Robert Quinn
art education
PhD, University of Georgia
quinnr@ecu.edu
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Robert D. Quinn, Ph.D., was born and raised in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. His father provided him with some of his first art lessons. He seriously pursued art first at Young Harris College, going on to complete his undergraduate degree in art education at the University of Georgia. He taught middle and high school art classes at The Montgomery Academy in Alabama, during which time he completed his M.Ed. in art education at Auburn University at Montgomery. During the time that he later completed his Ph.D. in art education, also at the University of Georgia, he was introduced to teaching and learning online as an instructor of record for a large art appreciation course, fueling his research interests in online teaching and learning in art.
Additionally, his research interests include interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning, uses of computer technology for teaching, learning, and teacher education, service-learning and community-engaged scholarship, and arts-based educational research.
He currently serves as Research and Innovation Associate for the Rural Education Institute while holding a position as Professor of Art Education at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He has been a youth soccer coach and is an active musician. He is married to a teacher and they live with their two teenaged children and a rescue dog in eastern North Carolina.
When he’s not working in his position at East Carolina University, he plays music and makes art. He has had the opportunity to play in bands and perform as a solo artist at clubs, wineries, breweries, restaurants, churches, and coffeehouses around the Southeast, including stops in Columbia, South Carolina, Montgomery, Alabama, Jonesboro, Arkansas, and Greenville, North Carolina. He has shown his art in venues everywhere he has lived and participates in invited and juried exhibitions.
As a child, Robbie was encouraged by his parents to pursue music through piano lessons, clandestine strums on his sister’s guitar, and by the gift of a drum set when he was in 7th grade. His middle and high school musical experiences saw him playing in bands with his friends, enjoying the occasional opportunity to play in a club, at church, or at the school talent show.
He bought his first guitar in 1994 and took his first official guitar lesson while studying art at Young Harris College. He completed his degree in art education at the University of Georgia, and thrived musically in the creative hotbed that is Athens, Georgia.
Robbie’s work is eclectic, reflecting his varied interests in storytelling tradition, genres, and songwriting and his art is an exploration in multiple media. He likes to make work that tell of his journeys in his faith and with his family, while revealing the joys and difficulties that lie along the paths of each. His popular educational music project, ArtSongs, combines his love of art, education, and music, and he often has the opportunity to play ArtSongs to the delight of children of all ages. He enjoys, most of all, using his music to lead worship at his church.
Courses taught:
ART 1910: Art Appreciation, ART 2870: Computers in Art Education, ART 3851: Art in the Elementary School, ART 3860: Classroom Participation in Art, ART 6898: Research in Art Education
