Andrew Jay Svedlow Ph.D.
Dean, College of Performing and Visual Arts
Professor of Visual Arts
Guggenheim 204
970.351.2515
andrew.svedlow@unco.edu

Dean of the College of Performing and Visual Arts at the University of Northern Colorado and Professor of Art and Design, Dr. Svedlow was previously the Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Winthrop University, President of the New Hampshire Institute of Art, and Assistant Director of the Museum of the City of New York.  The Dean received his Ph.D. in art education from the Pennsylvania State University and has taught art education, museum education, art history, arts administration, aesthetics, and studio art at Northern Colorado, Winthrop University, Penn State, Bank Street College of Education, Parsons School of Design, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and Lowell, University of Kansas, New York University, University of Southern Mississippi, the New Hampshire Institute of Art, and the University of New Hampshire.  Dean Svedlow was a 1991 International Council of Museums/USIA exchange partner and reported on art and education in Australia, he was a 1994 Research Fellow in Museum Practices with the Smithsonian Institution, and in 1998 he participated in a cultural exchange between business and civic leaders in Niigata, Japan.  In 1996, Dean Svedlow was presented the Distinguished Service to the Profession of Art Education Award by the New Hampshire Art Educators’ Association and in 1998 Dr. Svedlow completed the MLE Program in the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Institute for Higher Education and was a member of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ Millennium Leadership Initiative 2002.  He has directed and administered museum and education programs for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Design, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Mulvane Art Museum at Washburn University. He was a 2007 Fulbright Scholar for the Japan-US International Education program.  Dr. Svedlow has been chosen as one of twenty scholars from across the globe to speak at the 3^rd International Symposium on arts and cultural management in Helsinki, Finland in April 2009.

Dean Svedlow has published on art education, museum education, and arts administration.  His publications include articles on lifelong learning, reveries on aesthetics, and the history of art museums in America.  His art criticism has appeared in such journals as American Artist, the New Art Examiner, and the Kansas Quarterly, which honored him with an award for his writing. He is currently working on a chapter on Japanese Aesthetics for the forthcoming book, Teaching Asian Art.  A painter and printmaker, Dean Svedlow’s artworks have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Colorado, North and South Carolina, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Kansas and Missouri.  His recent exhibition of new works titled Tea opened in February 2008 at the Tointon Gallery in Greeley, CO.  In December 2008 he was an artist in residence at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada.

Dean Svedlow is a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum and is a graduate of the 1997 Leadership New Hampshire program and a 1994 graduate of Leadership Manchester, NH and was appointed by the Governor of New Hampshire as Chairman of the Commission of the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium. The Dean participated in the 2007 Aspen Institute Executive Seminar. Dr. Svedlow was one of the founding college presidents of the New Hampshire Campus Compact and he is an active supporter of service learning in higher education.  In 1997 he was awarded the Good Samaritan of the Year Award from the New Hampshire Pastoral Counseling Services and was selected, in 1998, by Change Magazine as one of the country’s Top Forty Young Leaders in Higher Education.  Dean Svedlow has served as a grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Program, and numerous regional and state granting agencies.  He currently serves as a Commissioner and Vice-Chair for the Loveland Visual Arts Commission.

Dr. Svedlow is married to Deborah Croarkin-Svedlow and has five children, Aaron, David, Hannah, Zoe, and Summer and grandson, Torin, as well as granddaughter Helen.