Articles by Jack Watson

Strategies & Resources

Bad Art

by Jack Watson | Nov 28, 2016

Strategies & Resources

Bad Art

by Jack Watson | Nov 28, 2016

Art21 Educator Jack Watson shares a creativity exercise that asks students to make “bad art” as a way to allow for experimentation and playful collaboration.

Strategies & Resources

Unit Plan: Layering Experience

by Jack Watson | Nov 18, 2016

Strategies & Resources

Unit Plan: Layering Experience

by Jack Watson | Nov 18, 2016

Art21 Educator Jack Watson shares a unit plan that encourages students to find their own methods of exploring shared experiences and spaces.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art + Action: Creating a Platform for Social Justice

by Jack Watson | Nov 11, 2016

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art + Action: Creating a Platform for Social Justice

by Jack Watson | Nov 11, 2016

Art21 Educator Jack Watson shares his recent experience with launching a social justice collective at his high school in Durham, North Carolina.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Getting Beyond Good and Bad

by Jack Watson | Apr 28, 2014

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Getting Beyond Good and Bad

by Jack Watson | Apr 28, 2014

Art21 Educator Jack Watson on teaching students to delay judgement, and the “balancing act” involved in evaluating art.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Works Well With Others

by Jack Watson | Jul 31, 2013

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Works Well With Others

by Jack Watson | Jul 31, 2013

Guest blogger Jack Watson asks what would happen if art teachers stopped showing students “how to work and started modeling how to work with others?”