ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a conjecture regarding the potential of the arts to enhance the study of leadership and its practice in educational contexts. It describes three phased study of artists and educational leaders and comments indicated which are connected to Elliot Eisner's epistemic frames. The chapter discussed how and when artists developed their discerning eyes. It indicates educational leaders' comments connected to Eisner's epistemic frames. Eisner and Schama suggest that art provides a new and active way of seeing that enables a person to fully appreciate what is happening in the world or, as Oscar Wilde once said, "the mission of true art, to make pause and look at a thing a second time". The interviews of educational leaders in Australia and America revealed that they were moving towards advanced competencies in areas amounting to the development of connoisseurship in their roles, albeit some were moving faster than others.
