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Gerda van de Windt

I have a life time of experience as a painter and sculptor and have taught art in my home studio as well as the Indian Friendship Centre in Mission, British Columbia, Canada.  My art work is included in collections in Canada, the United States and in Europe. I studied art at Kwantlen College in Surrey earning an Associate degree in Fine Art in 1986 and studied at Emily Carr College of Art in Vancouver in 1987.  In 2001 I earned a B.A. in Visual Arts and Psychology at the University of Fraser Valley and a M.A. in Arts Education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver in 2004.  Ph.D. comps exams were passed in the summer of 2005 and I am presently working on Ph.D. dissertation in Arts Education.  I am interested in the philosophies of Longinus, Burke, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Dufrenne, Lyotard, Derrida and many others who have written about the arts and in  particular painting.  I would like to add to the philosophical discourse from the perspective of a painter, using my own work as a silent language to underscore the issues raised in relation to arts education.