Tag Archives: Interviews
Teaching with Contemporary Art
An Interview with Jessica Hoffmann Davis, Part Two
Teaching with Contemporary Art
An Interview with Jessica Hoffmann Davis, Part Two
This week it’s my pleasure to share part two of our interview with Jessica Hoffmann Davis. Many, many thanks to those who sent along such positive e-mails and messages saying they enjoyed the first half last week. I have a feeling you will also find part two inspirational…
Teaching with Contemporary Art
An Interview with Jessica Hoffmann Davis, Part One
Teaching with Contemporary Art
An Interview with Jessica Hoffmann Davis, Part One
This week it’s my pleasure to kick off a two-part interview with one of my favorite authors in the field of education, Jessica Hoffmann Davis.
Jessica Hoffmann Davis has published and lectured extensively on the role and promise of arts learning, drawing not only on her own and other current research, but also on personal experience as a visual artist, writer, and educator. While her popular book, Why Our Schools Need the Arts (Teachers College Press, 2008), proposes a “new and unapologetic approach to advocacy for the arts in education”, I originally came to admire her work through reading (and re-reading!) Framing Education as Art: The Octopus has a Good Day (Teachers College Press, 2005), where she challenges non-arts education to be more connected to and like the arts.
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Leeza Ahmady (Part 2)
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Leeza Ahmady (Part 2)
Part 2 of Georgia Kotretsos’ interview with independent curator Leeza Ahmady, the director of Asian Contemporary Art Week in New York.
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Seriously Printeresting: An Interview with the Founders
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Seriously Printeresting: An Interview with the Founders
Sarah Kirk Hanley talks to the founders of Printeresting, a blog devoted to the art of printmaking and to printmaking miscellany.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Summer Talk
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Summer Talk
For as long as I can remember, interviews like those featured in Bomb, Harpers and Art in America have inspired me to reevaluate the kinds of things I assume in my own teaching and art making. Divergent perspectives, or perspectives that are close to my own but unfamiliar in some ways, have provided me with more than just stunning quotes to share with my students and ideas to meditate on in the studio. I find myself underlining, highlighting, bookmarking pages and sticking post-its all over the place (a well-loved book in my library looks like it’s been through hell and back).
Art21 New York Close Up
NYCU | “David Brooks Tears the Roof Off”
Art21 New York Close Up
NYCU | “David Brooks Tears the Roof Off”
Watch artist David Brooks and a team of fabricators construct “Desert Rooftops” (2011–12), an Art Production Fund commission for the last undeveloped lot in Manhattan’s Times Square neighborhood.
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Andrea Geyer
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Andrea Geyer
Thom Donovan talks with Andrea Geyer, whose 10-channel video installation “9 Scripts from a Nation at War” is currently on view at MoMA.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Art21 Educators: Jethro Gillespie and Jack Watson
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Art21 Educators: Jethro Gillespie and Jack Watson
Over the past few weeks I’ve thoroughly enjoyed talking and e-mailing with two more of our current Art21 Educators, Jethro Gillespie and Jack Watson. Jethro teaches Studio Art, 3D Design, Ceramics and other art courses at Maple Mountain High School in Utah while Jack teaches 2D Art and Art History at Chapel High School in North Carolina. Both look for ways to better engage their classes on a consistent basis and avoid “window dressing” projects that may look pretty but aren’t necessarily about very much…
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | The Science and Ethics of Contemporary Art Conservation: A Discussion with Tom Learner
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | The Science and Ethics of Contemporary Art Conservation: A Discussion with Tom Learner
Richard McCoy talks to Tom Learner, senior scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute, whose career has spanned a number of important institutions and projects.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art in the Elementary Classroom
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art in the Elementary Classroom
Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott made some important points in last week’s interview and this week we take the opportunity to point out two of them regarding how teachers construct elementary art-making experiences and use documentation to influence their work.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Art21 Educators: Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Art21 Educators: Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott
This week I want to share a conversation that took place between myself and two of our current, amazing Art21 Educators. Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott teach elementary art education for the Scott and Westdale Elementary Schools in Melrose Park near Chicago. Their work has been inspiring to all of us here at Art21, especially since they are finding ways to work with contemporary art and engage some very young students in the process.
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio |Storm Janse van Rensburg
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio |Storm Janse van Rensburg
Storm Janse van Rensburg is a South African curator and Senior Curator of the Goodman Gallery group currently based in Cape Town (CT), South Africa. Van Rensburg began his …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Maureen Connor
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Maureen Connor
In the past decade the visual arts have seen a retreat from traditional locations of meaning making and power. This retreat can be partially attributed to the increasing disparity between …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Following the Eames Legacy: A Discussion with Daniel Ostroff [Part II]
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Following the Eames Legacy: A Discussion with Daniel Ostroff [Part II]
Richard McCoy and Tricia Gilson talk with Eames expert Daniel Ostroff about his ongoing work in studying, collecting, and exhibiting the designs of Charles and Ray Eames [Part II].
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Following the Eames Legacy: A Discussion with Daniel Ostroff [Part I]
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Following the Eames Legacy: A Discussion with Daniel Ostroff [Part I]
Richard McCoy and Tricia Gilson talk with Eames expert Daniel Ostroff about his ongoing work in study, collecting, and exhibiting the designs of Charles and Ray Eames [Part I].
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The Language of Materials: Janne Larsen and Sibyl Wickersheimer’s “Big Haul”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The Language of Materials: Janne Larsen and Sibyl Wickersheimer’s “Big Haul”
Editor’s Note: This week, Los Angeles-based writer Carol Cheh fills in for Lily Simonson, who is travelling. Cheh is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles. She is …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Joy and Revolution: Talking with Adam Weiler of Ambrose, Part 2
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Joy and Revolution: Talking with Adam Weiler of Ambrose, Part 2
This week’s column follows up on last week’s post and features part two of my interview with Adam Weiler of Ambrose, an atypical after school club in Holland, Michigan. If …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Joy and Revolution: Talking with Adam Weiler of Ambrose
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Joy and Revolution: Talking with Adam Weiler of Ambrose
If you’re not familiar with Ambrose, well…. you should be. A few months ago on a trip to work with teachers at the Holland Area Arts Council in Michigan I …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice With Gregory Sholette
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice With Gregory Sholette
Artist, scholar, organizer, and professor, Gregory Sholette embodies multiple ways that artists can interrogate history, politics, and public discourse. Through his initial work with the group REPOhistory (1989-2000) (as in, “repossessing …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation
Los Angeles has a reputation for not only its excess, sprawl, and exploding population, but also for its unruly, anarchic and highly changeable landscape. Rethink/LA: Perspectives on a Future …
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