Phyllis Araneo
BA Painting/Design (cum laude) Rowan, MCA Sunshine Coast
Position: Associate Lecturer, Research Fellow
Office: J5.07
Tel: +61 7 5459 4830
Fax: +61 7 5456 5004
Email: paraneo@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Environment, Technology and Sustainability
- Visual Literacy: Design Principles and Practice
Research areas
- evaluation of delivery and learning outcomes of COR111
- visual information interpretation and effectiveness
- interdisciplinarity
Profile
Phyllis Araneo comes to academia with a background based in the visual arts. Her career includes art directing and graphic arts management in the New York Metropolitan area. She also painted portraits for the New York and Sydney music industry for two decades. Her floral paintings have been reproduced on prints, cards and homewares which have been distributed worldwide.
Through a Master of Creative Arts degree, Phyllis explored the resurgence in contemporary culture of an iconic image representative of humanity’s relationship with the natural environment. The study analysed meanings and messages conveyed as well as investigated the influence visual information may have to transform thought and invoke action within societies.
Currently Phyllis’ research is focused on evaluation and optimisation of learning outcomes in the core course entitled Environment, Technology and Sustainability. The course is delivered to a multi-disciplined, mostly first year student cohort here at the University of the Sunshine Coast.
Publications
Many of Phyllis Araneo's publications are available on the Coast Research Database.
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