The Drag Educational Model, Where Learning is Not a Drag

For a while now, drag has been caught in the crosshairs of the raging culture wars. The religious right and … More

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

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

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

When famed modernist painter Charles E. Burchfield stated, “Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, … More

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Public Art Dialogue on 17 May … More

Usually when I visit my parents, my mother will lay out a variety of materials on the bed in my … More

Pablo Picasso is attributed to saying that, “When I was a child, I could draw like Raphael, but it took … More