Karen Raney
Karen Raney is a lecturer, editor, painter and writer. Raney has BSc and RN from Duke University, USA, a DipAD Drawing and Painting from London Metropolitan, and a MA Visual Theories from UEL. Previously she worked as a nurse in the San Francisco County Jail, she was Research Fellow at Middlesex University, writer for the Whitechapel Gallery’s ‘Download’ project, Visual Arts Officer at Arts Council of England, and lecturer at Open University, City Literary Institute, Tate Gallery, RA schools, London Guildhall, and Institute of Education.
Since 2000 Karen Raney has been editor of Engage journal, of the international association for visual art and gallery education.
In addition to academic writing, Karen Raney writes short stories and is working on a novel.
Raney's interests are in the imagination, the interaction between theory and art practice, visual art education, and museum and gallery culture.
Research and Publications
Research interests:
Theory and contemporary art practice, imagination, visual art and education, museum and gallery culture.
2015 'Modernism, Craft and the Politics of Materials,' in A Companion to Modern Art, edited by Pam Meecham. Wiley & Sons.
2014 Keynote speaker, Curating Art History colloquium, University of Birmingham.
2013 ‘Double Agents: Research in the Service of Art’ – keynote address, Engaging Methodologies conference, University of Brighton.
2012 'Integrating Theory and Practice’, paper presented at UKCGE's 3rd conference on professional doctorates, European University, Florence.
Since 2000 Karen Raney has been editor of Engage journal, of the international association for visual art and gallery education.
In addition to academic writing, Karen Raney writes short stories and is working on a novel.
Raney's interests are in the imagination, the interaction between theory and art practice, visual art education, and museum and gallery culture.
Research and Publications
Research interests:
Theory and contemporary art practice, imagination, visual art and education, museum and gallery culture.
2015 'Modernism, Craft and the Politics of Materials,' in A Companion to Modern Art, edited by Pam Meecham. Wiley & Sons.
2014 Keynote speaker, Curating Art History colloquium, University of Birmingham.
2013 ‘Double Agents: Research in the Service of Art’ – keynote address, Engaging Methodologies conference, University of Brighton.
2012 'Integrating Theory and Practice’, paper presented at UKCGE's 3rd conference on professional doctorates, European University, Florence.
Art in Question By: Karen Raney, ----Art in Question explores the role of contemporary art within today's wider visual culture. This richly illustrated book brings together a series of specially commissioned interviews with leading, international artists, art historians, theorists and curators: Bill ViolaGriselda PollockRichard WentworthBarbara KrugerSadie PlantOkwui EnwezorMartin KempWJT MitchellHani RashidArt has always been argued over, never more than in our own times. Today, the parameters of art are being redefined by new ideas about what really constitutes art, by new technologies, by new cultural perceptions of race and gender, by new theories about the role of the artist and by a changing museum culture. copy right bloomsbury.com
Research archive
2011 ‘An Interview with David Dabydeen’ in Macedo, L (ed.) Pak’s Britannica. Kingston: University of West Indies Press, pp.184-197.
2007 'Goldfinger: Faisal Abdu'Allah' in Art of Negotiation, D. Butler and V. Reiss (eds.) Arts Council England, pp. 20-55.
2004 Speaker, panel member and group chair, The Treason of Images, Tate Modern, London.
2003 Art in Question,London and NY: Continuum Press. 270 pages.
2001 Speaker and panel member, Picturing Literacy, Tate Modern, London.
2000 ‘Visual Literacy and the Art Curriculum’, Journal of Art and Design Education, 8.1, Jan 2000.
1999 ‘Art Education and Talk: from modernist silence to postmodern chatter’, Sefton-Greene & Sinker (eds) Evaluating Creativity, Routledge, pp. 16-42.
1998 ‘Ambiguity in drawing’ - keynote paper, DRAW-UM conference, Loughborough University.
