Yearly Archives: 2012
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Andrea Fraser’s Men on the Line
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Andrea Fraser’s Men on the Line
Responding to the legacy of the Woman’s Building, Fraser’s new performance revisits 1970s-era gender issues and evaluates feminism’s progress.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art in the Elementary Classroom
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art in the Elementary Classroom
Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott made some important points in last week’s interview and this week we take the opportunity to point out two of them regarding how teachers construct elementary art-making experiences and use documentation to influence their work.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Art21 Educators: Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Art21 Educators: Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott
This week I want to share a conversation that took place between myself and two of our current, amazing Art21 Educators. Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott teach elementary art education for the Scott and Westdale Elementary Schools in Melrose Park near Chicago. Their work has been inspiring to all of us here at Art21, especially since they are finding ways to work with contemporary art and engage some very young students in the process.
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Unabashedly Beautiful Prints of Helen Frankenthaler
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Unabashedly Beautiful Prints of Helen Frankenthaler
The late Helen Frankenthaler’s contributions as a painter are renowned; Hanley argues that her achievements as a printmaker are equally important.
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Draw the Devil from this Boy
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Draw the Devil from this Boy
Traveling to India on a Fulbright scholarship, David MacLean woke up in a train station with no passport and no idea who he was. An excerpt from his forthcoming memoir.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Working with Memory
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Working with Memory
Working with memory presents challenges, like many themes and ideas we choose to teach with, that are terribly difficult to get rolling without an organized, broad and juicy introduction. This week’s column explores how looking back can help with planning forward for better introductions to thematic units.