Affiliate faculty member Frances Anderson, EdD, has earned her third Fulbright Senior Specialist Award since joining the School of Education, Health, and Human Performance in 2005. Anderson leaves for Pakistan on April 22, where she will spend three weeks teaching at Karakorum International University. Anderson will lead a special seminar whose focus is preserving the textile folk art tribal culture in the mountainous area of Gilgit.
In 2005, Anderson received her first Fulbright at the College of Charleston. She traveled to Taipei to teach at the Taipei Municipal University of Education and in 2008 she was a Fulbright Senior Specialist at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. While in Thailand she participated in a special Art For All camp whose aim is to preserve the Hill tribe culture in northern Thailand. She has returned to Thailand 2 times since then, assisting with a research project documenting the effectiveness of many of the Art for All programs for persons with disabilities.
Anderson is a Board Certified, Registered Art Therapist and distinguished professor of art emeritae at Illinois State University. In 2002, she was the first art therapist in the US to become a Fulbright Senior Scholar. She initiated the first art therapy program at the national university for the arts in Buenos Aires. She also studied cultural differences in children’s drawings. Recognized for her seminal efforts to use art with physically and mentally handicapped children she is an Honorary Life Member (HLM) of the American Art Therapy Association. She has written over 60 articles, and 2 seminal books on art with disabled children.
