This article discusses the important scholarly contributions to our understandings of creativity, education, and the arts. I describe many important contributions, beginning with Dr. Ellen Winner’s foundational studies of child development and the arts in the 1970s and 1980s. I identify several common themes throughout her career. First, I characterize her work as problem finding in nature—exploring new areas and identifying promising new research questions. Second, I discuss the interdisciplinary nature of her work—describing the broad range of empirical studies she has conducted, not only in the arts but also topics ranging from dyslexia to wisdom later in life. Third, I summarize her important contributions to our empirical understandings of the benefits of arts education. Finally, I describe the deeply collaborative nature of her work, noting students and colleagues that she has published with.

本文讨论了对我们对创造力，教育和艺术的理解的重要学术贡献。我从Ellen Winner博士对1970年代和1980年代儿童发展与艺术的基础研究开始，描述了许多重要的贡献。我确定了她整个职业生涯中的几个共同主题。首先，我将她的工作描述为自然界中的问题发现-探索新领域并确定有前途的新研究问题。其次，我讨论了她作品的跨学科性质，描述了她所进行的广泛的实证研究，不仅涉及艺术领域，而且涉及从阅读障碍到后来的智慧等话题。第三，我总结了她对我们对艺术教育的益处的经验理解的重要贡献。最后，我描述了她作品的深度合作性质，