Quilt making is a powerful art-centered form of collaborative learning and communicating that has significant roots in shaping many social,…
Life imitates art: Communicating and discovering the world IRL via video games
When the COVID-19 pandemic began and it became clear that our new reality would include social distancing and going into…
The dog did my homework
Dogs, often endearingly called “a human’s best friend,” are a longstanding popular subject for realistic and imaginative portrayals in art…
Artist see, artist do
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…
Artfully Learning 