Meet Our Board

HHAE Co-Chair
​ Pamela Lawton

Dr. Pamela Harris Lawton, a fifth-generation educator from Washington, DC, is the Florence Gaskins Harper Endowed Chair in Art Education at MICA. She received her BA in Studio Art and Sociology from the University of Virginia, her MFA in Printmaking from Howard University, and her EdDCTA from Teachers College, Columbia University. Lawton’s scholarly research and teaching revolves around visual narrative and intergenerational arts learning in BIPOC community settings and historical research on BIPOC artists/art educators. Her artwork is grounded in social liberation seeking to illuminate contemporary issues, cultural traditions and the stories of people impacted by them.
Honors and awards include: the J. Eugene Grigsby Award (COMC/NAEA); the Pearl Greenberg Award for Teaching and Research in Art Education; Distinguished Chair Fulbright at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland; Tate Modern Exchange Associate Artist (London for VCUarts); and regional and international artist residencies. Her artworks are in collections at: the Library of Congress; National Museum of Women in the Arts; Tate Britain Library; University of Edinburgh; numerous university library special collections; Eugene and Florence Myers Charitable Unitrust, and the Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center.

HHAE Co-Chair
​​Margaret Walker

​Dr. Margaret A. Walker has been an artist and educator in a variety of community, school, museum, and university settings in New York, Maryland and DC. She has taught studio art in NYC at Lexington School for the Deaf and in a community art school, and worked as a museum educator at the Isamu Noguchi Museum. Margaret received her Ed.D. in Art and Art Education at Teachers College Columbia University and is currently Clinical Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Art Education program at the University of Maryland.
          Margaret’s research focus is on community based art education, and joins students with community members in Maryland and Washington, DC to develop community-based artworks that explore themes of community and human experience. She recently co-wrote with Pam Lawton and Melissa Green On Common Ground: Community-Based Art Education Across the Lifespan, published by Teachers College Press in July 2019. Margaret teaches a course in the History of Arts Education, in which students develop research projects into lost and untold stories in arts education history. She is a painter and mixed-media artist in the DC area.

HHAE Co-Chair-Elect
​Amber C. Coleman

• Dr. Amber C. Coleman is an educator, researcher, and creative, who is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in Art Education at Arizona State University. She received her Ph.D. in Art & Visual Culture Education from the University of Arizona in 2022, and her research focused on documenting the narratives of Black women art educators to contribute to the history of art education. Her praxis centers the lens of Black feminisms, critical pedagogical strategies, and arts-based research methods as she investigates underrecognized narratives and engagements within the visual arts and education. She has forthcoming publications about Black women’s experiences within the history of art education.

HHAE Co-Chair-Elect
​Jennifer Schero​

• Dr. Jennifer Schero is a PreK-12 certified art educator, independent scholar, museum educator, and artist who received her PhD from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research focused on docent coordinators’ perceptions, and she has since published work on museum education history and the intersection of tradition and change in docent programs. She currently teaches elementary art and graduate art education courses. She joined the National Art Education Association Research Commission as Elementary Commissioner in 2025 and is a graduate of NAEA's School for Art Leaders.

​Secretary
​Debra Hardy

Dr. Debra Hardy is an art, museum, and community educator focused on challenging racism and crafting equity within arts education. She received her PhD. Arts Administration, Education, and Policy in Spring 2022 from The Ohio State University and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Education at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.​

Chair of Communication and Membership
​Indira Bailey

​Dr. Indira Bailey is an Assistant Professor of Art Education at Claflin University. She earned a dual-title doctorate in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies from The Pennsylvania State University, a BFA in Communication Design from Pratt Institute, and a MA in Educational Leadership and Supervision from Kean University. She has over 20 years of teaching experience in the K-12 sector and community art programs. Bailey’s research specializes in anti-racism, race, and gender inequity of K-12 teaching resources, curriculum development, and the underrepresentation of Black artists. She draws on Black feminist thought, critical race feminism, outsider-within positionality, and social justice theory to create an inclusive and diverse curriculum. You can see Bailey’s artwork at www.ibdesignstudio.com

Chair of Publications (Alternative and Traditional)
Ann Holt

Ann Holt, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of art education at Penn State. She is an advisor and artist teacher with Arts Action Group, an international community-based collective committed to facilitating arts initiatives with children and youth in conflict-affected environments. She serves as research coordinator of the National Art Education Association (NAEA) Women’s Caucus and an NAEA liaison to NYSATA’s ED&I task force.
Her research, teaching, and writing encompass social justice issues involving marginalized art education histories, arts, and culture in global development, social transformation, and healing as well as research on and with archives to broaden understanding about engaging art education archival records. 
Holt holds a B.F.A. in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and an M.A. in art education from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She completed her doctoral work in art education with a minor in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Penn State exploring a feminist transdisciplinary orientation to the Judy Chicago Art Education Collection. Holt’s artmaking encompasses a variety of materials and responds to her lived experience, research, and teaching.

Chair of Best Practices in History and Historiography
Paul Bolin

Dr. Paul Bolin received his Ph.D. in Art Education from the University of Oregon and taught there between 1986 and 1992 before moving to The Pennsylvania State University, where he was a member of the School of Visual Arts faculty from 1992 to 2001. In the fall 2001, Bolin began teaching at The University of Texas at Austin before retiring in 2018 and honored with emeritus status.
      Bolin has edited, co-edited, and co-authored seven books including his most recent co-authored volume: Steppingstones: Pivotal Moments in Art Education History.
He has also published numerous book chapters and articles, and presented his research at various conferences and research meetings throughout North America.
      Dr. Bolin has received many awards including the 2001 Outstanding Art Educator of the Year from the Pennsylvania Art Education Association, as well as the Texas Higher Education Art Educator of the Year in 2009. NAEA honored Dr. Bolin with the Manuel Barkan Memorial Award for published research in both 1997 and 2007. He is also an elected distinguished fellow with both the NAEA in 2009 and the Texas Art Education Association in 2016.

Chair Awards and Nominations
Sue Uhlig ​ 

​Sue Uhlig is an art educator who currently is a Ph.D. candidate in Art Education at Penn State University and a Limited Term Lecturer in Art and Design at Purdue University. She previously served as supervisor of Penn State student teachers who were doing their field experiences in K-12 art in State College and in the Pittsburgh area. Prior to beginning her studies at Penn State, she was a continuing lecturer in Art and Design at Purdue for ten years where she taught numerous courses in art appreciation, art history, and art education.

Treasurer
Felix Rodriguez Suero​

​Felix is an Assistant Professor of Art Education at Illinois State University. He holds a PhD in Art Education with a minor in Latin American Studies from the Pennsylvania State University. He completed his Master's degree at the University of Cincinnati as a Fulbright scholar. Felix was granted the 2020 Dominican National Archive historical essay award for his research on the history of Art Education in the Dominican Republic. Socially engaged-art education, art education history, K-12 curriculum development, critical pedagogy, and postcolonial theories are converging interests in Felix’s teaching, research, and art making practices. Felix is particularly interested in the possibilities of the art curriculum to address social, cultural, and institutional narratives that have marginalized African aesthetics, with a particular focus on the Caribbean experience. Felix is a member of the Editorial Review Board for Art Education.  
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