My high school experience was largely defined by sociopolitical events. Freshman and sophomore years were book-ended by anxieties related to … More
Category: Curriculum
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
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
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
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
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
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