published articles in various peer-reviewed journals including the International Journal of Education through Art, Studies in Art Education, Art Education, and Environmental Education Research. She currently directs the Arts-Based DataVisualization Project, a project funded by the U.S. Department of Education. As Principal Editor-Elect of the International Journal of Education through Art, Joy works to ensure the journal’s policies and practices are in alignment with InSEA’s mission to “promote and advance education through art, design and crafts in all countries, in addition to intercultural understanding.”
ijetaeditor.joybertling@insea.org