Susan Barahal    Bookmark and Share   

 
 
Susan is the Coordinator of Internships in Art Education for Tufts University in affiliation with The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she works as a liaison between our public school partners and our student teaching interns. She also works as a teacher liaison and research assistant with the Visible Thinking Project and Artful Thinking at Project Zero at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and is focused on how the arts can facilitate and inform teaching and learning.  Susan has presented her research at the Massachusetts Art Education Association Conference (2008), The Visible Thinking conferences in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2008, 2006), and the International Thinking Conference in Norrkoping, Sweden, (2007). She is also an adjunct faculty member at Boston College where she supervises student teachers.

Susan holds a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and an M.Ed. from Boston University.  She is a member of the New England Sculptors Association, is a member of the Board and Chair of the Education Committee. Her stone sculptures reflect her exploration of nature and her works reference plants, earth formations, shells and animals as well as the human form.  The natural world provides her with a limitless vocabulary of images.

Academic Faculty (Tufts)

Disciplines Taught:
Art Education