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Alice Wexler
Alice Wexler received an Ed.D. in arts and humanities from Columbia University, Teachers College. She was a professor of art education at SUNY New Paltz from 1999 to 2015 and continues to teach as an invited lecturer. As a researcher working in the fields of disability studies, outsider and Indigenous art, she has published numerous articles in art education journals such as Studies in Art Education, the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education and the International Journal of Education Through Art. The monograph Art and Disability: The Social and Political Struggles Facing Education (2009) and an anthology, Art Education beyond the Classroom: Pondering the Outsider and Other Sites of Learning (2012) were published by Palgrave Macmillan. The monograph Autism in a Decentered World (2016) was published by Routledge. She is co-editor of Bridging Communities through Socially Engaged Art (2019) and co-editor of Contemporary Art and Disability Studies (2020), published by Routledge. A forthcoming monograph, Art and Resistance: Stories from the Stolen Generations of Western Australia is under review with University of Nebraska Press. She served as North American World Councilor to InSEA and president of USSEA. She became a distinguished fellow and received the National Ziegfeld Award at NAEA in 2023.
Contact: SUNY New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY 12561, USA.