In the Good Company of Art Education

Good children’s television producers are able to differentiate the transfer of knowledge through programming that makes its content fun, engaging …

Book smART

“Art makes us smart.” That phrase has become a personal mantra, which I picked up as I developed greater understandings …

Strengthening Cultures & Literacy through Art for the 21st Century

In a previous post titled Connecting Culture Through Experience and Education, I described contemporary artist Pablo Helguera’s use of the …

The Fourth Grade Project

Students from around the world are the subjects and co-collaborators of an ongoing participatory artwork and educational experience titled The …

Artists as Illustrators: Promoting Visual Literacy

Visual art and literature have a great symbiotic relationship of supporting and influencing each other in profound ways. When visual …

Word! Comprehending and Expressively Exploring Written Language

When used as both object and subject (objectively and subjectively), written words open our minds to an endless array of …

Excelsior! An Educational Framework Via Comic Book Culture

Throughout his 70 year-long career, Stan Lee (1922-2018) created many of the major comic book superheroes that are known throughout …