Karen Keifer-Boyd is Assistant Professor of Art at Texas Tech University. She received a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute, and a M.S. in Cultural Services and Ph.D. in Art Education from the University of Oregon. She integrates new technologies in arts education for multivocal interpretations of art and enhances critical, creative, and visual thinking. She guides students to examine their own processes for interpreting images. Currently she is analyzing how the viewer's interpretation of an artwork's meaning and value relate to the viewer's perceptions of the gender of the artist. In press in Art & Academe is an article concerning how her students' virtual museums exposed hidden assumptions about art and society. She teaches visualization processes, nonlinear interfacing, and critical thinking. Her teaching approaches are published in the Journal of Art Education, 11/96 and in the forthcoming book, Art Education: Content and Practice in a Postmodern Era. Another article, Transformative Power, Controversy, and Critical Thinking, will be published in the anthology, Women Art Educators IV. Her work has been published in Women Art Educators III: An Edited Anthology, The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, Art Education, and Marilyn Zurmuehlen: Working Papers in Art Education. She has held a two-year appointment as editor of the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education and was editorial assistant for The Journal of Multicultural and Cross-cultural Research in Art Education. She created the video, "A Conversation with June King McFee." At TTU she teaches in the interdisciplinary doctoral program in Fine Arts, and in the B.F.A. in Art with Teacher Certification program. Courses include critical pedagogy, research methods, and approaches to art criticism.