Exploring the Owatonna art education experiment
In 1931, Melvin Haggerty, Dean of Education at the University of Minnesota, addressed an audience of art educators and artists. He was uncomfortable and admitted it to the crowd. He knew very little about art education, but he was inquisitive of its possibilities and purposes. Two years later, under his leadership, a community-wide, 5 year experiment took place in the very ordinary town of Owatonna, Minnesota.
