Laura Hill Chapman

Laura Hill Chapman (April 24, 1935 – August 17, 2021) was an American art educator. She has written several books and given numerous speeches showing how to assess work in an art classroom. She taught art in Florida Public Schools and held faculty posts at Indiana University, University of Illinois, Ohio State University, and the University of Cincinnati. She wrote more than three-dozen award-winning books on art education.

Education Chapman obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Florida State University in 1957. She subsequently studied at New York University, obtaining a Master of Arts degree in 1960. In 1966 she achieved her Doctorate of Philosophy at Ohio State University.

Career Chapman taught in schools around Dade County, Florida near Miami, Florida from 1957 to 1959, and public schools in Cincinnati from 1970 to 1971. She was an Instructor of Art Education at Indiana University Bloomington from 1957 to 1959 and Ohio State University from 1962 to 1964. Chapman was an assistant professor in art education at Ohio State from 1966 to 1970 and University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana from 1964 to 1966. She was an associate professor in art education at University of Cincinnati from 1971 to 1973, and a professor of art education from 1973 to 1978.

Chapman has been a consultant, writer in art education, and private practice in Cincinnati since 1978. She was a consultant in national instructional television in Bloomington, Indiana, from 1966 to 1968 and 1972 to 1979. She was a part of the Ohio State Department of Education in Columbus from 1969 to 1975. She was a part of the National Education Association in Washington from 1986 to 1987. From 1982 to 1987 she was a part of the Jean Paul Getty Trust Programs on education in art in Los Angeles. In 2017 she was a keynote speaker at the National Art Education Association Convention in New York, basing her talk on the state of art education in the United States.

Research Chapman wrote several art education books, most regard how to implement art correctly into your own classroom. She published thoughts on the state of art education and what needs to change for the future.

Publications Approaches to Art in Education (1978) Instant Art, Instant Culture: The Unspoken Policy for American Schools (1982) A World of Images (a Discover Art Book) Adventures in Art textbook series Art: Images and Ideas Status of Elementary Art Education: 1997-2004 published in Studies in Art Education No Child Left Behind in Art? published in Arts Education Policy Review