Dr. Anne-Marie Émond has training in both art education and museology as well as extensive work experience in the educational service of the National Gallery of Canada where she was an art educator for ten years. Dr. Émond completed her doctoral studies on the phenomenon of cognitive consonance and dissonance expressed by frequent museum visitors (more than five visits per year to a museum) as the latter interacted with traditional and contemporary works of art. She became a member of the Research group on museum education and adults at the Université de Montréal upon enrolling for her doctoral studies and continued her membership when she began teaching at the University of Sherbrooke. Dr. Émond’s subsequent engagement by the Université de Montréal in 2004 enabled her significantly to increase her participation in the activities of this group.
Dr. Émond’s research focuses on adult responses to contemporary art in a museum setting, and investigation into degrees of consonance and dissonance that viewers report. A key contribution of Dr. Émond is her extensive experience of working in a museum setting, and her focus on what it is that subjects find inviting or alienating.
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