TeachArt.org exists to help teachers stay in touch with emerging trends in contemporary art, and bring new curriculum strategies into the classroom. It is curated by Karissa Ferrell and updated monthly. Please use this as a resource for your own projects and teaching examples. Enjoy~
Willie Cole, The Difference Between Black and White, 2005-06
(via cavetocanvas)
Shepard Fairey, Sedation Pill
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Willie Cole, Sole Brother, 2008
(via cavetocanvas)
HerCircleEzine.com is an online magazine of women’s creative arts and activism from around the globe. By celebrating artists and writers whose work addresses the social issues of our time, we strive to bring these issues to the fore, whilst reaffirming connections between art, politics, and life.
Artists and writers featured in HerCircleEzine.com use their work as a means of addressing identity, gender, ethnicity, politics, and statutes that surround and shape women’s lives, challenging us to reevaluate and re-imagine the world in which we live.
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Bio and explination of works by international artist, Emily Jacir. Themes of cultural identity, boarder-crossing, excitle and exchange contextualize her interdisciplinary art practice.
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Julie Green, 2010
For many of us, choosing our last supper on Earth is a parlor game. For some, it’s real. Here’s the story of death row prisoners’ final meals, painted one plate at a time, by Oregon artist Julie Green. Over the past decade she has painted over 500 plates and plans to continue until the death penalty is abolished.
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See Julie Green’s Website with more images of her project.
Art Education for Social Justice, an anthology featuring art initiatives and research committed to social justice, was published by the National Art Education Association this Spring and featured at a super session at the 2010 National Art Education Conference in Baltimore. We invite you to join our online forum and provide feedback regarding the content and ideas in the upcoming book as well as exchange current information concerning community projects, schools, art organizations, and research that strives to address social justice through the arts.
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TED Talks Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data — and at times vast numbers of people — and weaves them into stunning visualizations.
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(Above) International flight patterns between North America and Europe
(Above) Road and rail networks in Europe, along with underwater data cables, and communications lines.
(Above) Road and rail networks in South America
We have all seen satellite images of the Earth before, but Canadian scientist Felix Pharand Deschenes has gone one step further – using data collected through assorted government agencies, he has created a series of stunning scientific illustrations showing the far reach of the planet’s modern technology. In his words: “We see everything from paved and unpaved roads, light pollution, railways, electricity transmission lines, all the way to submarine cables, pipelines, shipping lanes and air traffic.”