1997 ‘Art History into Visual Culture’, paper presented at Art Historians in Action conference, Art Historians Association & Tate Gallery, London.
1997 ‘Reflections on Painting’, paper presented at Arts, Media and Representation colloquium, Carleton University, Ottawa.
1997 "Visual Literacy": issues and debates, Middlesex University Press. 120 pages.
2011 ‘An Interview with David Dabydeen’ in Macedo, L (ed.) Pak’s Britannica. Kingston: University of West Indies Press, pp.184-197.
2007 'Goldfinger: Faisal Abdu'Allah' in Art of Negotiation, D. Butler and V. Reiss (eds.) Arts Council England, pp. 20-55.
2004 Speaker, panel member and group chair, The Treason of Images, Tate Modern, London.
2003 Art in Question,London and NY: Continuum Press. 270 pages.
2001 Speaker and panel member, Picturing Literacy, Tate Modern, London.
2000 ‘Visual Literacy and the Art Curriculum’, Journal of Art and Design Education, 8.1, Jan 2000.
1999 ‘Art Education and Talk: from modernist silence to postmodern chatter’, Sefton-Greene & Sinker (eds) Evaluating Creativity, Routledge, pp. 16-42.
1998 ‘Ambiguity in drawing’ - keynote paper, DRAW-UM conference, Loughborough University.
1997 ‘Art History into Visual Culture’, paper presented at Art Historians in Action conference, Art Historians Association & Tate Gallery, London.
1997 ‘Reflections on Painting’, paper presented at Arts, Media and Representation colloquium, Carleton University, Ottawa.
1997 "Visual Literacy": issues and debates, Middlesex University Press. 120 pages.
Additional scholarly activities
Editor, engage, the international journal of visual art and gallery education.
Published twice a year, the journal serves as a forum for discussion, a snapshot of current thinking on a theme, a repository of academic references and a source of practical ideas for professionals in the field.
Engage is the UK based advocacy and support organisation for gallery education. Engage is a membership organisation which involves itself in decision-making groups to influence policy in education and the arts. It offers research, resources, networking and professional development through conferences, seminars, events, and publications, one of which is engage journal.
Karen Raney commissions, edits and introduces 12 articles per issue on themes of interest to the visual art and museum and gallery community. Themes since 2000 have been: Drawing, Inclusion, Book Art, Globalisation, The Photographic, Art of Encounter, Imagination, Regeneration, Research, Diversity, Strategic Interpretation, Art and Climate Change, Young People and Agency, Disability and Access, Digital Doorways, Family Learning, Marketing and Gallery Education, Artists, young people and galleries, The New and Renewed Museum, Art and the Olympics, Arts and Healthcare, The Past in the Present, Citizenship and Belonging, Critical Craft. The issue in press spring 2014 is Experiencing Gallery Architecture.
Editor, engage, the international journal of visual art and gallery education.
Published twice a year, the journal serves as a forum for discussion, a snapshot of current thinking on a theme, a repository of academic references and a source of practical ideas for professionals in the field.
Engage is the UK based advocacy and support organisation for gallery education. Engage is a membership organisation which involves itself in decision-making groups to influence policy in education and the arts. It offers research, resources, networking and professional development through conferences, seminars, events, and publications, one of which is engage journal.
Karen Raney commissions, edits and introduces 12 articles per issue on themes of interest to the visual art and museum and gallery community. Themes since 2000 have been: Drawing, Inclusion, Book Art, Globalisation, The Photographic, Art of Encounter, Imagination, Regeneration, Research, Diversity, Strategic Interpretation, Art and Climate Change, Young People and Agency, Disability and Access, Digital Doorways, Family Learning, Marketing and Gallery Education, Artists, young people and galleries, The New and Renewed Museum, Art and the Olympics, Arts and Healthcare, The Past in the Present, Citizenship and Belonging, Critical Craft. The issue in press spring 2014 is Experiencing Gallery Architecture.