Artist/Researcher/Teacher

My name is Stephanie Baer and I am a professor of art education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I love my work. I love that I get to be part of evolving conversations that have been going on since the beginning of time - that of the arts and learning. My interest is where these concepts merge. And they do. Everywhere.
This talk was given at TEDxMiamiUniversity Genesis; Added Jun 16, 2015; To see this on the TED site, click here. ARTed Talks, established in 2015 and modeled after TED.com, can be found here.
Dr. Baer at TEDx: Fear is an ever-present element in the experience of teaching and learning - specifically in the arts. 'I can't draw...I'm just not that creative....I only draw stick-figures..." What if we could enable our students (and our future teachers) to deliberately confront fear and work with it? ​
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I am an artist/researcher/teacher. I have been in practice my entire life. Degrees and certifications have been earned along the way, but I am always learning and re-learning, and adjusting to what it means to be an artist, a researcher, and a teacher. In no particular order, these identities define my work and my view of life. I am not one without the other - they work fluidly to inform one another. 

On this site I provide my philosophies of art and teaching as well as my CV and examples of my work. Feel free to contact me. Miami's Art Education program is also featured on our advising site: muarteducation.com