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About Mary Godfrey
- Mary Emmeline Godfrey (3 July 1913 - 30 April 2007) was an artist and art educator who became the first African-American faculty member at Penn State University.
- She was hired in 1957 and served as an assistant professor of art education until her retirement in 1979.She gained a bachelor of fine arts from the Pratt Institute and a master's degree from Columbia University and worked as the assistant state supervisor of art education for the Virginia Department of Education.
- In 1957, Dr.
- Viktor Lowenfeld, head of the newly formed Department of Art Education, College of Education, at The Pennsylvania State University, hired Godfrey as assistant professor of art education.
- She was the first full-time African American faculty member hired at Penn State.
- She served for 22 years, teaching courses in elementary and secondary art education, supervision, the history of art education, and introduction to crafts.
- She researched the design of art classrooms, studying Pennsylvania art education laboratories, art rooms, and facilities for junior high schools.
- Her artwork was exhibited in both Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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