Our story begins in 1998, inside Liberty High School for Newcomers on Eighteenth Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. Lee…
Politics, place, performance and pedagogy
Miguel Braceli is a Venezuelan-born artist and educator, whose multidisciplinary work includes several participatory projects with students, such as Here…
An artfully inconvenient truth: Art that educates about our dire climate situation
On a recent nice warm Summer’s day, park goers at Madison Square Park could be seen soaking up the sun…
Teach them well and let them lead the way
There have been many notable artistic families throughout the history of art. Growing up alongside artistic parents can be a…
Pop/Punk Pedagogy: Home is where the art is
Where would America be without the historic and contemporary contributions of men, women and children from Asian and Pacific Island…
Happy Little Accidents: Bob Ross and the Joy of Living Artfully
Note: this post discusses the recently released Bob Ross documentary on Netflix, so there may be some minor spoilers. However,…
Lessons In Critical Race Theory From the Arts
It seems like almost every school-related matter that we read or hear about these days involves a debate on Critical…
Fun enough for kids, but made for grownups
How does a play-date for adults sound to you? I am talking about kind we had as kids with activities…
Experiential Education for an Intersectional Internet
Vast numbers of individuals and communities were already experiencing a sense of social, cultural and somatic disconnect prior to the…
When schools are not schools
Indoctrination is not education, yet so-called “schools” throughout the colonial history of the United States and Canada have had a…
Artfully Learning 