User:Brianh

I am currently Head of Publishing & Design at EdLab, where I help create educational exhibitions (i.e., gallery installations and web-based exhibitions) for the Gottesman Libraries. I am also the creative director of After Ed, a recently-launched web channel highlighting developments in the education sector.

I have an Ed.D. in Art and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. I went to graduate school to take a closer look at how educational practices shape art practices (or, if you like, how educational institutions interact with the artworld). Before that, I was working in film production in Hollywood (only for a year – it turns out filmmaking is really boring most of the time). I worked on a few films as a second assistant director, but my bread and butter was really bad tv. I wrangled weapons in public parks and brought the crew coffees. I was highly competent at this as a freshly minted BA in Studio Art from Dartmouth College.

My main research interest is a particular kind of moral philosophy - virtue ethics - as a description of behavior in educational contexts. I am also, therefore, in perhaps not an unrelated way, interested in art (the arts, art making, art practices, and even the artworld) from an educational perspective. My dissertation, The Moral Nature of Artistic Genius is about the consequences of a hermeneutic conception of artistic genius as one kind of artistic influence.