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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.

Year Five of Art21 Educators: Rebecca Mir and Alyssa Greenberg

Year Five of Art21 Educators: Rebecca Mir and Alyssa Greenberg

Since May, we’ve been introducing you to this year’s Art21 Educators. Today, meet our final two educators, Rebecca Mir and Alyssa Greenberg.

Year Five of Art21 Educators: Thomas Dareneau and Domenic Frunzi

Year Five of Art21 Educators: Thomas Dareneau and Domenic Frunzi

Every other week, we’ve been learning about our newest Art21 Educators. Today, we introduce Thomas Dareneau and Domenic Frunzi.

Year Five of Art21 Educators: Ryan Schmidt and Erin Shafkind

Year Five of Art21 Educators: Ryan Schmidt and Erin Shafkind

We’ve already introduced two pairs of this year’s Art21 Educators. Today, let’s say hello to a third: Ryan Schmidt and Erin Shafkind.

Year Five of Art21 Educators: Becca Belleville and Eric Pugh

Year Five of Art21 Educators: Becca Belleville and Eric Pugh

This week, we are excited to present Art21 Educators Becca Belleville and Eric Pugh of Baltimore, Maryland.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Year Five of Art21 Educators: Lynn Grimes and Carol Barker

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Year Five of Art21 Educators: Lynn Grimes and Carol Barker

This week, we are pleased to spotlight the first of this year’s selected educators.

Connecting Teachers and Artists: Year Five of Art21 Educators

Connecting Teachers and Artists: Year Five of Art21 Educators

Announcing twelve exceptional new teachers in the Art21 Educators program.

Praxis Makes Perfect

Praxis Makes Perfect | Where Does the Art Happen?

Praxis Makes Perfect

Praxis Makes Perfect | Where Does the Art Happen?

Kelsey Elisabeth Nelson asks what’s so important about erasure?

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 New York Close Up

Teaching with New York Close Up | Liz Magic Laser and David Brooks

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 New York Close Up

Teaching with New York Close Up | Liz Magic Laser and David Brooks

Two recent New York Close Up films featuring artists Liz Magic Laser and David Brooks exemplify how the film series “can make strong interdisciplinary connections.”

Time is Running Out: Join Us for Art21 Educators

Time is Running Out: Join Us for Art21 Educators

One last reminder: there are less than two weeks left to apply for year five of Art21 Educators.

A Conversation with Jen Schwarting

A Conversation with Jen Schwarting

Amanda Beroza Friedman talks with artist and writer Jen Schwarting about Google searching for “drunk girls.”

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 Educators: Success Stories

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 Educators: Success Stories

Over the past four years there have been many success stories from a what-still-feels-like-new Art21 Educators program. And while the experiences within and beyond Art21 Educators vary wildly from teacher to teacher, some of the educators we have worked with- in a range of disciplines and not just art- have provided us with specific comments and reflective narratives that often make smiles touch the back of our heads.

Praxis Makes Perfect

Praxis Makes Perfect | Chicken Soup (for Those Who Love Art)

Praxis Makes Perfect

Praxis Makes Perfect | Chicken Soup (for Those Who Love Art)

Is there a fundamental difference between the Maker Movement and the kind of hands-on learning that already happens in most museums?

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Join Us for Year Five of Art21 Educators

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Join Us for Year Five of Art21 Educators

Are you a teacher interested in learning more about utilizing contemporary art in your classroom? Does spending a week in New York City this summer collaborating with other educators and …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Lynda Benglis in the Elementary Classroom

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Lynda Benglis in the Elementary Classroom

Sharing contemporary art is a wonderful way to generate questions and discussions about art, and in turn, motivate young artists to take risks with their own art making.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Uncovering Works of Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Uncovering Works of Art

Monday evening I had the pleasure of participating in a dynamite online conversation with our current group of Art21 Educators. We decided, based on some requests we received recently, to spend a little time actually looking at art together.

New Guest Blogger: Mike Chang, Artist, Singapore

New Guest Blogger: Mike Chang, Artist, Singapore

Former guest blogger Mike Chang, an artist and educator living in Singapore, returns for another stint as the Art21 Blog’s writer-in-residence!

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Shannon Fitzgerald

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Shannon Fitzgerald

Georgia Kotretsos talks to the new executive director of the Rochester Art Center in Rochester, Minnesota.

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Doug Ashford

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Doug Ashford

Thom Donovan interviews Doug Ashford, who is widely known for his work with Group Material during the period 1983-1996.

