Tag Archives: arts education
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.
Strategies & Resources
Finding Room in the Classroom for Every Voice
Strategies & Resources
Finding Room in the Classroom for Every Voice
Educator-in-Residence Jeannine Bardo introduces lessons from her third-grade unit on “Home,” in which students’ research is centered on facets of their community: themselves, their family, and their friends.
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
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
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.
