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Category: Art History

The Kent State Shooting was 50 Years Ago

Schools have experienced many of the deadliest mass shootings in the history of the United States of America. This should … More

Art Education, Contemporary Art, George Segal, Gun Control, Gun Violence, John Filo, Kent State Shooting, Parkland Shooting, photography, Public Health, sculpture, This is Not a Gun, Vietnam War

Sewing and Growing: Communal Quilts for Education and Liberation

Quilt making is a powerful art-centered form of collaborative learning and communicating that has significant roots in shaping many social, … More

AIDS Memorial, Amanda Browder, Art Education, Art History, Bisa Butler, Contemporary Art, COVID19, Faith Ringgold, Feminist Art, Gees Bend Quilters, HIV/AIDS, Public Art, Quilts

Life imitates art: Communicating and discovering the world IRL via video games

When the COVID-19 pandemic began and it became clear that our new reality would include social distancing and going into … More

Animal Crossing, Art Education, Art History, Contemporary Art, Education, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, Shing Yin Khor, video games, Visual Culture

The dog did my homework

Dogs, often endearingly called “a human’s best friend,” are a longstanding popular subject for realistic and imaginative portrayals in art … More

anthromorphic, Art Education, Art History, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, Contemporary Art, Dog Days, Dog School, Dogs, Man Ray, photography, Poker Dogs, social media, William Wegman

Artist see, artist do

You have likely heard the saying “monkey see, monkey do.” This phrase refers to how primates, a taxonomic order which … More

Adrian Piper, Art Education, Art History, art lessons, Bob Ross, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Contemporary Art, Jon Gnagy, Joseph Beuys, Kim Beom, Martha Rosler, Paul McCarthy, remote learning

Art Education in an Age of Social Distancing

By its very nature, engaging in art, whether making, teaching, viewing or discussing, is a social and embodied action. Therefore, … More

Art Education, Art History, Contemporary Art, Coronavirus, COVID19, education resources, online learning, online teaching, pedagogy, Social Distancing, STEAM

Feminist Art Education

Judy Chicago is a contemporary pioneer of feminist art and art education. In both her practices as an artist and … More

Art Education, Art History, Chelsea Borgman, Contemporary Art, Donald Woodman, Feminism, Feminist Art, Feminist Art Education, Feminist Art Program, Gender, Judy Chicago, Melissa Leaym-Fernandez, Miriam Schapiro

Down to Earth: Extraordinary STEAM Learning

Visualizing the cosmos and our own Earthly phenomena has been a hotbed for artistic thinking and learning since the earliest … More

Anthropocene, Art Education, Brooklyn Library, Climate Change, Commons, Contemporary Art, Dario Robleto, Ecology, Mary Mattingly, Public Art, Science, Space, STEAM

Aesthetic Alphabets

The language of art is rooted in a variance of archetypes and experiential knowledge that are assigned or convey specific … More

Art Education, Art History, Chromatic Alphabet, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, Elements of Art, Language, Linguistics, Painting, Paul D'Agostino, Sociolinguistics, Vocabulary

The Fein Art of Artistic Development

Sylvia Fein has had the type of career most artists would covet, and she is still going strong at age … More

Art Education, Art History, Artistic Development, Children's Art, Henry Schaefer-Simmern, Linda Louis, Surrealism, Sylvia Fein, Viktor Lowenfeld

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