You have likely heard the saying “monkey see, monkey do.” This phrase refers to how primates, a taxonomic order which … More
Category: Contemporary Art
Getting Artfully Attuned to Higher Learning
Preface: I had started writing this post prior to the great wave of uncertainty and major changes in educational policy, … More
Children’s Games
Francis Alÿs’ immersive eighteen screen video installation, Children’s Games (1999-prsent), is an exceptional example of art as an uplifting expression … More
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
Feminist Art Education
Judy Chicago is a contemporary pioneer of feminist art and art education. In both her practices as an artist and … More
Tree of Knowledge
Nature and nurture are the fundamental principles of the human condition. The debate about whether our biological disposition or our … More
Expressing our inner childlike nature…again
“Do we possess an “inner child,” our supposed original or true self? Are we the same person we were as … More
Today I Am….A School
Recognizing the importance that artistic immersion has on learning, New Rochelle High School goes above and beyond providing traditional art … More
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
Aesthetic Alphabets
The language of art is rooted in a variance of archetypes and experiential knowledge that are assigned or convey specific … More
Artfully Learning 