Hispanic Heritage Month celebration was initially celebrated for a week starting in 1968, and was expanded to a month in 1988. The great ancient civilizations of Mexico, Mesoamerica and South America ...
Read MoreAlvin Loving, Jr, was from the generation of African American artists who succeeded the Harlem Renaissance artists of the 1920s and 1930s. His generation struggled with questions of what subject m ...
Read MoreAllowing students to shape their art experience is one of the best things we can do as educators. When students put themselves out there, things happen. Embracing their unique voices is one of the bes ...
Read MoreCreating and responding to art is a visual experience. Understanding the impact that visual impairments have on a student’s ability to participate in making and engaging in art is vital. Visual ...
Read MoreEach year, I try to find fun and engaging ways to teach about famous artists, especially the ones students are particularly interested in. Most of my instruction takes a student-centered approach, whi ...
Read MoreSince the 1960s, Sylvia Plimack Mangold has developed a distinctive visual language that is grounded in figuration and transcends representation. Plimack Mangold has remained committed to an explo ...
Read MoreAlbert Oehlen was part of a German artistic movement Junge Wilde (Young Wild ones) in the 1980s, the rebelled against the conformity of “modernism” in such movements as Minimalism, Con ...
Read MoreOne of the traditions of Japanese art through the ages has been documenting the seasons and months of the year in art. My particular favorites are representations of autumn (it’s only a week awa ...
Read MoreBorn in Chicago, Richard Hunt became what is considered to have been the foremost abstract African American sculptor of the 20th century. ...
Read MoreIn the past few years, I have become very fond of Canadian modernism, particularly from the early to mid-1900s. Paul-Émile Borduas was a pivotal figure in Canadian art. He bridged modernist ten ...
Read MoreThe Civil War (1861–1865) was one of the earliest major wars that was extensively documented by the young art form of photography. William Bell started his career as a Daguerreotype photographer ...
Read MoreMartha Edelheit was active in the Women’s Art Movement of the late 1960s into the 1970s. She is known for her provocative, allegorical paintings of male and female figures, as well as for her in ...
Read MoreI have what I like to call episodes of “Beauty Attack” on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis when I’m struck by the awesomeness of an artist’s work that I never stopped to contem ...
Read MorePainter, interior designer, and ceramic artist Sarai Sherman was a Jewish American whose paintings were a combination of reality and reminiscences, producing a unique form of abstraction. ...
Read MoreHananiah Harari was both an abstract painter and a commercial artist who designed advertising campaigns and magazine covers. Never a doctrinaire abstractionist, his work went freely between geometric ...
Read MoreThe Kanō School artists—the favored group of painters for the nobility and shogunate—worked in a variety of genre, including traditional yamato-e that included bright patterns and gold lea ...
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Our new issue is out, and it's all about STUDENT VOICE & CHOICE. Art teachers foster student voice and choice, guiding them to become thoughtful artists and critical thinkers.
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