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Keynote Speaker
Ellen Winner, PhD
Ellen
Winner, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at Boston College and Senior Research
Associate for Harvard University’s Project Zero, which seeks to understand
and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts. She has authored
more than 130 scholarly articles and four books, including Studio Thinking:
The real benefits of visual arts education; Invented worlds: The psychology
of the arts; and Gifted Children: Myths and Realities, which won
the Alpha Sigma Nu National Jesuit Book Award in Science in 1996 and has been
translated into eight languages.
In 2000, Dr. Winner was awarded the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Research by a Senior Scholar from Division 10 (Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts) of the American Psychological Association. She currently serves on the editorial board of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, the journal produced by Division 10.
Dr. Winner has been a guest on many national radio programs, discussing arts education and child prodigies, and was recently interviewed for a Sony Pictures documentary on a child prodigy entitled My Kid Could Paint That.
The keynote address for the conference is entitled “Gifted Children:
Myths and Realities.”
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