The Childhood Origins of Working Artists

I am a big skeptic of the cultural obsession to bestow the term “child prodigy” as a way of signifying … More

Photographing Children’s Play and Art

American photographer Helen Levitt was once considered to be “the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time.” This … More

TV Party was the name of a public-access television show based in New York City, which ran from 1978 to … More

The act of drawing takes many forms and shapes. It is the most versatile of all traditional art media because … More

In a prior post titled Artfully Ancient Learning, I analyzed an early 2022 archeological discovery of pottery fragments from Ptolemaic-era … More

I am getting quite fed up with the seemingly endless cycle of art being censored and/or attacked by misguided partisans … More

The dog days of summer are about to be behind us and for some teachers and students, that means another … More

Mainstream Japanese culture during and in the aftermath of World War II was practically restricted to works of art that … More

This might sound shocking coming from a blog about education, but I have been wondering whether compulsory education and traditional … More

There is definitely an aesthetic for patriotic art and design. Tried and true motifs such as color patterns, symbols and … More