Time, Money, & Respect: The Very Real Challenges, Roadblocks, & Hurdles Public School Teachers Face
Public school teachers in the United States face a mountain of obstacles in their daily dedication to our students and future. Year in and year out, public school teachers and Principals face significant challenges when it comes to the various factors making their job harder than they should and...
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The rich imagery of a Kerry James Marshall painting is full of color, emotion, and memory. Each new piece he creates embraces blackness as a signifier of difference, to explore the relationship of black people to American identity, the lack of black people as subjects or creators in the...
Nov 24, 2023
Nina Chanel Abney’s bold, colorful, and graphic paintings are a sort of contemporary fusion between Cubism and Pop Art. Her flat expanses of super-pigmented color, eye-popping patterns, and super-stylized figures combine to create a highly unique style, where Abney explores issues of race, gender, and homophobia. Abney’s work is...
Nov 14, 2023
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How Principals Can Supercharge Their Elementary School Arts Program and Support Students and Families
It is no secret that arts education has been on the decline in recent years. With schools facing budget cuts and an emphasis on standardized testing, many arts programs have been scaled back or eliminated altogether. And as Principals, you’re doing everything you can to enrich the school experience,...
Nov 13, 2023
Last week we had a blast delivering our Screenprinting Workshop to a group of students at Edison Park Elementary (CPS) on Chicago’s northwest side. Luckily for everyone involved, we were provided with a beautiful, sunny day that allowed us to set up outside, right by the curb, and make...
Nov 07, 2023
Vik Muniz’s photography embraces the painterly and sculptural with his unique process. He uses unconventional materials and found objects to create expressive images that often reference the work of the Old Masters, which he then photographs. Muniz’s pieces use anything from chocolate syrup to dust to diamonds to compose...
Nov 04, 2023
A company’s ROI is important, at the end of the day you need to be profitable. There are many factors that contribute to a company’s ROI as it pertains to the ways they spend on employee engagement, and art, events, and office design are three powerful tools that can...
Oct 30, 2023
Lorna Simpson is a multimedia artist best known for her black and white images displayed next to expressive and poetic snippets of text and her detailed collages featuring black women with fantastical hairdos. Simpson’s art is ambiguous, leaving space for imagination and deeper consideration. She delves deeply into identity,...
Oct 25, 2023
The field of art history is always evolving, and only very recently has the issue of representation, and diversity in curation been discussed in earnest. What’s more, curators are constantly finding new artists, both alive and in history, whose contributions shouldn’t be overlooked. While European artists have long been...
Oct 16, 2023
You’ve probably seen Barbara Kruger’s iconic black and white images overlaid with white-on-red text, loudly proclaiming uncomfortable truths about mass media, beauty standards, and power. Her word art is meant to provoke questions, interrogate assumptions, and challenge viewers to be more critical of advertising and mass media. Her pieces...
Oct 15, 2023TRENDING
All works of art create change and push already existing ideas in new directions and into new dimensions. However, there’s some art works that burst into existence at just the right moment, fueled by a changing world, a visionary mind, or a powerful new collective movement. These...
Oct 18, 2021
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FREE Art Activity + 18 Art Lesson Plans From the IPaintMyMind Arts Education Curriculum and Resource Guide
It’s a strange time for sure, and with the wide range of approaches to reopening schools that is happening nationwide, it’s clear that teachers, parents, families, and all the adults that support children will be looking for new ways to bridge this social gap. IPaintMyMind has been...
Aug 29, 2020
The struggle of being an art teacher includes a unique blend of external doubt and internal friction. Art teachers share the same classroom and behavioral challenges that other elementary and secondary educators face while combating a similar stigma that troubles humanities departments across higher education–a skepticism about its value...
Feb 17, 2020