Jason Swift
Contact info
- 678-839-6521
- jswift@westga.edu
- Humanities Building - Room 219
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Office Hours
By appointment
Biography
Jason Swift earned his BFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1994, his MFA from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1997 and his EdM in 2003 and EdD in 2009 from Teachers College, Columbia University. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of West Georgia where he is the Art Education Director coordinating the undergraduate and initial certification programmes in art education. In his studio and research practice, he investigates the influence of experiences upon the artist’s visual vocabulary, skateboarding, punk rock, transgressive teaching and learning and his experiences with his Grandfather.
Education / Degrees
- B.F.A., Sculpture and Art Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1994
- M.F.A., Sculpture, Rinehart School of Sculpture at Maryland Institute, College of Art, 1997
- M.Ed., Art and Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2003
- Ed.D., Art and Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2009