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Faculty & Staff

Donna Murray-Tiedge

Lecturer
Graphic Design

NFAC 176
715-346-2525

Donna.Murray-Tiedge@uwsp.edu

 

 

Education

  • B.F.A.: University of Illinois
  • M.F.A.: University of Illinois
  • Ph. D.: University of Illinois

About

Dr. Donna Murray-Tiedge is a designer-artist-scholar, creative problem resolver, and a lecturer in Graphic Design. After twenty-five years of working for industry and running her own entrepreneurial business, she returned to academia to gain the credentials to teach. She has a BFA in Industrial Design, an MFA in Art and Design, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in Aesthetic Education. Her multifaceted training in art, design, and education coupled with a specialization in qualitative research methodology facilitates the overlap of classic traditions of research and cutting-edge approaches. This unique combination unites rigor, depth, trustworthiness, innovation, and breadth, as she tailors her work to incorporate these complexities. Her research interests cultivate the intersections of design, education, and art & design education and push on the synergistic power of different intellectual points of view in the generation of ideas and the development of knowledge. She has presented aspects of her research nationally and internationally. She has taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. She served as chair-elect for the National Art Association (NAEA) Design Issues Group and serves on the Advisory Board for the Design-Ed Coalition.

Recent Publications

  • Bresler, L., Murray-Tiedge, D. (2017). The dance of mentorship and intellectual partnership. Visual Inquiry: Learning and Teaching Art 5(3), 457-459.
  • Murray-Tiedge, D. (2015). Does design belong in visual arts education? In S. Schonmann (Ed.), International Yearbook for Research in Arts Education 3/2015: The Wisdom of the Many - Key Issues in Arts Education (pp. 196-202), Münster: Waxmann.
  • Sanko, A. & Murray-Tiedge, D. (2015). The design connections partnership. School Arts, 115(1), 40.

Recent Presentations

  • "Crafting Compelling Design Challenges and Meaningful Assessments" To be presented with Doris Wells-Papanek at the National Art Education Associationa Annual Convention, Seatle, WA. March 2018.
  • "Transference between design thinking and writing: Positive or negative?" Presented at the National Art Education Association Annual Convention, New York, NY. March 2017.
  • "Modelling 'un-leadership' using integrated interdisciplinarity: Challenges and opportunities." Presented to interdisciplinary women serving in leadership roles within the arts and industry, at Norsk Taiji Senter, Oslo, Norway. September 2016. 
  • "Creative resonance: The influence of sharing contexts." Discussed at the 'Cloister Symposium: Combining art, community, wholeness, and spirit', Il Convneto, Trevi, Italy. September 2016. 
  • "Interdisciplinary/intercultural pursuits: A recipe to cultivate hybridity." Presented with K. Andrews and K. Matsunobu at the 2nd International Conference on 'Building Interdisciplinary Bridges Across Cultures' (BIBAC 2016), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. August 2016. 
  • "Using design thinking as a bridge towards qualitative understanding." Part of a panel, "Mentoring as interactive pathway: The proliferation of ideas across disciplinary cultures," with L. Bresler, K. Andrews, K. Matsunobu, T. Costantino, at the 2nd International Conference on 'Building Interdisciplinary Bridges Across Cultures' (BIBAC 2016), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. August 2016. 
  • "Interlacing traditions: Visual, curricular, qualitative." Presented at the Twelfth Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2016), Champaign, IL. May 2016.
  • "Methodological lineage in arts based inquiry." Presented with Liora Bresler at the National Art Education Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL. March 2016.
  • "Understanding pedagogy through the material world: Lessons from a pre-service Saturday art school." Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.  April 2015.
  • "Design Issues Group experiential hands-on workshop." Presented with Doris Wells-Papanek and Amber Walsh at the National Art Education Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA. March 2015.
  • "Designing educational spaces by connecting nine pedagogical aspects of engagement." Poster session presented at Design-Ed Future 2014, 2nd Annual Design Education Conference, Philadelphia, PA. June 2014.
  • "Using spatial domains to prompt pedagogical engagement inside a Saturday art school classroom." Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA. April 2014.
  • "Sp/pl/acemaking: The cultivation of spaces and places inside a Saturday art school classroom." Presented at the National Art Education Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA. March 2014.
  • "A hybrid art educator's approach to data analysis: Juxtaposing physical and digital workspaces." Presented at the National Art Education Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA. March 2014.