Rae Goodwin

Associate Dean of Research and Creative Activities

To email Rae in her Associate Dean of Research role please contact her at: cfa-adr@uky.edu

Rae Goodwin, Professor of Art Studio in the School of Art & Visual Studies (SAVS), serves as Associate Dean for Research/Creative Activity in the College of Fine Arts (CFA) at the University of Kentucky. In this role she empowers, supports, and celebrates faculty, staff, and students in research/creative activity practices and achievements. With this mindset she collaborates with CFA’s Director of Communications, highlighting great successes and with the Integrated Business Unit providing clarity in funding policy and procedure. She updates and manages eight funding programs, leads a grants workshop series, meets regularly with faculty and staff in search of support, and liaises with the Office of the Vice President for Research. With her leadership, faculty in the CFA now bring in substantive external funding for their research.

Additional leadership roles include Acting Associate Director and Acting Director of Graduate Studies in SAVS. Also for twelve years Goodwin served as Director of Foundations (the first-year program) in SAVS. While holding that position she served on two national boards, including President of Integrative Teaching International (ITI) and VP for Finance of FATE. More recently she served as Treasurer for Grace Exhibition Space, NYC.

Goodwin received awards from the Atlanta Public Schools, a Master Educator Award from Foundations in Art, Theory & Education (FATE), and UK’s Research Professorship. Goodwin’s art has been exhibited and performed widely at many national and international venues including: Queens Museum, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, McColl Center for Visual Art, Dimanche Rouge Paris, LIVESTOCK Dublin, grüntaler9, Satellite Art Show and the CAC in Cincinnati.