Recognizing the importance that artistic immersion has on learning, New Rochelle High School goes above and beyond providing traditional art … More
Category: cross disciplinary
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
Strengthening Cultures & Literacy through Art for the 21st Century
In a previous post titled Connecting Culture Through Experience and Education, I described contemporary artist Pablo Helguera’s use of the … More
The Educator Who Changed How We Think About Art
John Baldessari was the type of artist who made whatever he was doing feel critical and fun. Achieving both weighty … More
Underground Education
The subway seems like one of the least likely places to be inspired in all of New York City, especially … More
Creating a paradise
What is an appropriate assessment of what makes good educators and good artists? Can the idea of being ‘good’ be … More
Artful Equations
In High School, I loathed math. I was obviously very interested and invested in art and music, and didn’t realize … More
The Artful Environmentalist
How many types of trees and plants can you identify in your local ecosystem? Do you know what specimens are … More
Labor of love: art, activism, collaborative learning
Creating art and reflecting on artwork is often a cooperative experience that supports empathic responses to lived experiences. Both the … More