This blog outlines several ways to use collaborative art practice
to engage high school art students in current social, political or
environmental issues that are important and meaningful to them, as
a way to expand their idea of the possible in art as well as to
engender greater social connectivity in the classroom and beyond.
This blog highlights a thematic approach to art education in
ceramics, which developed out of an AP Art History curriculum. I
hope to demonstrate how larger themes (The Natural World, The Human
Body, Knowledge and Belief and Individual and Society) can empower
students to make meaningful connections between historical and
contemporary works of art and expand a sense of the possible in the
clay studio.
This blog gives visual examples of various ways contemporary art
and culture can be used to foster critical thinking / creative
problem-solving and create opportunities for young artists to
address current social and political issues in personal, meaningful
ways. This photo essay shares 20+ recent works created by artists
who are incarcerated, on probation or otherwise involved in the
juvenile justice system, in New York and Massachusetts.
This blog describes the process of implementing a collaborative
social justice art curriculum, with a focus on the issue of gun
violence, at Boston's B-SAFE program. The various stages of the
collaborative project, from ideation to final product, are
documented here.