You have likely heard the saying “monkey see, monkey do.” This phrase refers to how primates, a taxonomic order which…
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,…
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…
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,…
Feminist Art Education
Judy Chicago is a contemporary pioneer of feminist art and art education. In both her practices as an artist and…
Tree of Knowledge
Nature and nurture are the fundamental principles of the human condition. The debate about whether our biological disposition or our…
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…
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…
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…
Aesthetic Alphabets
The language of art is rooted in a variance of archetypes and experiential knowledge that are assigned or convey specific…
Artfully Learning 