Winold Reiss had been more or less an obscure figure within the canon of modern European and American art and…
Survival is Not Enough
Audre Lorde, Paulo Freire, W.E.B Du Bois, Joseph Beuys and Malcolm X walk into a classroom…This is not the start…
Art Integrated Medical Awareness and Education
In the performance, Methods of Care for the Precarious Body, multidisciplinary artist Panteha Abareshi models their body in choreographed poses…
Summer Reading: Youth-Centered Art Publications
The dog days of summer are about to be behind us and for some teachers and students, that means another…
The Gutai Group: Play, Pedagogy and Possibility
Mainstream Japanese culture during and in the aftermath of World War II was practically restricted to works of art that…
Educational Complex
This might sound shocking coming from a blog about education, but I have been wondering whether compulsory education and traditional…
We’ve Created a Monster: An Artful Response to Electoral Integrity and the Democratic Experience
There is definitely an aesthetic for patriotic art and design. Tried and true motifs such as color patterns, symbols and…
A Meme Against Misogyny: Artfully Using Memes For Activist Inspired Art Education
It is impossible to log into a social media platform and not see a meme being posted. For a while…
The Artfully Profound Impact of a Doodle
When famed modernist painter Charles E. Burchfield stated, “Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber,…
Carrying the Weight of Institutional Inaction
“Accountability” is an overarching term for describing what is required to proactively address systemic problems and grave abuses of power.…