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Developing Visual Arts Education in the United States: Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Normalization of Creativity

Readers who are studying the histories of art education, higher education, Massachusetts and Boston civic and political culture, women’s studies, as well as the emergence of creativity, industrial arts, drawing education, and color studies, will find much to use in Mary Ann Stankiewicz’s Developing Visual Arts Education in the United States: Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Normalization of Creativity (2016). Stankiewicz brings to this project her considerable experience as a historian of art education, including her work on aesthetic education and Henry Turner Bailey. She also brings to this volume her experience with art education’s professional association, the National Art Education Association, where her interest in policy shaped her work as president (2003–2005). As with other projects taken on by Stankiewicz, this newest work is thoroughly researched, carefully crafted, and competently narrated. “Like all well-constructed narratives,