Claire Golomb
Research
Representational development in the domains of the visual arts, imagination, and symbolic play including artistic development in normal and developmentally atypical populations
Teaching
Undergraduate:
Infancy and Child Development
The Growth of Imaginative Behavior
The Development of Child Art
Humanistic Psychology
Graduate:
Lifespan Development I, focus on the childhood years
Selected publications
Claire Golomb (1992). The Child's Creation of a Pictorial World. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
Claire Golomb (1995). (Ed.) The Development of Artistically Gifted Children. Hillsdale, NJ:
Erlbaum.
Claire Golomb & L. Galasso (1995). Make believe and reality: Explorations of the Imaginary
Realm. Developmental Psychology, 31, (5), 800-810.
Claire Golomb & R. Kuersten (1996). On the transition from pretense play to reality: What
are the rules of the game? British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 14, 203-217.
Claire Golomb & J. Schmeling (1996). Drawing development in artistic and mentally retarded
children. Visual Arts Research, 22, 5-18.
Phone: 617-287-6365
Email: claire.golomb@umb.edu