Connections: Teaching, Art, Life

Purnima Ruanglertbutr is an independent curator, writer, educator, artist, arts manager and researcher into art and museum education. In particular, her research focuses on her interests in teacher-artist issues, museum education pedagogy, inclusive art education, contemporary curatorial models, and the relationship between visual art and literacy. She was co-researcher and lecturer within Melbourne Graduate School of Education’s Department of Artistic and Creative Education, where she administered the ‘Teacher as Artmaker Project’ and lectured the Master of Education subject ‘Teaching and Artistic Practice’. Purnima holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Teaching from that same university. She also completed a Master of Art Administration from the University of New South Wales, Australia.