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Discussion of the Psychology of Art and Art Education with Ellen Winner, Ph.D.
May 11, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Wellesley Society of Artists’ “Awakenings 2022″ lecture program with psychologist Ellen Winner, PhD will be held on Wednesday, May 11 at 7pm. The lecture is hosted by the Wellesley Society of Artists in partnership with the Wellesley Free Library and funded by a Wellesley Cultural Council grant.
Dr. Ellen Winner, Professor Emerita of Psychology at Boston College, specializes in the psychology of art. Having received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Harvard University, her research focuses on cognition in the arts and the impact of art education on the development of our thinking habits.
The lecture will focus on psychologists’ discoveries about how we evaluate works of art, as discussed in her book How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration, as well as the tumultuous history of art education in the US, the subject of her new book: An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse: Art Education from Colonial Times to a Promising Future.
This public lecture, “A Discussion of the Psychology of Art and Art Education” will be beneficial to parents, educators, and students who are interested in learning more about how art education impacts the ways in which we think, communicate, and engage with the world through the unique habits of mind developed in the studio art classroom.
The lecture will be held both in person at the Wellesley Free Library and online. Registration is limited to 20 guests for in-person and 100 attendees online. To participate in the program, advance registration is required for all attendees via this link: https://
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