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Last updated on Monday, September 10, 2018
(INDIANAPOLIS) - The Indiana Arts Commission (IAC) announced today that two recipients of the 2018 Governor’s Arts Awards will be honored for their commitment to arts education.
Dr. F. Robert Sabol is recognized among the most talented, skillful, and knowledgeable art educators in the nation. He began his career as a K-6 art teacher in his hometown of Crawfordsville, Indiana. Following doctoral studies at Indiana University, Dr. Sabol became interested in deeper research into arts education assessment involving large group studies.
His 2010 study, No Child Left Behind: A Study of its Impact on Art Education, brought national attention and policy ramifications related to the issue of high stakes testing and art education. He was invited to address members of Congress, appeared in several television interviews, and was cited widely in many publications both inside and outside the field of art education.
From 2011 to 2013, Dr. Sabol served as President of the National Art Education Association (NAEA), the leading professional organization for arts educators in the U.S. He played a pivotal role in establishing the National Visual Arts Standards, and initiated and served as a delegation and trip leader on educational visits with arts educators in China, Cuba, Finland, India, and Myanmar.
"Dr. Sabol's career in arts education reflects Midwestern values of caring, creativity, and taking initiative to positively influence the direction of arts education in our state and beyond," said IAC Executive Director Lewis C. Ricci.
Since 1941, the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University has served as the center of arts education for south central Indiana. The museum's encyclopedic collection contains more 45,000 objects, with representative works of art from across the world and across time.
The building itself is also a work of art, designed by world-renowned architect I.M. Pei, who designed the pyramid entrance at the Louvre in Paris and Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The strength of the Eskenazi Museum of Art's collection, paired with the building and staff, results in its recognition as one of the nation's greatest university art museums, competing with museums at Yale and Harvard. Central to the mission of the museum is the use of its collection as an educational resource for students of all ages.
During the past 30 years, the museum's education department has grown into a robust program that serves as a model for other university art museums. In 2016, the museum gave tours to more than 12,000 Indiana University students, working with over 90 departments at IU. More importantly, 4,500 K-12 students tour the museum each year. Museum tours often provide many of these students their first glimpse of a world-class university campus as well. Admission and all programming and tours are free and open to the public, making it Indiana's largest free art museum.
"The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University has influenced the lives and creative curiosity of countless students of all ages," Director Ricci said. "Indiana has been blessed with individuals and organizations dedicated to making arts education accessible to everyone."
Dr. Sabol and the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art are among five recipients of the 2018 Governor's Arts Awards which will be held October 19, 2018 at Sweetwater Sound, Inc., Fort Wayne, Indiana.
The Indiana Arts Commission is dedicated to the vision of the arts everywhere, every day, for everyone in Indiana.
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