Archive

Art Education

• Philosophy of Art Education
• "Putting POW! BAM! and ZING! in the Classroom"
• Presentation on ways for teachers to connect comic books to education from Florida Art Education Association Conference, 2003.
• "Sexism and Sexuality: Sexual Harassment in Schools and Art Education's Role"
• "Sexual Orientation in Schools: Miseducation and Art Education's Solution"
• "Gender, Race, and Schools: Inseperable"
• "Interdisciplinary Art Education and Reality"
• Notes from National Art Education Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN 2003
  • Some ideas for lessons and other useful information for teachers
• Most Recent Artist Statement
• Resume
• "I am an art teacher"...this is ok...
• My Philosophy of Education...old, but still pertinent
• "Learning the Lines"
  • Study examining how actors memroize their lines and how those methods can enhance information retention in students
• News article reporting link between image disorders and careers in art education and art

 

Unit Plans

• "Art of Architcture"
  • Multicultural unit adapted for ESOL students focusing on local architecture, global architecture, and architecture for the homeless with a collaborative project
• "Art, Vocation, and Visual Culture"
  • Lesson plans aimed at introducing students to art-related careers while sharpening criticism towards the visual world constructed around all of us
• "Artist as Storyteller"
  • Lessons plans designed to help students understand the ways artists tell stories, including illustrating literary storier, elaborating on visual images, and combining text and image

Art Papers

• "Black Romantic"
  • visuals
  • A critical exploration into the "Black Romantic: The Figurative Impulse in African-American Art" exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem. The show problematically focused on commercially successful art produced my African-American artists for a primarily African-American audience
• "Objective Chance"
  • An examination of the origins of chance in art that resulted in the Surrealist movement
• "Appropriate Trauma"
  • An investigation into the work of Jim Shaw, Raymond Pettibon, Nicole Eisenman, Karen Kilimnik, Sue Williams, amd Mike Kelley, all of which relies heavily on the appropriation of iconoclastic images to reflect an ongoing adolescent identity crisis.
• Site-specific Art ...brief
• Depictions of Women in the Art of Ancient Egypt
• "Humanity's Truth "
  • Paper discussing work of Giacometti