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Category: Art History

Architecture for All

The architectural mantra, “form follows function,” is a theory that has shaped the course of how human beings design spaces … More

Ant Farm, architecture, Art Education, Contemporary Art, Dolphin Embassy, Environmental Art, form follows function, Joseph Beuys, Rudolf Steiner, Science Education

Weaving Art with Life

In 1933, John Andrew Rice founded a private liberal arts school in the small town of Black Mountain, North Carolina, … More

Art Education, Art History, art school, Black Mountain College, Education Reform, John Andrew Rice, Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa

The Beuys and the Bees

In 1961, conceptual artist Joseph Beuys was appointed professor of “monumental sculpture” at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany, where he … More

Art Education, Art History, Contemporary Art, Education, Joseph Beuys, Rudolf Steiner, Waldorf education

Utilization of Artists and Art in Societal and Environmental Maintenance

In her 1907 essay, “Utilization of Women in City Government”, renowned social reformer and influential public administrator Jane Addams wrote, … More

Agnes Denes, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Art Education, Climate Change, Contemporary Art, Education, Essential Workers, Jane Addams, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Sol Aramendi, Stop Oil

Enduring Lessons From Watts

In kindergarten was when I (and probably many others) first heard the saying “one person’s trash becomes another’s treasure.” This … More

Art Education, Art History, Black art, Black History, Elliot Eisner, Judson Powell, Los Angeles, Noah Purifoy

What Some Adults Don’t Get About Art…

I am getting quite fed up with the seemingly endless cycle of art being censored and/or attacked by misguided partisans … More

Art Education, Art History, Censorship, Contemporary Art, Education, LGBTQ, Multiculturalism, Satanic Panic, School Art

Artfully Learning Audio Series, Episode 9: Glorious Wounds

I was delighted to have the recent opportunity to speak with artist and educator Gabo Camnitzer about the past, present … More

Art Education, Célestin Freinet, collaborative learning, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Artists, Education, Gabo Camnitzer, Podcast, Teaching and Learning

Winold Reiss’ Intersectional Art Education

Winold Reiss had been more or less an obscure figure within the canon of modern European and American art and … More

Aaron Douglas, Art Education, Art History, Black History, Blackfeet Nation, Elise McDougald, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, Modern Art, Multiculturalism, Winold Reiss

The Gutai Group: Play, Pedagogy and Possibility

Mainstream Japanese culture during and in the aftermath of World War II was practically restricted to works of art that … More

Art Education, Art History, Avant-garde, Gutai Group, Japanese Art, Jiro Yoshihara, Modern Art, Playful Learning, Shozo Shimamoto, Yozo Ukita

A Meme Against Misogyny: Artfully Using Memes For Activist Inspired Art Education

It is impossible to log into a social media platform and not see a meme being posted. For a while … More

Art Education, Art History Memes, Artemisia Gentileschi, Education, Feminism, Judith Slaying Holofernes, Meme culture, Memes, She's a 10 but...

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