Quilt making is a powerful art-centered form of collaborative learning and communicating that has significant roots in shaping many social, … More
Category: Embodied Learning
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
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
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
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
Process of Play: confronting systems of inequity through art
What are some of the most poignant memories from your childhood? I am sure that if we each assessed our … More
Representing Pittsburgh and Tehran
Pittsburgh is a great city, but not one that you might automatically think of when discussing global issues. However, the … More
Exhibiting Empathy
On any given day, we see horrible images of violence, famine, floods, habitat and environmental loss on the news or … More
