Louisa Penfold

About the Author

Louisa Penfold, PhD is a professor and the Chair of Arts and Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has worked on the curation of children’s play spaces at internationally renowned art museums including Tate Modern, the Serpentine, and MoMA; as well as acting as an arts and culture advisor to the United Nations. Louisa is the Director of Project Zero’s Art/Play, a collaborative study looking at the integration of modern and contemporary arts into public school curriculum in the United States. Her work on children’s art education has been backed by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Smithsonian, and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, and featured in publications including MIT’s Journal of Design & Science, the Journal of Childhood Studies, The Australian, and Forbes. Louisa is the founder of 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.