Dr. Kit Grauer

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Associate Professor Emerita

Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy

Since retirement in 2013, Kit Grauer has remained actively involved in art education organizations at the local, national, and international levels. She is currently Principal or Co Investigator on two Social Sciences and Humanities Research grants. Dr. Grauer’s interests include arts-based and image-based research, community-based new media education, international issues in art education, teacher education, museum education, and art curriculum and instruction. She has given numerous presentations, in-service sessions, and keynote speeches in these areas. Currently she is teaching Elder College art classes with her husband, Peter Scurr, running printmaking events on Galiano at their studio and is Vice Chair of the Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historical Society Board of Directors.

Website

  • International Society for Education Through Art World Congress 2019 (InSEA 2019)

    July 9-13, 2019

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INQt2BA7hvg

    The InSEA World Congress held at UBC across five days in July 2019 offered art educators an opportunity to theorize and practice ‘making’ in art education.  Through a diverse array of sessions, workshops and field experiences, delegates were able to reimagine and reflect upon ‘making’ in art education. Situating ‘making’ within Vancouver and Canada offered an opportunity to emphasize concepts such as emplacement, being out of place, and being of the place.  Moreover, UBC is on Musqueam First Nations unceded and ancestral territory.  At the intersection of Indigenous and multicultural perspectives, Vancouver becomes a meeting point for hybrid identities, experimental ideas and place-based consciousness.

Publications

  • Grauer, K. (2014) Elliot Eisner: A Canadian Perspective and Personal Tribute. International Journal of Education & the Arts. 15.SI 1-6.
    2014
  • Grauer, K. ‘I thought I saw you …, but it was only your hair’ Visual Arts Research.40.1 (2014):54-56.
    2014
  • Cunningham, F., Lin, C., & Grauer, K. (2014). Who I (really) am: An exploration of urban Aboriginal identity through short films. The Canadian Art Teachers, 12(2), 29-38.
    2014