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Teaching with Contemporary Art
Test This
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Test This
This school year has started out like none other in recent memory. The fascination to quantify practically everything in education has now moved steadily into art education, as discussed in last week’s interview with Jessica Hoffmann Davis. Here in New York and across the entire country art educators (well, all educators, actually) are being forced to administer pre-assessment tests that “establish a baseline” of “what students know and are able to do” at the beginning of a course.
![[dNASAb]. “Screenscaping the Pixelsphere,” 2012. (1) 19" LED screen, (3) 4" LCD screens, pigmented plastic prints, clear plastic, wire, glass, crystal, foam, aluminum, resin, mirrors, fiber optics, media player, L.E.D's, 1 of 1 1080p HD video w. audio. Dimensions variable. Photo courtesy of the artist.](https://magazine.art21.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/IMG_07261200pix-300x190.jpeg)
Teaching with Contemporary Art
An Interview with Jessica Hoffmann Davis, Part Two
Teaching with Contemporary Art
An Interview with Jessica Hoffmann Davis, Part Two
This week it’s my pleasure to share part two of our interview with Jessica Hoffmann Davis. Many, many thanks to those who sent along such positive e-mails and messages saying they enjoyed the first half last week. I have a feeling you will also find part two inspirational…
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Goal-less Living Things: The Plants of Heidi Norton
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Goal-less Living Things: The Plants of Heidi Norton
Caroline Picard talks to artist Heidi Norton about her current solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, which incorporates living houseplant material.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
An Interview with Jessica Hoffmann Davis, Part One
Teaching with Contemporary Art
An Interview with Jessica Hoffmann Davis, Part One
This week it’s my pleasure to kick off a two-part interview with one of my favorite authors in the field of education, Jessica Hoffmann Davis.
Jessica Hoffmann Davis has published and lectured extensively on the role and promise of arts learning, drawing not only on her own and other current research, but also on personal experience as a visual artist, writer, and educator. While her popular book, Why Our Schools Need the Arts (Teachers College Press, 2008), proposes a “new and unapologetic approach to advocacy for the arts in education”, I originally came to admire her work through reading (and re-reading!) Framing Education as Art: The Octopus has a Good Day (Teachers College Press, 2005), where she challenges non-arts education to be more connected to and like the arts.
Art21 New York Close Up
NYCU | Alejandro Almanza Pereda’s Obstacle Course
Art21 New York Close Up
NYCU | Alejandro Almanza Pereda’s Obstacle Course
How do artists overcome the hurdles of moving to New York City? Watch Alejandro Almanza Pereda contend with a series of obstacles during his first semester of graduate school at Hunter College.
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