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…
The Fein Art of Artistic Development
Sylvia Fein has had the type of career most artists would covet, and she is still going strong at age…
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…
The Educator Who Changed How We Think About Art
John Baldessari was the type of artist who made whatever he was doing feel critical and fun. Achieving both weighty…
Shaping Minds: Form follows Function
One of the most precious aspects of visual art, is its ongoing dialogue. Generations upon generations have been inspired by…
Underground Education
The subway seems like one of the least likely places to be inspired in all of New York City, especially…
Creating a paradise
What is an appropriate assessment of what makes good educators and good artists? Can the idea of being ‘good’ be…
Artful Equations
In High School, I loathed math. I was obviously very interested and invested in art and music, and didn’t realize…
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