Edward Albee landed among us for a brief while at the Arts Education Collaborative organized Regional Arts Education Day. Albee was an orphan - or perhaps a changeling who was dropped into a family of privilege and power. By his...
"Life on Mars" brings to my mind questions of place. As I look forward to CI:08, considering the shows starting points like Paul Thek's view of earth from space in combination with the theme, it's all very dislocating. In a...
I have scheduled my field trip to the International with my fifth graders. Yes, personally, this is a very scary thing to bring elementary students for the first time to see an International exhibit or even approaching the idea of...
Reading several of the other posts brought back images from past Carnegie Internationals. What I cant believe is that it has been so long since i saw them. I remember as if it were yesterday the Schnabel and Kiefer paintings...
We art educators make the claim for art education that it cultivates creative habits of mind. Both experts in art education like Eliot Eisner as well as researchers in other fields like Dan Pink and Ken Robinson support this claim....
"The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmitted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like...