Autobiographical Artworks: Digitally Projected Identities. What makes you who you are? What makes you you? This article outlines a series of lessons that explore personal and cultural identity in which artmakers are informed by visual culture.
Visual Design Connections: Technology and the Artist’s Hand. Computers are powerful and seductive tools for student artmakers. How do we uncover evidence of the “artist’s hand” in digitally created artworks?
Contextualizing Aesthetic Value Assessments in Art Education. Examines and discusses the biases influencing Western Society’s assessment of artistic “value.”
Investigating Children’s Drawing and Development in Art. By examining children’s drawings, art educators can clarify intention and instruction.
What Happens When We Make Art? Do humans create unique artifacts of existence as a result of hardwired life patterns?
Ken Aptekar: Autobiographical Artworks. Artist Ken Aptekar explores memory through words said.
Students Influencing Students Within The “Creativity Lab” Environment. Students frequently influence other students within the art classroom environment. Whether in groups or individually, adolescents are often social learners; art teachers who make use of Constructivist approaches may capitalize on the social nature of conversation, discussion, and mutual mentoring that takes place in carefully designed
classroom settings.
An Existentialist Appraisal of Standardized Testing. For thousands of years humankind has tried to codify knowledge and knowing. It’s been said that our preoccupation with this task is what defines us and makes us unique: one of our most precious beliefs is that we are the only self aware organism, that we seek out and attempt to isolate Truth. If so, we are left with a thorny problem when we consider the acquisition of knowledge.
Moveable Murals. Public art exists for a variety of reasons expressions of remembrance, contemplation of place, and celebration of identity. And while usually impressive in scale, such works are typically fixed and stationary, their permanent nature leaving little room for dynamic structure or form. My students chose to question the nature of such artworks in a project called “Moveable Murals.”
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