Bernard Young is a professor of art education in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. He has also served as coordinator of graduate studies in art education and director of the Eleanor A. Robb Children's Art Workshop since 1988. Young’s research interests are in multicultural issues in art and education with special interests in children’s development and learning. Young is also a practicing artist. He has received a number of awards, including the 2012 Lowenfeld Award, National Art Education Association and, also in 2012, he presented, the first annual Joseph F. McKrindle Lecture in Art Education, offered in conjunction with "Full Spectrum: Prints form the Brandywine Workshop," at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Education Department. He was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education, 2003.

Along with his teaching, Professor Young has served on numerous committees nationally, locally and at the university. A few of these are: The President’s Advisory Council on African American Affairs (2020-present). The Academic Assembly Council of The College Board (2001-2004). He chaired the University's Committee on African American and African Studies (1991-94). He served as a member of the University Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2005-2006 and on the College Board - National Task Force on the Arts in Education Steering Committee, 2007-2009. Exhibited art in the exhibition, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983 organized by the Tate Modern, London. This exhibition has travelled for three years to such museums as, the Brooklyn Museum, The Broad, Crystal Bridges Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston).

He has been working with a project called Artura.org for three years. We have produced two teacher’s Guides of Cross-Curricular and Cross -Cultural Learning: Volumes 1 and 2. In volume one Young invites you to read his article, Making Multicultural Education and Art Education an Important Part of Curriculum. Published in Artura.org 2021. Most recently he had Chapter 7: Diversity and Equity in NAEA, Bernard Young and Wanda B. Knight, published, In National Art Education Association 75th Anniversary Book, Edited by Read Diket and David Burton (2022)