Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Fueled by the Classroom: Being an Artist and Educator
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Fueled by the Classroom: Being an Artist and Educator
Art21’s senior education advisor, Joe Fusaro, shares how he makes meaningful connections between his art practice and being an arts educator.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Agency in the Classroom: Who Makes the Decisions?
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Agency in the Classroom: Who Makes the Decisions?
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
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Making Important Choices
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.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Rooted in the Home: Thoughts on Building Connections Between Students & Artists
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Rooted in the Home: Thoughts on Building Connections Between Students & Artists
Educator-in-Residence Jocelyn Salaz offers insight into how incorporating familiar aesthetics can help students identify with artists.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Scenius, Inspiration, and Invention
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Scenius, Inspiration, and Invention
Educator-in-Residence Todd Elkin reflects on the ways in which his classroom embodies the concept of “scenius,” in which creative inventions emerge from social contexts, as the students working near each other riff off one another’s strategies and ideas.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Assessment as Dialogue: Shifting Power Dynamics in the Classroom
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Assessment as Dialogue: Shifting Power Dynamics in the Classroom
Educator-in-Residence Todd Elkin explains the origins of his experimental curriculum “Assessment as Dialogue,” which upends the traditional power dynamics in a classroom and asks students and teachers to collaborate on the most effective methods of learning.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Inside, Outside, Online: Dissecting social media, escape and identity
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Inside, Outside, Online: Dissecting social media, escape and identity
Educator-in-Residence Stacey Abramson relates the experience of art-making to that of constructing an identity online—both are a means of self-presentation and escape.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Rust, Decay and Decomposition: Four Artists to Teach With
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Rust, Decay and Decomposition: Four Artists to Teach With
Art21 Senior Education Advisor Joe Fusaro shares four artists who use rust and decay to tell stories, illuminate histories, and prompt us to think about beauty in new ways.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Nick Cave’s Until, Until Conversations Emerge
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Nick Cave’s Until, Until Conversations Emerge
Art21 Senior Education Advisor Joe Fusaro discusses how Nick Cave’s immersive installation “Until” can serve as a conversation starter for difficult subjects like racism and violence.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Why Contemporary Art? Art21 & The Value of Inspiration
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Why Contemporary Art? Art21 & The Value of Inspiration
This Giving Tuesday, four Art21 Educators share how Art21’s films and programs have opened their students’ eyes to new possibilities.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
On Not Feeling Powerless: How Youth Activists and Art21 Artists Can Model Proactive Social Engagement
Teaching with Contemporary Art
On Not Feeling Powerless: How Youth Activists and Art21 Artists Can Model Proactive Social Engagement
Art21 Educator Todd Elkin discusses his students’ reactions to the 2016 presidential election, and how Art21 artists can serve as a model for constructive social engagement.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Finding Community: Art21 Educators and Contemporary Art in the Classroom
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Finding Community: Art21 Educators and Contemporary Art in the Classroom
Art21 Educator Jeannine Bardo shares how using Art21 films and resources in the classroom has expanded her teaching practice.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art + Action: Creating a Platform for Social Justice
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art + Action: Creating a Platform for Social Justice
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
ART21 Educators Institute: Laylah Ali on Process and “John Brown Song!”
Teaching with Contemporary Art
ART21 Educators Institute: Laylah Ali on Process and “John Brown Song!”
Artist Laylah Ali shares her thoughts on ‘process’ at July’s ART21 Educators Institute in New York City.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Classroom Catalysts: Enabling Personal Revolutions Through Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Classroom Catalysts: Enabling Personal Revolutions Through Art
“What is art but a way of seeing?” —Thomas Berger Sometimes the most significant revolutions make no noise at all, happening completely within someone’s frame of mind. These individual transformations might …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on the National Art Education Association’s Annual Conference
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on the National Art Education Association’s Annual Conference
Art21 Senior Education Advisor and columnist Joe Fusaro summarizes the 2014 NAEA conference.
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