Biography

Dr. Jane Graziano is a professor of Art Education in the Department of Content Area Teacher Education, College of Education. She received a B.S. in Life Sciences from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and an Ed.D. in Art and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, and taught Visual Art, grades K-8 in New Jersey and New York schools.

Her research interests include transformative practices through contemporary arts, installation art as a change agent, and arts integration. She has been published in Art Education, Journal of the National Art Education Association, and is a contributing author for the textbooks Discovering Drawing, Beginning Sculpture, and Focus on Photography. She is an active presenter and lecturer at state and national Art Education conferences and a four-time recipient of the New Jersey Governor’s Award for Art Education in Higher Education (2022, 2016, 2011, and 2004) in recognition of exemplary service to the profession. In 2022 she received the National Art Education Association New Jersey Art Educator Award and the Art Educators of New Jersey’s Distinguished Achievement Award. Dr. Graziano served as President of the Art Educators of New Jersey from 2015-2018. The Art Educators of New Jersey is a non-profit 501(3c) that provides professional development for Visual Art teachers across the state of New Jersey.

Dr. Graziano teaches Introduction to Instruction and Assessment, Teaching and Learning B Art (Secondary Art Methods), Clinical Experience in Teaching and Learning B Art, Community Art Education for Secondary Grades, Clinical Practice I: Art Education, and Clinical Practice II: Elementary and Secondary Art. She is the advisor for the National Art Education Association Student Chapter, an SGA-chartered student club since the year 2000. She co-coordinates Saturday Morning Art (SmART), an on- and off-campus community arts program for children and adolescents in grades K-12.