Longtime readers of this blog know that I am a major proponent of play-based learning and artfully serious play (for … More
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Futurist Dreams and Artful Realities
A common foundation behind many great works of architecture is that they combine aesthetically compelling forms to create functioning structures … More
Photographing Children’s Play and Art
American photographer Helen Levitt was once considered to be “the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time.” This … More
2021 Yearblog
In the tradition of observing the impending new year and the symbolic action of making resolutions, here is something a … More
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 … More
What’s in a book?
A children’s book reaches iconic proportions when it maintains a lasting intergenerational admiration. Several well read children’s books have been … More
Fröbel’s Gifts, Noguchi’s Playgrounds
If you are not listening to the 99% Invisible podcast, I highly recommend that you start! Two of the episodes … More
The Gallery as the School?
The commercial art world is steeped in capital, class structure and consumerism, but is there any redeeming value outside of … More
Chutes and Scaffolds
In 1973, contemporary artist and elementary school art teacher, Ana Mendieta, created a performative work of art called Parachute, in … More
‘Funktional’ Art Education
I’m not a religiously observant Jew, but my Jewishness is a large part of who I am today. My realization … More
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