Mira Kallio-Tavin (Doctor or Arts) is Distinguished Professor of Art in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia. Dr. Kallio-Tavin focuses her research on critical artistic and arts-based research in questions of disability studies, decolonialism, immigration, non-human agency, and critical animal studies. Her artistic practice takes forms mostly through video and painting. She is currently co-coordinating a large experiment with international researcher/artist/educators on ‘composting’ Speculative Spaces for Artistic Methodologies(SSAM).

Dr. Kallio-Tavin serves as Vice President of the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) and is the Chair of the Art Education Research Institute (AERI). She is the Associate Editor-elect of the Studies in Art Education. She is the founder of the International Disability Studies, Arts and Education (iDSAE) network, and is the author and editor of six books and over 100 articles and book chapters.

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