Tag Archives: Art21 Educators
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
Reflecting on the National Art Education Association’s Annual Conference
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on the National Art Education Association’s Annual Conference
Art21 Senior Education Advisor and columnist Joe Fusaro summarizes the 2014 NAEA conference.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Lynda Benglis in the Elementary Classroom
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Lynda Benglis in the Elementary Classroom
Sharing contemporary art is a wonderful way to generate questions and discussions about art, and in turn, motivate young artists to take risks with their own art making.
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 …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on the Art21 Educators Summer Institute
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on the Art21 Educators Summer Institute
This past Art21 Educators summer institute, which was recently held from July 2-10 here in NYC, just FLEW. Sixteen art, science, Spanish, English, special education, language arts and social studies teachers came together with us for eight days of workshops, conversations, artist visits, studio visits and museum visits in order to explore ways of utilizing contemporary art to foster student learning.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
TASK Unplugged
Teaching with Contemporary Art
TASK Unplugged
This year, to begin the fourth annual Art21 Educators Institute, we will start our nine days with Oliver Herring and TASK at Luhring Augustine Gallery in Brooklyn. In a year that has in some ways been about “restraints” inspired by Matthew Barney, we will be running TASK with three materials: pencil, paper and string.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
A Year of Contemporary Art in (and out of) Contemporary Classrooms
Teaching with Contemporary Art
A Year of Contemporary Art in (and out of) Contemporary Classrooms
This is part two of a three part series that will share the experiences of three Art21 Education staff members (Jessica Hamlin, Joe Fusaro, and Flossie Chua) after spending a year with a group of 16 incredible teachers. Each of us has a unique perspective on the past twelve months and this series will ruminate on what it means to teach with contemporary art, specifically contextualized by our experiences this year working with the Art21 Educators program.
