Making Difference Audible Part 1: Unit Plan Unit Title: Contemporary Art and the Global Community: Making Difference Audible Through A Social Mobile Public Pedagogy Setting: Mobile Learning/Online (Tablet or Smartphone) Age: 14-Adult Enduring Idea: Access to studio space for artists is not always available or even practical, especially for those of lower socioeconomic status. However, […]
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AED 813 – Exploration 5: Making Visible
1% (Ab)solution 60% of my body is water. 71% of the planet is water. 844 million people worldwide don’t have access to safe, clean water. 31% of schools worldwide don’t have access to clean water. When I was a senior, only 1% of the students, faculty, staff and administration had access to drinking water via […]
AED 813 – Exploration 4: Contemporary Art Concepts
SHE ALWAYS REMEMBERS WHAT SHE NEEDS.(An Inflammatory Regender Remix) Ka-Ping Yee is the definition of an interdisciplinary artist. A quick visit to his website reveals that his interests span various modes of thought and expression. In his own estimation his work includes but is not limited to art, collaboration and hypertext, music and teaching to […]
AED 813 – Exploration 3: Public Pedagogy of Everyday Objects
Part 1: Master of My Universe Much contemporary art concentrates its focus inward in order to expose and so better understand what exists outside our collective private universes. For many artists, the concept of home is the starting point for these reflections. In his installation Seoul Home/L.A. Home/New York Home/Baltimore Home/London Home/Seattle Home (1999), Do […]
AED 813 – Exploration 2 – Public Pedagogy of Upstander Art – Part 4: Public Pedagogy of Upstander Art
Good Art Doing Good At the heart of my concerns in art education lays the art itself. Art can and should lead the way through the creation of new works and, of most import to public pedagogy, interaction with those works. After my first encounter with the work that comprises Linda Stein’s series, Holocaust Heroes: […]
AED 813 – Exploration 2 – Public Pedagogy of Upstander Art – Part 3: Empower
Tim Rollins and Kids Of Survival (K.O.S.): A Dress Rehearsal for a Wonderful Society In January 2014, I attended an event at a gallery I am affiliated with in New York. I expected the typical glad-handing, wine drinking and posturing all too common at these events. What I got was an experience that broadened my […]
AED 813 – Exploration 2– Public Pedagogy of Upstander Art – Part 2: Upstander
Lynda Rides Again! Synopsis Lynda is a brave, 9 year old Latino girl who dresses like a super hero and rides her purple bike around her neighborhood to stand up to bullies and stand up for those who are being bullied. In this episode, a boy gets punched on the playground because he is different. […]
AED 813 – Exploration 2– Public Pedagogy of Upstander Art – Part 1: Justice
Stolen Heritage (for Maria Altmann) “The Woman in Gold” is a 2014 film based on the true story of Maria Altmann and E. Randol Schoenberg who teamed up to recover a portrait of Maria’s aunt Adele by Gustav Klimt that was stolen during the Nazi incorporation of Austria. Altmann is the daughter of Marie and […]
AED 813 – Exploration 1 – Public Pedagogy Meet and Greet
Appropriating the Digital Space: Instagram as Public Pedagogy As was noted in the video, “Public Pedagogy As Visual Culture”, new media is a powerful public pedagogy. It just so happens that social media and mobile technology in art and art education are to be the focus of my culminating action research for the MPS in […]