Karen Treat Keifer-Boyd

Background

Keifer-Boyd, Karen Treat was born on December 7, 1955 in Cleveland. Daughter of Richard Lorenz and Lenore Ethelyn (Treat) Keifer.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Kansas City The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978; Master of Science in Art Education/Cultural Superior vena cava syndrome, U. Oregon, 1989; Doctor of Philosophy in Art Education, U. Oregon, 1993.

Career

Children's art education director, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, Oregon, 1983-1987; art instructor, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, Oregon, 1980-1987; children's art instructor, Willagillespie Elementary School, Eugene, Oregon, 1984-1989; art teacher, McKenzie Elementary School, Blue River, Oregon, 1989-1991; teaching artist, A.R.T.S. Unlimited, Southern Willamette Valley, Oregon, 1990-1992; arts program director, A.R.T.S. Unlimited, Southern Willamette Valley, Oregon, 1991-1993; graduate teaching fellow, U. Oregon, Eugene, 1988-1993; arts and culture program director, East West Arts and Culture Promotion Society and University Oregon, Eugene, since 1994; assistant professor, Texas Tech U., Lubbock, since 1994. Adjunct faculty U. Oregon, Eugene, since 1993. Multicultural/environmental art program developer rural schools in Astoria, Klamath Falls and Dalles, Oregon, 1991-1992.

Community-based art curriculum developer McKenzie School District, Blue River, 1989-1990. Advising committee Art Education Consortium, Eugene, 1986-1991.

Achievements

• Karen Treat Keifer-Boyd has been listed as a noteworthy Arts educator, arts program director by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Active Council for Human Rights in Latin American, 1988-1991. Art educator Center for Alternative Transportation, Eugene, 1993. Arts event program director Gay and Lesbian Pride Day, Eugene, 1994.

Public school liaison committee Texas TechU., since 1994. Member National Art Education Association (named Pacific Region Supervision and Administration Art Educator of Year 1994), Women's Caucus National Art Education Association, Caucus on Social Theory in Art Education, Association Institutions for Aesthetic Education (N.W. voting representative 1991-1993), South Plains Art Education Association, United States Society forEdn. through Art, Maude Kerns Art Center (board of trustees 1984-1985), Lane Regional Arts Council.

Connections

Married Ernest Clifford Boyd, August 7, 1976. Children: Ovid Pacific, Calder Alexander.

Father:

Richard Lorenz Keifer

Mother:

Lenore Ethelyn (Treat) Keifer

Spouse:

Ernest Clifford Boyd

child:

Ovid Pacific Keifer-Boyd

child:

Calder Alexander Keifer-Boyd