Articles by Joe Fusaro
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Hard Conversations (Exploring Inequality)
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Hard Conversations (Exploring Inequality)
In the New York Times last week, Nicholas Kristof reported that the richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of the income, up from 9 percent …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Skills Worth Teaching
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Skills Worth Teaching
This past April at the National Art Education Association’s annual conference in Baltimore, Craig Roland hosted and participated in a panel presentation called “What’s Worth Teaching in Art?” But before …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Moving Pictures
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Moving Pictures
Chalkboards are disappearing everywhere and interactive whiteboards are taking their place (or, in some cases, chalkboards are disappearing as interactive whiteboards are simply being pasted, nailed and everything short of …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Brainstorming Big Ideas and Arriving at the Best Idea
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Brainstorming Big Ideas and Arriving at the Best Idea
Every art student (and I mean EVERY art student- K-12, undergrad, graduate, adult education, private lessons, you name it) has had one or more situations when an initial idea for …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
The Wheels Are Rolling
Teaching with Contemporary Art
The Wheels Are Rolling
From July 7th through July 14th Art21 hosted our second annual summer institute, Art21 Educators. Art21 Educators is an intensive, year-long professional development initiative designed to cultivate and support K-12 …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Like an Artist, part 2 (and hold the Saltz)
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Like an Artist, part 2 (and hold the Saltz)
The Guggenheim Museum’s recent conference, Thinking Like an Artist: Creativity and Problem-Solving in the Classroom, turned out to be both an exciting and frustrating two days of panel-lectures and keynote …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Like an Artist, Part 1
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Like an Artist, Part 1
This Thursday and Friday the Guggenheim Museum hosts Thinking Like an Artist: Creativity and Problem Solving in the Classroom. Educators will arrive by plane, train, automobile, even on foot, to …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Can a successful work of art make you angry?
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Can a successful work of art make you angry?
Can a successful work of art make you angry, uncomfortable, or confused? This is one of the many questions we engage in as art educators and also one of the …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Nourishment
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Nourishment
Each year the National Art Education Association holds a conference for a few thousand people and streams of art teachers, art professors, artist-educators, museum educators, administrators, starving artists, starving administrators, …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 2
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 2
Below is the second part of my conversation with Laura Thompson, Director of Exhibitions and Education at Kidspace (part one of the interview can be found here). Many thanks to …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 1
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 1
On March 20, Kidspace at MASS MoCA celebrated its 10th anniversary. Kidspace, a contemporary art gallery, studio, and educational program, promotes the understanding and teaching of art through experiential learning …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Jumping Right Into the Shark Tank
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Jumping Right Into the Shark Tank
Back in the fall, a good friend and colleague passed along Denis Dutton’s New York Times Op-Ed piece titled Has Conceptual Art Jumped the Shark Tank? Deborah knew that the …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Hard Conversations (Exploring Inequality)
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Hard Conversations (Exploring Inequality)
In the New York Times last week, Nicholas Kristof reported that the richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of the income, up from 9 percent …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Skills Worth Teaching
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Skills Worth Teaching
This past April at the National Art Education Association’s annual conference in Baltimore, Craig Roland hosted and participated in a panel presentation called “What’s Worth Teaching in Art?” But before …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Moving Pictures
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Moving Pictures
Chalkboards are disappearing everywhere and interactive whiteboards are taking their place (or, in some cases, chalkboards are disappearing as interactive whiteboards are simply being pasted, nailed and everything short of …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Brainstorming Big Ideas and Arriving at the Best Idea
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Brainstorming Big Ideas and Arriving at the Best Idea
Every art student (and I mean EVERY art student- K-12, undergrad, graduate, adult education, private lessons, you name it) has had one or more situations when an initial idea for …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
The Wheels Are Rolling
Teaching with Contemporary Art
The Wheels Are Rolling
From July 7th through July 14th Art21 hosted our second annual summer institute, Art21 Educators. Art21 Educators is an intensive, year-long professional development initiative designed to cultivate and support K-12 …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Like an Artist, part 2 (and hold the Saltz)
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Like an Artist, part 2 (and hold the Saltz)
The Guggenheim Museum’s recent conference, Thinking Like an Artist: Creativity and Problem-Solving in the Classroom, turned out to be both an exciting and frustrating two days of panel-lectures and keynote …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Like an Artist, Part 1
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Like an Artist, Part 1
This Thursday and Friday the Guggenheim Museum hosts Thinking Like an Artist: Creativity and Problem Solving in the Classroom. Educators will arrive by plane, train, automobile, even on foot, to …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Can a successful work of art make you angry?
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Can a successful work of art make you angry?
Can a successful work of art make you angry, uncomfortable, or confused? This is one of the many questions we engage in as art educators and also one of the …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Nourishment
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Nourishment
Each year the National Art Education Association holds a conference for a few thousand people and streams of art teachers, art professors, artist-educators, museum educators, administrators, starving artists, starving administrators, …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 2
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 2
Below is the second part of my conversation with Laura Thompson, Director of Exhibitions and Education at Kidspace (part one of the interview can be found here). Many thanks to …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 1
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 1
On March 20, Kidspace at MASS MoCA celebrated its 10th anniversary. Kidspace, a contemporary art gallery, studio, and educational program, promotes the understanding and teaching of art through experiential learning …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Jumping Right Into the Shark Tank
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Jumping Right Into the Shark Tank
Back in the fall, a good friend and colleague passed along Denis Dutton’s New York Times Op-Ed piece titled Has Conceptual Art Jumped the Shark Tank? Deborah knew that the …