Motivated by the discussion of modern and contemporary art in Dr. Seuss's (2019) "Horse Museum," the authors sought to determine if children's picture books about visiting the art museum include contemporary art. Moreover, if so, what messages about contemporary art are sent by these books? How can teachers who rely on picture books as…

As a visual artist, the author has developed particular responses to the materials that surround her in her studio. In this article, the author considers and reflects on the relationship between objects, the artistic process, and learning within the context of ecological themes. She launches the discussion by considering how objects are…

The artwork "Insight Into Speculative Future Scenarios of Touching in a Society of Social Isolation" is based on the speculative design case "TouchBuddy" developed by Engbirk-Friis et al. (2020). It is an inquiry into how technology might mediate touching in real time in a society of social isolation. The research is…

In this article, the author shares research into five images by artists whose work responded to and helped shape the Black Power movement: Emory Douglas's "Don't Support the Greedy," Betye Saar's "The Liberation of Aunt Jemima," Barbara Jones-Hogu's "Relate to Your Heritage," Elizabeth Catlett's "Malcolm X Speaks…

How might both beginning art teachers and those who prepare them become attuned to covert aspects of teaching art in schools that often go unnoticed, but that nonetheless impact both teachers and students and have significant implications for creating more just ways of being in schools and life? And how might arts-based approaches to attunement…

I am regularly asked, "What does this have to do with art education?" or "How is this art?" For instance, I like to do a project using the ongoing exhibition, do it, which is a curatorial project that started in 1993. At that time, Hans Ulrich Obrist invited 12 artists to submit a score, or set of instructions, that would then…

Ansel Oommen, a medical technologist in New York, at the beginning of the pandemic, was sometimes working alone processing hundreds of samples from all five boroughs, Westchester, and the lower Hudson Valley. After 20 nights of physical and psychological fatigue, he just knew that he had to process his circumstances through art. This would not be…

"I don't see color; I only see children" is a statement I often hear when discussing antiracist teaching. This common statement identifies a teacher as colorblind and reflects their color-blind perspective: an assumption that race is not a factor in the classroom. With such a perspective, color-blind teachers imply that they are not…

In this article, we present the results of a collaborative research venture between Brittany, an art educator of 645 students in a rural K-2 school, and Leslie, an art educator of undergraduate and graduate students. This research began as Brittany's capstone research project in her master's degree program, with Leslie serving as her advisor.…

Activism and art have been intertwined for many years. For instance, songs including "A Change is Gonna Come" (Cooke, 1964), "We Shall Overcome" (Tindley, 1900), and "Freedom Highway" (The Staples Singers, 1965) were an important part of the Civil Rights movement. Further, protest imagery, usually in the form of…

In this article, a teacher-curator pedagogy is taken to mean an assumption of the role of both educators and curators in the planning, creation, and implementation of teaching units and lesson activities within the context of an online exhibition. For their part, students are engaged in developing the exhibitions and self-directed learning…

How can digital art--based research counter Indigenous eradication and settler replacement enacted by land-grant universities (LGUs)? How can non-Indigenous settlers ethically engage in decolonizing work? With these questions, our art-based research project emerged from a spring 2021 Pennsylvania State University (PSU) graduate seminar, Land…

In the United States, Christianity is the religion of the majority, about 70% of people. Almost 23% are unaffiliated, and slightly less than 7% practice other religions (Sandstrom, 2016). While 7% may not sound like a lot, it means that a growing number of Americans have neighbors, schoolmates, and colleagues who practice diverse, often…

Given the unavoidable prevalence of death in the world, the author writes that she finds it interesting that teachers devote little if any class time to the topic of grief. Teachers often avoid talking about recent losses, cloak death in metaphors and euphemisms, and feel discomfort around grieving students. Yet death still comes to classrooms.…

Despite the massive advances in artificial intelligence (AI) alongside the saturation of digital technologies in society, the domain of art education has experienced little change to account for the fact that humans are not the only content creators. Recent movements in art education--including but not limited to visual culture, choice-based art,…