Storytime: Louisa Penfold

Louisa Penfold, PhD, is a professor and the Chair of Arts and Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has curated children's play spaces at internationally renowned art museums, including Tate Modern, the Serpentine, and MoMA, and has also served as an arts and culture advisor to the United Nations. Louisa is the Director of Project Zero's Art/Play, a collaborative study examining the integration of modern and contemporary arts into public school curricula in the United States. The National Endowment for the Arts, the Smithsonian, and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust have backed her work on children's art education, and publications including MIT's Journal of Design & Science, the Journal of Childhood Studies, The Australian, and Forbes have featured it. Louisa founded Art Play Children Learning, a popular blog for parents that features tips, activity ideas, and resources for cultivating children's creativity through modern and contemporary art. Every Child is an Artist is her first book.