Jillian Hogan is a PhD student in developmental psychology in the Arts & Mind Lab at Boston College. She holds an MM in music education and a BM in clarinet performance from Boston Conservatory and has additional training in Montessori and Orff-Schulwerk approaches. In her research, she uses mixed methods to investigate what we learn through arts education and how those findings align with public perceptions. Her primary interest is the teaching and learning of habits of mind in visual art and music education, which is informed by teaching for six years in schools that specialize in gifted, inclusion, and autism spectrum disorder populations. She is an author of the book Studio Thinking from the Start: The K-8 Art Educator’s Handbook (2018) (www.jillhoganinboston.com).

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 as well as adults. She is the author of over one hundred articles and three books—Invented Worlds: The Psychology of the Arts (1982); The Point of Words: Children’s Understanding of Metaphor and Irony (1988); and Gifted Children: Myths and Realities (1996)—and coauthor of Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (2007) and Studio Thinking 2: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (2013). Soon to appear are Studio Thinking for Elementary Schools and How Art Really Works. She received the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Research by a Senior Scholar in Psychology and the Arts from APA Division 10 in 2000.