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Art Center Room 120
Warrensburg, MO 64093
Phone: 660.543.4481
Email: art@ucmo.edu

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Dr. Mick Luehrman

Chair, Deptment of Art, and Professor of Art - Art Education

Contact Information

Art Center, Room 120
660-543-4594
luehrman@ucmo.edu

Visit Dr. Mick Luehrman's
Faculty Gallery

Courses Taught

  • Art 3910 Art for Elementary Schools
  • Art 3915 Problems in Elementary Art Education
  • Art 4920 Methods of Teaching Art
  • Art 4930 Secondary Field Experience
  • EdCI 4495 Student Teaching Elementary (Supervision)
  • ICAP 4468 Student Teaching Secondary (Supervision)
  • Art 1110 Drawing I
  • ICAP 4221 Artists in Contemporary Society

Mick Luehrman, Associate Professor of Art

Dr. Mick Luehrman
Department Chair and
Professor of Art

Education

  • PhD, Art Education, University of Missouri-Columbia
  • ME, Art Education, University of Missouri-Columbia
  • BS,  Commercial Art, University of Central Missouri

Specialties

Art Education Research Topic Interests:

  • Aesthetics  
  • Attitudes toward art and art education (Principals)
  • Children's artistic development

Studio Art Area:  Fibers

  • Sculptural Forms from handmade cast paper
  • 3-D assemblage
  • Nontraditional basketry

Creative Activities

  • Del Mar College 40th Annual National Works on Paper and Small Sculpture Show, Corpus Christi, Texas, Juror, Linda Seckinger, Spring 2006
  • Fiber Focus 2005, Art Saint Louis, biennial 7-state regional juried show, a part of the "Innovations in Textiles 6" citywide collaboration of galleries and museums, Fall 2005
  • Fiber Directions 2005, Wichita Center for the Arts, nationally juried show, Spring 2005
  • Topeka Competition 27, Alice C. Sabitini Gallery, Topeka, KS, 12-state regional show, Winter 2005
  • ANA 33, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT, nationally juried show, Fall 2004
  • Paper In Particular, nationally juried show, three works accepted, Spring 2004
  • Recent Works by Mick Luehrman, one-person show, North Central Missouri College, Fall 2003
  • Fiber Directions 2003, Wichita Center for the Arts, nationally juried show, Wichita, KS, two works accepted, Spring 2003
  • Works by Mick Luehrman, one-person show, Culver Stockton College, Canton, MO, Fall 2002
  • 8th Biennial, national juried show, Southern Illinois University- Carbondale, IL, Spring 2002
  • Teacher As Artist, regional juried show, Southwest Missouri State University, 2002
  • Topeka Competition 24, Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka, KS. Juried show, 2002.

Professional Activities

  • Missouri Art Education Association: State Council Member, Past President, Advocacy Chair
  • Missouri Alliance for Arts Education: Board Member
  • UCM Teacher Education Council Chair

Outreach

  • Cast member and musical co-director for UCM Theatre Dept. production of "Grapes of Wrath," Fall 2003. Received a Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Award for Music Direction, Arrangement and Performance.

Publications

  • Work featured in 500 Baskets, juried by Jan Peters, Del Mano Gallery.  Scheduled for publication in Spring of 2006 by Lark Books, NY
  • Making Theories of Children's Artistic Development Meaningful for Pre-service Teachers, Art Education, Journal of the National Art Education Association, accepted for publication, scheduled to appear in the May, 2006 issue.
  • Work and artist statement included in quadrennial book publication of juried contemporary international fiber art work, Fiberarts Design Book 7,  (2004) Keiffer, Susan Mowery (Ed), Lark Books, NY
  • Developing a Partnership with the Principal, NAEA Advisory, Summer 2003, National Art Education Association, Reston, VA
  • Art Experiences and Attitude Toward Art Education: A Descriptive Study of Missouri Public School Principals, 2002, Studies in Art Education, 43, 3, 197-218.

Awards/Honors

  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Research Award, 2nd place in UCM faculty research symposium competition, Spring 2005.
  • Larry A. Kantner Missouri Art Education Association Research Award, Spring 2005
  • Best of Show, Teacher As Artist Exhibition juried regional (7 state) show, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, 2002