by Lizz Denneau

When most of my students come to me, their understanding of art has been formed to fit a homogenized construct of how art manifests in the world. Often, they have yet to learn that art could look like something other than a painting on a traditional canvas or a sculpture carved in marble. My job […]

Whether it be the family that raised them or they created later on, family matters seep into artwork.

by Ty Talbot

During the long, odd, Zoom-filled first days of the pandemic’s arrival in Seattle, I thought about how the traditional art classroom is not always the most ideal place for making art, especially contemporary art. Students usually come to the art room and find traditional art-making tools and materials: paints, brushes, pencils, pens, paper, canvas, and […]

Like all people, artists grapple with the definition and memory of home.

Speaking with Art21 founder Susan Sollins in New York City in August 2008, Carrie Mae Weems meditates on the photographers who influenced her work and how she constructs an image.

by Jeannine Bardo

Educator-in-Residence Jeannine Bardo introduces lessons from her third-grade unit on “Home,” in which students’ research is centered on facets of their community: themselves, their family, and their friends.

by Joseph Iacona

Educator-in-Residence Joseph Iacona’s students embark on a project of self-discovery, inspiring them to feel hopeful about themselves and their future while protecting their identities.

by Dennis Greenwell

Art21 Educator Dennis Greenwell shares how a project on empathy helped his students better understand one another and our current political landscape.

by Joseph Iacona

Educator-in-Residence Joseph Iacona shares the impact socially engaged artists have in classrooms with trauma-impacted students.

by Nettrice Gaskins

Nettrice Gaskins examines the ongoing crisis of representation in cultural institutions, ultimately arriving at what she sees as a “polyculturalist” future for art, in which it moves away from dialectical identity politics to a sphere of fluid identities.

On the eve of the unveiling of the artist’s 2008 project, Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment, at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Carrie Mae Weems discusses her background in dance, the role of other women’s bodies in her work, and the ongoing performative thread in her photographs and films.