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Category: childhood art

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

Art Education, Art History, Artistic Development, Child Prodigy, Children's Art, Irving Kriesberg, Louise Fishman, Louise Nevelson, Paul Klee, Zoƫ Buckman

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

Art Education, Art History, Children's Art, Helen Levitt, play, Playful Learning, Street Art, Street Photography

TV Party: The Arts in Children’s and Adult Television Programming

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

Art Education, Art History, Arthur, John Baldessari, Museums, Piet Mondrian, Sesame Street, Television shows, The Simpsons, TV Party

Lineage Drawing

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

Art Education, Children's Art, collaborative learning, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, Dennis Oppenheim, drawing, Memory

Ancient Art Education

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

Ancient Art, Archeology, Art Education, Art History, Artistic Development, Children's Art, Onfim

What Some Adults Don’t Get About Art…

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

Art Education, Art History, Censorship, Contemporary Art, Education, LGBTQ, Multiculturalism, Satanic Panic, School Art

Summer Reading: Youth-Centered Art Publications

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

Art Education, Art Magazine, Art Publishing, Children's Art, collaborative learning, Contemporary Art, Junk Dump Magazine, Kirin, Mishou Magazine, Summer Reading

The Gutai Group: Play, Pedagogy and Possibility

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

Art Education, Art History, Avant-garde, Gutai Group, Japanese Art, Jiro Yoshihara, Modern Art, Playful Learning, Shozo Shimamoto, Yozo Ukita

Educational Complex

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

Art Education, Contemporary Art, Curriculum, Educational Policy, Mike Kelley, Teaching for Artistic Behavior, Unschooling, Youth Rights Movement

We’ve Created a Monster: An Artful Response to Electoral Integrity and the Democratic Experience

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

Art Education, Contemporary Art, Design Education, Elections, Hudson Rowan, I Voted, Political Education, Politics, Voting

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