Professor of Applied Visual Arts Glen Coutts has received the International Ziegfeld Award for his work on art education. Each year, USSEA honors one national and one international art educator, each of whom has demonstrated exemplary teaching, service, or research in the area of multicultural or cross-cultural art education with the Ziegfeld Art Education award.

– One of USSEA's core aims really resonates with me, it seeks 'to promote greater understanding and respect for learners from all backgrounds through research, art curricula, instruction, and practices that are inclusive and sensitive'. I believe that the work that some of the work that has been going on in parts of Europe, specifically in Scotland and Finland, where I spend most of my time, meets that aim, Glen Coutts notes.

Glen Coutts has studied at Glasgow School of Art (design) and, after working as a community artist in England, he trained as a secondary (high) school teacher of art and design. After spending around ten years in secondary schools, he then worked at the University of Strathclyde, training teachers and community artists.

He has been for many years an active member of the International Society of Education through Art. At the moment he is working in the University of Lapland as a professor of Applied Visual Arts.


Further information:

Professor Glen Coutts
glen.coutts (at) ulapland.fi

More information on the award can be found on the USSEA.


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