Teaching with Contemporary Art

Articles in Teaching with Contemporary Art offer ideas for incorporating artists, films, and themes into your teaching.

How Can You Use Your Voice?

Teaching with Contemporary Art

How Can You Use Your Voice?

by Alicia Gifford

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Small Revolutions

by Nathan Asplund
September 24, 2026

2026 Art21 Educators Summer Institute

by Makda Amdetsyon
July 29, 2026

This Is Not a Lesson Plan: Teaching with Conceptual Art

by Genavie Williams
May 15, 2026

Combatting Boredom

by Nathan Asplund
April 16, 2026

I Have No Idea: Ideation as an Intentional Practice

by Genavie Williams
February 13, 2026

Observation as a Radical Act

by Julia Soderholm
January 16, 2026

Craft Labor

by Makda Amdetsyon
December 12, 2025

Sound & Performance: Exploring performance art in elementary school

by Julia Soderholm
November 19, 2025

Artist/Educator: AKA “My Two Full-Time Jobs”

by Gregg Emery
October 23, 2025

Building a Foundation for the Belief in Contemporary Art

by Gregg Emery
September 30, 2025

A World Outside of Ourselves: Chinese Diaspora

by Sasha Spare
August 26, 2025

A Constellation of Quiet Power

by Sasha Spare
July 22, 2025

Interdependence and Access in a Middle School Art Classroom

by Sonia D’Agnese
June 20, 2025

Experimenting with Socially Engaged Art

by Sonia D’Agnese
May 15, 2025

Craft and Contemporary Art

by Makda Amdetsyon
April 25, 2025

Deepening Connections with Cross-Curricular Collaboration

by Nikki Sandschaper
March 7, 2025

Crafting Conversation

by Birra-li Ward
January 17, 2025

Materials + Environmentalism

by Birra-Li Ward
December 17, 2024

What’s Your Artistic Practice? How Art21, Curating, and Jorge Lucero Made Me Feel Like an Artist Again

by Amy Jackson
November 25, 2024

There is no finish line for creativity…

by Amy Jackson
October 23, 2024

Young Pedagogical Thinkers: A Year of Self-Discovery

by Kandice Stewart
September 20, 2024

Connections Across Space & Time: Rethinking AP Art History

by Kandice Stewart
August 22, 2024

Thinking and Talking About Curiosity

by Joe Fusaro
July 26, 2024

Channeling Rage into Artistic Action

by Jess Perry-Martin
June 18, 2024

Begin Again

by Mary Goldthwaite
May 2, 2024

Illuminating projects for deeper understanding

by Steven Speciale
March 21, 2024

The Alchemy of Extending Classroom Art Projects

by Steven Speciale
January 23, 2024

Unveiling the Power of Persona

by Lizz Denneau
December 8, 2023

Artist as Archivist

by Lizz Denneau
November 16, 2023

Creating Communities of Care in the Early Childhood Art University Classroom

by Jess Perry-Martin
October 13, 2023

Taking the Implicit and Making it Explicit

by Amber Arnold
September 29, 2023

2023 Art21 Educators Summer Institute

by Emma Nordin
September 26, 2023

Can’t Funeral

by Amber Arnold
August 22, 2023

Redefining Success

by Sarah Ceurvorst
July 20, 2023

Objects Carry Meaning

by Ashley Rowland
June 16, 2023

Teaching with Global/Local Connections

by Amiko Matsuo
June 12, 2023

The World is Yours

by Alex Mendez
May 19, 2023

Listen to This! (Films to Listen To… Before You Watch)

by Joe Fusaro
May 8, 2023

Unlearning with Contemporary Art

by Sarah Ceurvost
April 21, 2023

Look at This! (Films to Watch with the Sound Off)

by Joe Fusaro
April 10, 2023

Finding Contemporary Artists for the Classroom — An Entry Point

by Jennifer Bockerman
March 24, 2023

Encouraging Media Exploration & Meaning Through Contemporary Art

by Jennifer Bockerman
February 24, 2023

A Year’s Worth of ‘Outcomes’ were centered around ‘Place’

by Amiko Matsuo
January 27, 2023

The Art of Connecting

by Amiko Matsuo
December 8, 2022

Creating authentic connections using Big Questions in my classroom

by Thomas Dareneau
November 11, 2022

Teaching with Collaboration

by Andrea Mancuso
October 21, 2022

Building Confidence and Community Through Rethinking Classroom Critiques

by Thomas Dareneau
October 14, 2022

Artwork as Kinship: Together We Will See It Through

by Andrea Mancuso
September 16, 2022
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