Teaching with Contemporary Art
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
What Makes Us (More) Human: The Vast Middle Ground Between Art and Science
Teaching with Contemporary Art
What Makes Us (More) Human: The Vast Middle Ground Between Art and Science
Many of you may remember quite a bit of public sparring that occurred between John Hammond and myself over the “What Makes Us Human” post back in September. Since then, …
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
Test-Driving the New Season 5 Educators’ Guide: John Baldessari and Juxtaposition
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Test-Driving the New Season 5 Educators’ Guide: John Baldessari and Juxtaposition
Within the first few pages of the season 5 Educators’ Guide, readers are asked to think about the power and influence of juxtaposing images in order to give the viewer …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Esopus Editor, Tod Lippy, Part Two
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Esopus Editor, Tod Lippy, Part Two
This is part two of my interview with Esopus editor, Tod Lippy (click here for part one). In addition to the interview, readers may also want to check out “The …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Esopus Editor, Tod Lippy, Part One
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Esopus Editor, Tod Lippy, Part One
Back in 2004, I was lucky enough to be introduced to Esopus magazine at a silent auction being held during a Mass MoCA fundraiser. Don’t ask me how, but my …
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