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Seymour Simmons III
Seymour Simmons III, Ed.D., is a Professor of Fine Arts emeritus at Winthrop University, South Carolina, USA, where he taught art education and drawing. Previously, he taught at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and did research on the arts and cognition at Harvard Project Zero. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking from Colorado State University, and M. Ed. and Ed.D. degrees from Harvard, where his concentration was philosophy of education. His artwork focuses on the figure and landscape in drawing and watercolor. His research addresses drawing instruction past and present in relation to semiotics, creativity, Multiple Intelligence theory, and holistic development. These topics were brought together in The Value of Drawing Instruction in the Visual Arts and Across Curricula: Historical and Philosophical Arguments for Drawing in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2021). Simmons also co-authored with Marc S.A. Winer Drawing: The Creative Process (Simon and Schuster, 1977).
