​Clark, G.
Dr. Gilbert A. Clark is a professor of art education and Gifted/Talented Education at Indiana University and is the director of ERIC:ART, The adjunct clearinghouse for art education. He investigates art curriculum theory and development, child development in art, test development and the assessment of learning and programs in the art and gifted education.

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Zimmerman, E.​

Dr. Zimmerman is Professor and current Coordinator of Gifted and Talented
Programs at Indiana University, School of Education. In her research, Zimmerman focuses in art talent development, art teacher education, feminist art education, leadership and mentoring, international and global art education, and curriculum and policy issues.



​Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly​
Hungarian, 1934. PH.D.,1965 from the University of Chicago. Now at Claremont Graduate University, he is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College. He is noted for his work in the study of happiness and creativity, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow and for his years of research and writing on the topic.
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Feldman, D. H.

David Henry Feldman Professor, Eliot-Pearson Dept. of Child Development. Ph.D., Stanford University M.A., Stanford University Ed.M., Harvard University A.B., University of Rochester. His expertise is in Cognitive Development; Developmental Theory; Creativity Intellectual development; developmental transitions; expertise; extreme giftedness and creativity; educational and developmental theory.





Gallagher, J. J.

James J. Gallagher is a senior investigator at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has worked in the field of education of exceptional children for over 40 years. Dr. Gallagher has served as the president of the World Council for Gifted and Talented, president of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), and is past president of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC). In addition, he is coauthor of a leading textbook, Educating Exceptional Children, with Samuel Kirk and Nick Anastasiow, and coauthor with his daughter, Dr. Shelagh Gallagher, of the book Teaching the Gifted Child.




Lowenfeld, V.
Austrian, 1903 -1960. He created the Stages of Artistic Development and Evidence of aesthetic in social, physical, intellectual, and emotional growth and how this is reflected in the art of children. Lowenfeld’s purpose of art education was to develop creativity so that it could transfer to other subjects and spheres of human activity (Efland, 1990).

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Winner E.
Ellen Winner is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Boston College, and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. She directs the Arts and Mind Lab, which focuses on cognition in the arts in typical and gifted children. She is the author of over 100 articles and four books.