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Directors プロジェクト責任者	Bio 経歴その他
（Dr. Masami Toku) California State University, Chico 芸術学部美術教育学科準教授 美術教育教員養成アドバイザー 美術教育プログラム主任教授	Masami Toku is an associate professor of art education at California State University, Chico. She is the general director of the project Power of Girls’ Comics. Her research interest is the cross-cultural study of children’s artistic and aesthetic developments in their pictorial world and how visual popular culture influences children’s visual literacy. She is working internationally, especially with Asian scholars in China, Japan, and Taiwan. Her recent collaborative research project is a cross-cultural study of the relationship between art and children’s comprehensive ability in Japan and the United States, supported by the Ministry of Education and Science in Japan. Cultural Diversity in Art and Education<www.csuchico.edu/~mtoku/webae> Visual Cultural Research in Art and Education <www.csuchico.edu/~mtoku/vc> • 略歴： • １９９９年〜現在：カリフォルニア州立大学チーコ校芸術学部美術教育学科勤務 • １９９８年：イリノイ大学にて美術教育博士号取得 • １９９４〜１９９８年：カソリックスクール （St. Matthew School: 小学１年〜中学２年）にて美術教師を勤める • １９９４年：同大学にて美術教育修士号取得 • １９９２年：シカゴ美術学院　 (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago) にて芸術学士号取得（専門は水彩画） • １９８９年：三菱化学研究所農芸化学部にて１０年勤務の後、渡米 ＊日米の子どもたちの描画（美意識）の発達論比較研究等で米国内外で論文発表、出版多数。（このテーマに関連して現在日本の漫画の特徴とその影響を研究） ＊また日米交流の展示会、ワークショップ企画開催経験多数。 • 関連サイト： • 美術教育サイト： • 視覚文化研究サイト： • 日米美術教育研究サイト：
Dr. Nancy Pauly University of New Mexico, Albuquerque	Picture and Bio Coming Soon
Curators Columbia College Chicago	Pictures and Bios Coming Soon
Dr. Michael Bitz, Ed.D. The Comic Book Project http://www.comicbookproject.org/ Teachers College Columbia University	Dr. Michael Bitz, Ed.D., is the Founding Director of The Comic Book Project (www.ComicBookProject.org). An internationally recognized innovator in education, Dr. Bitz has worked to establish creativity at the core of academic learning, and he has done so for some of the most vulnerable children in the United States and elsewhere. As an educational researcher and faculty member at Teachers College, Columbia University, Dr. Bitz was an investigator on the landmark study "Learning in and through the Arts," a longitudinal study published by the Arts-Education Partnership in 1999. In 2001, Dr. Bitz established The Comic Book Project, an art and literacy initiative that has impacted over 50,000 underserved youths. Dr. Bitz and The Comic Book Project have been featured by The Washington Post, National Public Radio, USA Today, and many other media. The results of his work have been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals including The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy and Art Education. In 2005, Dr. Bitz was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Early Career Award from Teachers College, Columbia University and was named a Research Fellow by the Robert Bowne Foundation. In 2006, he was awarded the Union Square Arts Award for Social Justice. The Comic Book Project http://www.comicbookproject.org/