Essential Art for Essential Workers

In light of the pandemic’s winter wave and its continued toll on our already stressed infrastructure and personnel, I am …

Turning the Dismantling of Monuments Into Teachable Moments, Revisited

Since I wrote Turning the Dismantling of Monuments Into Teachable Moments so much has happened, so I figured that a follow …

The Fabric of a City

Jackson Heights is a bustling high density neighborhood in Queens, which is notable for having one of the most diverse …

Our Story

Our story begins in 1998, inside Liberty High School for Newcomers on Eighteenth Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. Lee …

Politics, place, performance and pedagogy

Miguel Braceli is a Venezuelan-born artist and educator, whose multidisciplinary work includes several participatory projects with students, such as Here …

An artfully inconvenient truth: Art that educates about our dire climate situation

On a recent nice warm Summer’s day, park goers at Madison Square Park could be seen soaking up the sun …

Teach them well and let them lead the way

There have been many notable artistic families throughout the history of art. Growing up alongside artistic parents can be a …

Exquisite Community

An exquisite corpse (also known as picture consequences) is a visual and literary game, initially developed by the Surrealists (Yves …

Pigeon Religion: Street Smarts via the Birds

I remember the first time I saw Tina Piña Trachtenburg (aka Mother Pigeon) and her soft-sculptures of pigeons. I was …

Art Education: The Gift that Keeps on Giving

Modern art schools have an extraordinary origin in early childhood education; most notably, the pedagogical breakthroughs of a 19th century …