Jack Jordan is a professor in the School of Art, and specializes in the studio education of beginning students in a variety of art disciplines. His career has not always been in Art, however; he recently relocated from Architecture (one of those mid-life crisis, career change events, with lots of help from friends), where he taught similar studios for neophyte architects and interior designers. Jack chooses to teach at the Foundations level for a variety of reasons. Chief among them is the fact that the work he asks his students to undertake touches on issues that are important in his own work, so that one informs the other. Secondarily, but no less important, there is the opportunity to work with fresh minds, and the daily delight in watching young people grow and mature as artists.
Jack's academic history includes a B.Arch from the University of Texas at Austin in 1970 and a M.Arch from Yale University in 1974. Since then he has taught at three universities: two tours at OU, the most recent beginning in 1990, a decade at the University of Texas at Austin, and three years at Auburn. He has received awards for teaching excellence at each of these institutions, and was awarded a Regents'sAward for Superior Teaching at the University of Oklahoma in 1977. He is the author of several papers on design education pedagogy, and was co-editor and author of Foundations in Architecture (with Professor Owen Cappleman), published in 1992. His work has been shown in both regional and national exhibitions, and is in private collections in Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri and Tokyo, Japan.
