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Category: Art Education

The Artful Balance Between Nature and Nurture

In 1944 an engineer named Harold Fisk was tasked with the challenge of illustrating the dense and esoteric report by … More

Art Education, Art History, Environmental Art, Georgia O'Keeffe, Harold Fisk, Maps, Mississippi RIver, STEAM, Yayoi Kusama

The Pedagogy of Pee-wee

It takes a lot of artistic skill and understanding of the human psyche in order to be successful as a … More

Andy Warhol, Art Education, Contemporary Art, Paul Reubens, Pee-wee Herman, Performance Art, Playful Learning

Native Americana: Decolonizing Pop Culture

Like previous Pop Artists Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, Frank Buffalo Hyde utilizes images and objects from popular culture as … More

Art Education, Art History, Contemporary Art, decolonization, Education, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Indigenous Art, Multiculturalism, Pop Culture

Education is Eternal

I cannot say or truly fathom what happens after we stop living in the corporeal sense. However, just because our … More

Art Education, Contemporary Art, Green-Wood Cemetery, History, memorials, New York City History, Public Art, Rowan Renee, William Russell Johnson

Come on Barbie, Let’s Get Arty

With the blockbuster live action Barbie movie premiering soon, I thought it would be timely to discuss how the iconic … More

Adrian Piper, Art Education, Barbie, Barbie movie, Chantal Feitosa, Contemporary Art, Education Policy, Exquisite Corpse, Feminist Art, Hans Bellmer, racism, Surrealism

Spark of Knowledge: Fireworks and Contemporary Art

Summertime evenings are full of the sights and sounds of fireworks. These displays are a ubiquitous celebratory event throughout culture, … More

Art Education, Art History, Cai Guo-Qiang, Contemporary Art, Fireworks, Judy Chicago, Multiculturalism, Public Art

Artfully Learning Audio Series Episode 19: The Art of Time

Art, education and philosophy are intrinsically linked as they each utilize a certain vocabulary and experiential means to explore fundamental … More

Art Education, collaborative learning, Contemporary Art, Education, Kerry Langsdale, Philosophy, Podcast, time

Tim Paints a “Vermeer”

In the first few minutes of the documentary Tim’s Vermeer (2014), Tim Jenison admits that he is by no means … More

Art Education, Art History, Contemporary Art, documentary film, Education, Johannes Vermeer, Painting, STEAM, STEM, Technology, Tim Jenison

Meaningful Materials and Conscious Combines (with Lesson Plan)

I recently wrote about artist Jane Housham who collects (mostly) ephemeral items associated with childhood and material culture and presents … More

Art Education, Art History, Assemblage sculpture, collaborative learning, Contemporary Art, Curriculum, Education, Jim Condron, Lesson Plans

Bee-auty and Brains

I know that Summer has truly arrived when I am greeted with the sight of honeybees working hard to get … More

Art Education, Beehive, Bees, Contemporary Art, Ecoart, Emily Puthoff, Environmental Art, Joseph Beuys, Rudolf Steiner, Science, sculpture, STEAM

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