Pablo Helguera is a Mexican born, New York City based, socially engaged artist whose multi-disciplinary work has strong connections to … More
Category: Education
Learning to Visualize A Bright Future For Our Environment
The confluence of science, technology and art offers an array of pragmatic and creative opportunities for people to make improvements … More
Remixing the Canon
A whole curriculum around inquiry-based projects aimed at ‘remixing the canon’ would reveal how contemporary artists improvise on the Western … More
How does art express our own personal/collective identities and help us to experience more repletely?
The recently painted portraits of the Obamas, which are now enshrined in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., are … More
Participatory Learning: Artworks as Experiences
According to recent opinions and research, experiences and not objects are the preferred type of consumerism among young adults, who are … More
Intrinsic Value in Contemporary Art Collaborations…and Learning Through Them
I am thankful that I was recently introduced to the work of the Slow Art Collective through Louisa Penfold, who … More
Scrutinizing History Through Art
Historical narratives are subjective. Utilizing dates and accounts from primary sources (censuses, treaties, wars, etc.), the historian pieces together a … More
Visualizing Our Complex Identities through Art
Less than 65 years ago there were separate schools for children based upon the color of their skin. When contemporary … More
Cityscape and the personalized experience
Artists have been depicting their natural and built environments and using their surroundings as inspiration for centuries. Observing and analyzing … More
Life Lessons Through Children’s Art: How they learn to represent their world, and how that learning can teach and inspire us
The wonderful thing about children’s art is that it is detached from the socioeconomic structure of the “adult” art world … More
Artfully Learning 