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Board of Directors
"As curator of a museum of education, I seek, in the spirit of John Dewey, to preserve, transmit, rectify, and expand our educational values and beliefs as we come to better understand the role of school in society. Aesthetic education offers numerous opportunities to ‘be with adventurous company’ and to build democratic communities as a method to help transform our larger society."
-Craig KridelCraig Kridel
Dr. Kridel has been a director of the foundation since 2003. He is the E. S. Gambrell Professor of Education and Curator of the Museum of Education at the University of South Carolina. His publications include Stories of the Eight-Year Study, Books of the Century, Writing Educational Biography, and Teachers and Mentors, and he has received the A.A.C.T.E. Outstanding Writing Award and the Educational Press Association of America Distinguished Achievement Award.
He currently serves as coordinator of Berlioz Historical Brass and as columnist for the ITEA (TUBA) Journal. He participated in the founding of the Historic Brass Festival, Historic Brass Society, and Early Music America has appeared on BBC and NPR radio to discuss the revival of early music. Craig has performed with Peter Schickele and the Dartington (England) Festival Orchestra and has presented at the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference and the International Double Reed Society Conference. He appeared on Le Monde du Serpent CD with Douglas Yeo of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and performed the solo “call to service” for Pope John Paul II’s American Ecumenical Service. Currently, he coordinates Biographical Imaginations, the Museum’s living-history program for elementary and middle schools, and Carolina Shout, a celebration of teachers.
Visit these links for more about Craig Kridel, the Museum of Education, and Berlioz Historical Brass.
Craig Kridel hosts satellite Sunday Salons in Columbia, South Carolina. For further information, please email craigkridel@maxinegreene.org