Fall 2018
“Being an Artist”

Family Business

by Lucia Hierro | Dec 21, 2018

Family Business

by Lucia Hierro | Dec 21, 2018

Lucia Hierro recites her path to becoming an artist. From investigating the cultural histories not available in art history to vindicating a career in the fine arts to her family, Hierro explains how she came to bring Caribbean iconography into the forefront in her work.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Agency in the Classroom: Who Makes the Decisions?

by Alisa Rodny | Nov 28, 2018

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Agency in the Classroom: Who Makes the Decisions?

by Alisa Rodny | Nov 28, 2018

Art21 Educator Alisa Rodny explains how she encourages students to take agency in their art-making and shares the story of two students who used artistic voice to express their stories of immigration to the United States.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Making Important Choices

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 13, 2018

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Making Important Choices

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 13, 2018

Educator Joe Fusaro illustrates how contemporary art and artists can have a local and global effect through the lens of works by Creative Growth Art Center, Olafur Elliason and Robin Rhode.

Waiting To See What I Would Become

by Art21 | Nov 5, 2018

Waiting To See What I Would Become

by Art21 | Nov 5, 2018

William Kentridge discusses how his family history in politics and previous employment in the film industry influenced his animations, in an interview originally published in the Art21 book, Being an Artist.

Biography is Complicated

by Catherine Morris | Oct 30, 2018

Biography is Complicated

by Catherine Morris | Oct 30, 2018

Curator Catherine Morris surveys the career of Judith Scott, a celebrated Creative Growth Art Center artist with developmental disabilities.

The Issue Of Perspective

by Lerato Dumse | Oct 17, 2018

The Issue Of Perspective

by Lerato Dumse | Oct 17, 2018

Journalist and director, Lerato Dumse, explains the significance and need for a Black lesbian perspective in media.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching as a Collaborator

by Alisa Rodny | Oct 17, 2018

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching as a Collaborator

by Alisa Rodny | Oct 17, 2018

Art21 Educator Alisa Rodny shares an assignment she developed where students partner with an artist from the Art21 archive to collaborate with and using their own style as a model.

Letter from the Editor

How to Choose

by Tina Kukielski | Oct 17, 2018

Letter from the Editor

How to Choose

by Tina Kukielski | Oct 17, 2018

Art 21 Executive Director, Tina Kukielski introduces the Fall 2018 Issue, “Choice” and the release of Art21’s newest publication, “Being an Artist,” which features previously unpublished interviews across the three video series, and 18-year tenure in letting artists share their experience and process in their own words.