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 …

Genuine Imitations

Utilizing students’ pop culture interests within a larger social and cultural context is a great way to prompt them to …

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 …