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Tag: Visual Culture

White Gloves and Blackface

Many iconic cartoon characters in the United States have a distinctly similar aesthetic trait in common, which is large white gloves. This facet seems innocuous, but examining the cultural zeitgeist of the era these figures emerged from, reveals a more poignant narrative surrounding racial bigotry.

Animation, art, Art Education, Art History, Cartoons, Education, film, Multiculturalism, racism, Visual Culture

Art History Memes

Every so often, it’s nice to break up the more pragmatic content with some offbeat and downright silly material (see: … More

AP Art History, Art Education, Art History, Art History 101, Art History Memes, Bernie Sanders, Contemporary Art, Digital Media, Education, Humor, Memes, Support the Arts, Visual Culture

Art-fly Learning

When an errant fly found itself in the national spotlight by landing on Vice President Mike Pence’s head during the … More

Art Education, Art History, Contemporary Art, Education, Fly, Memes, Semiotics, Visual Culture, Visual Culture Education

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 … More

Animal Crossing, Art Education, Art History, Contemporary Art, Education, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, Shing Yin Khor, video games, Visual Culture

Excelsior! An Educational Framework Via Comic Book Culture

Throughout his 70 year-long career, Stan Lee (1922-2018) created many of the major comic book superheroes that are known throughout … More

Art Education, Art Spiegelman, Basquiat, Black Panther, Captain America, Chitra Ganesh, comic art, Linda Stein, Literacy, Marvel Comics, Political Cartoon, Raymond Pettibon, Socially Engaged Art, Spain Rodriguez, Stan Lee, superhero, Visual Culture, Visual Literacy, X-Men

Tapping into who we are, what we know and who we know

What is the role of the artist in today’s global and multicultural civilization? How can we make art to express … More

Art Education, Contemporary Art, dance, globalization, Intersectionality, Jeffrey Gibson, Multiculturalism, Native American Art, Visual Culture

Race, Gender, and History: An Embodied Learning Experience

Due to the presentation of the nude body, Nona Faustine’s artwork might present a challenge for the classroom teacher to … More

Body Image, Carrie Mae Weems, Embodied Learning, Feminism, Fred Wilson, Gender, History, Mickalene Thomas, Nona Faustine, Race, Slavery, Social Studies, Visual Culture

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