Melody K. Milbrandt is an associate professor and coordinator of art education at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She taught art in public schools (K-12) for eighteen years before moving to higher education in 1996. Throughout her teaching career she has been active in state and national art education association, providing approximately, fifty workshops and presentations at professional meetings. These presentations have addressed her long-standing interests in creativity, cognitive abilities, and social issues in the art classroom. Her dissertation, An Authentic Instructional Model for Fifth Grade Art using Postmodern Content, was awarded a J. Paul Getty Fellowship in 1995. Since then she has written a number of articles, reviews, and book chapters on a variety of topics related to contemporary issues in art education. Her current teaching and research interests include the role of art criticism and aesthetics in a multicultural setting. Dr. Milbrandt is a past president of the Kansas Art Education Association and was honored as Elementary Art Educator of the Year in Both Kansas and Georgia. She is active in the Georgia Art Education Association and received the Southeastern Region Higher Education Award for 2004. She and her husband, Dr. Lanny Milbrandt, have four adult children and five grandchildren. Her studio interest is mixed-media painting.

Part 1: Conceptual Foundations and Structure for Art for Life

Chapter 1: Art for Life

Chapter 2: Authentic Instruction: The Theoretical Foundation for Art for Life

Part 2: Teaching and Learning Strategies for Art for Life

Chapter 3: Art Education and Visual Culture

Chapter 4: Individual Expression and Creativity

Chapter 5: Aesthetics

Chapter 6: Art Criticism

Chapter 7: Art History

Chapter 8: Making Art

Chapter 9: New Technologies and Art Education

Part 3: Models for Teaching and Learning Art for Life: Introduction to Part Three

Chapter 10: What Drives You? Research Notebooks and a Sense of Self

Chapter 11: A Sense of Community: Krzysztof Wodiczko and the Social Responsibility of Art

Chapter 12: A Sense of Place and of Community: Sea Full of Clouds-Nancy Merrill, Ciel Bergman, and Ecological Consciousness

Chapter 13: A Sense of Self, of Place, and of Community-Fred Wilson's Installation Art and Reconstruction of the Historical Narrative

Chapter 14: A Sense of Self, of Place, and of Community-Exploring Issues of Identity through the Metalwork of Charnelle Holloway

Chapter 15: A Sense of Self, of Place, and of Community-Art for Peace

Chapter 16: Art Education for Life

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