What can art education teach us about NURTURING Rigor, creativity, and collaboration?

While many schools espouse a desire to nurture creativity and experimentation, rarely do we look to learning communities that have a long history of putting these skills at the forefront.

In October, we’ll dig into three essential practices that are unique to art schools. We’ll explore how these methods can inspire non-art educators to reimagine rigor, creativity and collaboration:

  • Wildly creative assignments that are designed to spark the imagination rather than elicit right answers

  • Group critique, where every student in an art studio responds to each others’ work in conversation

  • PD for artists: When art students learn to become art educators, their approach to professional learning is very different from what most of us recognize as PD.

Register below with a sponsorship code or via sliding scale pricing that begins at $25. (Note: the sliding scale is an intentional effort to make inspiration as accessible as possible and to distribute resources equitably between organizations we work with.)

Guests

  • DRAW IT WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED: THE ART OF THE ART ASSIGNMENT (with Dushko Petrovich)

    Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: the Art of the Art Assignment is a unique and wide-ranging anthology featuring essays, drawings, and assignments from over 100 contributors. We’ll be joined by the editor of Draw It With Your Eyes Closed, Dushko Petrovich, who will help us explore the unique nature of art assignments.

    “The art assignment can resemble a riddle as much as a recipe, and often sounds more like a haiku, or even a joke, than a clear directive. From introductory exercises in perspective drawing to graduate-level experiments in societal transformation, the assignment coalesces ideas about what art is, how it should be taught, and what larger purpose it might, or might not, serve.”

  • RISD Black Artists And Designers (B.A.A.D.)

    RISD B.A.A.D. is a student-led creative community informing and promoting Blackness and its intersections at the Rhode Island School of Design.

    Sylvia Rodriguez of B.A.A.D. will join the Inspiration Project to talk about the practice of group critique in art schools: its advantages, hazards, and potential for K-12 classrooms.

    RISD B.A.A.D. will also respond to a film called The Room of Silence, which comments on race, marginalization and identity at RISD – particularly in critique spaces.

  • PD for artists: reimagining professional learning (with Jess Hamlin)

    Jessica Hamlin is a Clinical Professor in the Art+Education program at NYU. Her work explores the intersections between contemporary art, critical pedagogy, and public education. Jessica joins us to talk about how art students learn to be art teachers, and what all of us can take away from their approach to professional learning.

    “An advocate for a radical reimagining of art+education and teacher practice inspired by urgent social issues, relevant historical connections, and contemporary practices enacted by socially engaged and activist artists, Jessica works with K-12 classroom teachers to position schools and classrooms as sites for creative and critical exchange and community building.”