What is an American education? Because of our vast geocultural landscape, imperialism, colonialism and partisan driven policies, the answers are…
A Brief History of Children’s Art Exhibitions
The display and contextualization of youth art has a stable and wide ranging foundation in art pedagogy and museology. One…
Artful Asylum
Struggling with mental health can significantly affect how an individual develops and functions at school, home and within the community.…
What’s in a book?
A children’s book reaches iconic proportions when it maintains a lasting intergenerational admiration. Several well read children’s books have been…
Made in America
As diverse as the United States of America is, our recording and presenting of its history is not nearly as…
Character Education
A popular saying is that the best laid-plans often go awry. Despite how carefully we plan for something, there are…
Book smART
“Art makes us smart.” That phrase has become a personal mantra, which I picked up as I developed greater understandings…
Cropping Bias from the Cultural Canon
In 1939, Frida Kahlo divorced her husband Diego Rivera. As Mexico’s leading painters, they had been modern art’s power couple…
Baya Mahieddine’s Artful Expressions of Intersectional Identity
Pablo Picasso is attributed to have said “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist…
Genuine Imitations
Utilizing students’ pop culture interests within a larger social and cultural context is a great way to prompt them to…
