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Pedagogical Globalization: Traditions, Contemporary Art, and Popular Culture of Korea - FREE e-Book

If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, where does that leave talking about visual art? You might be surprised by how immersive, expressive and image-rich these 14 art history podcasts are, through audio cues alone. Walk through museums with celebrities; examine a classical painting with an amateur — or professional — curator; and dive deep into the cultural milieu and influences that shaped an artist’s output. You’ll be sure to gain layers of perspective, depth and dimension.

1 City | 3 Days | 1,000+ Sessions | 5,000 Art Educators. Create your ideal professional learning experience at the 2018 NAEA National Convention— March 22-24, in Seattle, Washington—by choosing from 1,000+ sessions, workshops, tours, and events that will inform, engage, and inspire you! Explore this year‘s theme of Art + Design = STEAM and join with colleagues to experience Seattle—a city that thrives on creativity. This is YOUR national professional convention. It’s the largest gathering of visual arts educators in the world!

Learners of all ages can benefit from makerspaces, asserts Fred Ende, assistant director of curriculum and instructional services for Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. In this blog post, he shares how some school leaders support the maker movement.

I am a third grade teacher in an urban school district in Kansas City, Missouri. I teach in a 1:1 environment that focuses on STEAM education and Project Based Learning. Currently, the building I teach in is transitioning to a trans-disciplinary approach to instruction that will utilize a variety of…

What can we learn from artists about parenting? I’ve been surrounded by the offspring of creative people all of my life and, in my line of work, by fine artists and their children. What I’ve found is that there’s often an underlying commonality in the way artists parent. Obviously, not every child is the same, not every parent is the same, and there is no one right way to raise a family. Parenting, like making art, is a process.

If you’ve ever pushed your hands into a piece of wet clay, you’ll likely have a sense of the therapeutic properties of the material. The physicality of clay, and its vast potential for creativity, have attracted artists, artisans, and amateurs for centuries. Those practitioners have long lauded the restorative and meditative benefits of creating ceramics—and today, it’s a proven method for art therapy.

Createquity releases the Higher Education Resource Guide, a primer for incorporating Createquity resources into the college classroom. In the guide, we’ve compiled a number of our online articles that are relevant to undergraduate and graduate curricula covering the arts, arts administration, arts research, cultural policy, economics, and related topics.

The Learn by Design competition celebrates the collaboration of designers and educators in the pursuit of design-based solutions to challenges within education. Apply by November 3 to share your innovative design solutions to everyday education challenges at SXSW EDU in Austin, TX.