 | Steve McGuire is a Professor of Art Education at the University of Iowa, where he has taught since 1990. He is Program Coordinator for Art Education and President of Seminar for Research in Art Education, The National Art Education Association. Steve is a contemporary traditional storyteller and has performed across the United States and in Mexico and Canada. In 2004 he completed the DVD "On the American Discovery Trail: Iowa Route," a portrait of landscape and story. This project, funded by The National Endowment for The Arts and Iowa Arts Council, involves storytelling and visual images of situated documentation of Iowa communities on the 504 miles of American Discovery Trail. In 2005 Steve completed the web/DVD project, "Composing By-cycle Eminent Icelandic Saga and Tremendous Earth", working from over 700 still images and twenty hours of video. Steve traveled Iceland by cycle, completing 1400 miles. Along the route of the "ring road" and routes off the ring road into the North Fjords, West Fjords, and Snæfellsnes Peninsula, individuals shared with him a photographic moment seated on the sculpture "By-cycle". Like the stories he tells, the DVD is a story within a story within a story. A purpose of the DVD is to produce a work that documents being a contemporary traditional storyteller, and, to do this with an eye toward contributing to the establishment of creative academic inquiry into storytelling, much as he has tried to do with the interdisciplinary course "What is Storytelling For ?" Recent articles include, "Completing Images That Are Demanding" and "Narrative Accounts of Experience, Context, Meaning and Purpose." Steve is the recipient of a 1997 Collegiate Teaching Award, the 2000 Iowa Arts Council, Arts Builds Community Education Award and the 2003 University of Iowa Michael J Brody Award for Faculty Excellence in Service.
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