Tag Archives: Art & Education
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Scenius, Inspiration, and Invention
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Scenius, Inspiration, and Invention
Educator-in-Residence Todd Elkin reflects on the ways in which his classroom embodies the concept of “scenius,” in which creative inventions emerge from social contexts, as the students working near each other riff off one another’s strategies and ideas.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Nick Cave’s Until, Until Conversations Emerge
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Nick Cave’s Until, Until Conversations Emerge
Art21 Senior Education Advisor Joe Fusaro discusses how Nick Cave’s immersive installation “Until” can serve as a conversation starter for difficult subjects like racism and violence.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Why Contemporary Art? Art21 & The Value of Inspiration
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Why Contemporary Art? Art21 & The Value of Inspiration
This Giving Tuesday, four Art21 Educators share how Art21’s films and programs have opened their students’ eyes to new possibilities.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
On Not Feeling Powerless: How Youth Activists and Art21 Artists Can Model Proactive Social Engagement
Teaching with Contemporary Art
On Not Feeling Powerless: How Youth Activists and Art21 Artists Can Model Proactive Social Engagement
Art21 Educator Todd Elkin discusses his students’ reactions to the 2016 presidential election, and how Art21 artists can serve as a model for constructive social engagement.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Finding Community: Art21 Educators and Contemporary Art in the Classroom
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Finding Community: Art21 Educators and Contemporary Art in the Classroom
Art21 Educator Jeannine Bardo shares how using Art21 films and resources in the classroom has expanded her teaching practice.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
ART21 Educators Institute: Laylah Ali on Process and “John Brown Song!”
Teaching with Contemporary Art
ART21 Educators Institute: Laylah Ali on Process and “John Brown Song!”
Artist Laylah Ali shares her thoughts on ‘process’ at July’s ART21 Educators Institute in New York City.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Classroom Catalysts: Enabling Personal Revolutions Through Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Classroom Catalysts: Enabling Personal Revolutions Through Art
“What is art but a way of seeing?” —Thomas Berger Sometimes the most significant revolutions make no noise at all, happening completely within someone’s frame of mind. These individual transformations might …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Spotlight Conversations
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Spotlight Conversations
During Art21’s yearlong professional development initiative, Art21 Educators, we ask that teachers coordinate a one-on-one or group conversation that allows them to reflect on and explore major successes and challenges …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Two Histories of the World: Part Two
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Two Histories of the World: Part Two
Caroline Picard looks at “Two Histories of the World,” a two-part exhibition taking place at two different venues and at two different points in time.