Thirtysomethings: Three Mexican Artists under Forty

Thirtysomethings: Three Mexican Artists under Forty

Guest blogger Mariana Aguirre looks at the work of three up-and-coming Mexican artists, all under the age of forty.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Reflecting on the Art21 Educators Summer Institute

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Reflecting on the Art21 Educators Summer Institute

This past Art21 Educators summer institute, which was recently held from July 2-10 here in NYC, just FLEW. Sixteen art, science, Spanish, English, special education, language arts and social studies teachers came together with us for eight days of workshops, conversations, artist visits, studio visits and museum visits in order to explore ways of utilizing contemporary art to foster student learning.

A Year of Contemporary Art in Contemporary Classrooms

A Year of Contemporary Art in Contemporary Classrooms

Art21 Education staff member Flossie Chua shares her perspectives on a “dangerous” year spent with incredible educators learning to teach with contemporary art.

Year Four Art21 Educators | Dennis Greenwell and Salem Robert Limpert

Year Four Art21 Educators | Dennis Greenwell and Salem Robert Limpert

Art21 Educators introduces Dennis Greenwell, a high school art teacher in Murfreesboro, TN, and Salem Robert Limpert, a language arts/English literature teacher in Smyrna, TN.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Carol Becker

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Carol Becker

Georgia Kotretsos talks to Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University’s School of the Arts, about art education and the process of building great art schools.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

A Year of Contemporary Art in (and out of) Contemporary Classrooms

Teaching with Contemporary Art

A Year of Contemporary Art in (and out of) Contemporary Classrooms

This is part two of a three part series that will share the experiences of three Art21 Education staff members (Jessica Hamlin, Joe Fusaro, and Flossie Chua) after spending a year with a group of 16 incredible teachers. Each of us has a unique perspective on the past twelve months and this series will ruminate on what it means to teach with contemporary art, specifically contextualized by our experiences this year working with the Art21 Educators program.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

A Year of Contemporary Art in Contemporary Classrooms

Teaching with Contemporary Art

A Year of Contemporary Art in Contemporary Classrooms

Jessica Hamlin kicks off a three-part series sharing the experiences of three Art21 Education staff members who spent a year with a group of sixteen incredible teachers.

Year Four Art21 Educators | Dillon Paul and Angela Larsen

Year Four Art21 Educators | Dillon Paul and Angela Larsen

In our latest installment of Year Four Art21 Educators Introductions, meet Dillon Paul and Angela Larsen, who teach in Brooklyn, NY and Seattle, Washington, respectively.

Year Four Art21 Educators | Catherine Karp and Cheryl Vernick

Year Four Art21 Educators | Catherine Karp and Cheryl Vernick

Meet Catherine Karp and Cheryl Vernick, who teach art to grades Pre-K through 8 at neighboring Montessori schools in Massachusetts.

Year Four Art21 Educators | Caitlin Miller and Matthew Garza

Year Four Art21 Educators | Caitlin Miller and Matthew Garza

This week in our Year Four Art21 Educator series, we profile Caitlin Miller and Matthew Garza, who teach at the Aaron School in New York City.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Year Four Art21 Educators | Carl Andersen and Craig Newsom

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Year Four Art21 Educators | Carl Andersen and Craig Newsom

Next up in our Year Four Art21 Educators series, we introduce Carl Anderson and Craig Newsom, who teach in Minneapolis and Carlinville, Illinois, respectively.

Announcing the New Teachers for Year Four of Art21 Educators

Announcing the New Teachers for Year Four of Art21 Educators

We’re pleased to introduce our new cohort of Art21 Educators! Today, meet Shannah Burton and Linda Churchwell-Vega of the New City School in St. Louis, MO.

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | On the Art Market

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | On the Art Market

Teaching a class on the history of the Art Market has Michelle Jubin thinking about ethics, profits, art handlers’ rights, and May Day, aka International Worker’s Day.

Season 6 of Art in the Twenty-First Century Premieres on PBS Tonight!

Season 6 of Art in the Twenty-First Century Premieres on PBS Tonight!

Season 6 of Art in the Twenty-First Century premieres nationally tonight and features artists Catherine Opie, El Anatsui, and Ai Weiwei.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy

The Curator of Contemporary Art at Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) talks about the state of contemporary Latin American Art and the role of art institutions today.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Words and Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Words and Art

I had no idea what to write about this week, so I asked my son, Paul…. He’s six. “Write about words and art,” he said. “Why?” I asked. “Because words …

Sanford Biggers and the contemporary Mandala (2012). Emory Visual Arts Gallery. Photo by the author.

Sanford Biggers: Contemporary Mandala and the Hip-Hop Ethos

Sanford Biggers: Contemporary Mandala and the Hip-Hop Ethos

Nettrice Gaskins reports on Sanford Biggers’ week-long residency at Emory University, where he created a contemporary mandala that functions as a dance floor.