Last month, ART21 hosted an intricately interdisciplinary affair: Creative Chemistries: Radical Practices for Art + Education, a conference designed to probe the intersections of art and education. Jessica Hamlin, ART21’s director of educational initiatives, and Joe Fusaro, the organization’s senior education advisor, outlined some of the questions the event sought to tackle in an article for ART21 Magazine:
Next month, educators at close to 100 schools across the country will pilot new national art standards for education. The trial project will be conducted in elementary and middle schools throughout the first half of this year and in high schools during 2016.
(via NYC Pledges $23 Million to Arts Education in 2015)
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña announced on Tuesday their plan to put $23 million toward hiring 120 new arts teachers and boosting arts resources in public schools across the city. The plan uses additional money from this year’s budget to guarantee the growth of arts programs in 2015.
(via South Carolina Legislature Penalizes Colleges for Teaching Gay-Themed Books)
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has approved an item in the state’s 2014–15 budget that forces two public colleges to spend a combined nearly $70,000 on teaching the US Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and the Federalist papers as punishment for assigning students “gay-themed books,” the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.
Obama Loves Art History but Thinks It’s (Economically) Useless
A man looks at Richard Avedon’s portrait of President Obama (photo by Flickr user Mr_CRO)
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SVA’s Contemporary One-Year Masters Degree Program in Digital Photography
Maryana Hordeychuk, MPS Digital Photography Thesis Project
Pursuing a Masters Degree requires the…
The End of a Free Cooper Union
Today, a representative of the Cooper Union board announced that they will be reducing all scholarships by 50% for next year.
Eleven Cooper Union students have barricaded themselves within the school’s Foundation Building clock tower since noon on December 3rd in protest of the administration’s plan to begin charging tuition for graduate studies for the first time in 110 years. Read our coverage of the protests so far here, here, and here.
Allan Rohan Crite, “School’s Out” (1936)
It’s interesting to consider this painting with Winslow Homer’s “Snap the Whip” (1872), as both depict very active social environments right outside of school settings. While so many of us associate the end of the school year with a kind of joyous freedom (not dissimilar to the tone of the movie “Dazed and Confused”), these paintings make me think of the other kinds of education we receive from schools that go beyond books and chalkboards – educations of social and physical behavior, games and attitudes that will be played out again and again for years, if not whole lives. There are just so many different relationships going on in this painting, so much activity, that remind me of all the other things we’re constantly being taught, school or no school. Click through for a larger version of the painting.
