By Heidi C. Powell, Associate Professor of Art Education & Director of Master of Arts in Art Education Online Across Iceland, Denmark and the wider Nordic region, folk high schools (often framed as schools for life) have long offered a distinct educational promise: communal, story-driven learning that is oriented toward… Read more >
Heidi C. Powell and Kasey Power If you’ve ever followed an artist residency on social media — those studio snapshots, experiments in progress, the most honest of moments aren’t the polished outcomes; they are the late-night breakthroughs, and the “this is not working.” This is exactly why it’s interesting and… Read more >
Written By Heidi C. Powell Visual art education is in the middle of a productive shake up. As AI tools make “making” easier, our job is to make thinking more visible by having students conceptualize, have conscious intent, explore process, foster critique, and author meaning. AI isn’t in opposition to… Read more >
When the British street artist known as Banksy opened an online store called Gross Domestic Product, he issued a challenge: to make a purchase from the shop’s selection of items like a Banksy-branded aerosol paint can, a brick handbag, and a vest worn in concert by the rapper Stormzy. Customers… Read more >
I won’t sugar coat it—teaching is hard, and teaching during a pandemic is even harder. Art teachers and students everywhere are finding themselves in unique and challenging situations—some teaching and learning online, some in person, some traveling on a mobile “art cart”, and some are teaching in all of these… Read more >
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