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Contextualizing Aesthetic Value Assessments in Art Education. Examines and discusses the biases influencing
Western Society's assessment of artistic "value."
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Investigating Children's Drawing and Development in Art. By examining children's
drawings, art educators can clarify intention and instruction.
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What Happens When We Make Art? Do
humans create unique artifacts of existence as a result of hardwired
life patterns?
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Ken Aptekar: Autobiographical Artworks. Artist
Ken Aptekar explores memory through words said.
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Students Influencing Students Within The "Creativity
Lab" Environment. Students frequently
influence other students within the art classroom environment.
Whether in groups or individually, adolescents are often social
learners; art teachers who make use of constructivist approaches
may capitalize on the social nature of conversation, discussion,
and mutual mentoring that takes place in carefully designed
classroom settings.
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An Existentialist Appraisal of Standardized Testing. For thousands of years humankind
has tried to codify knowledge and knowing. It's been said that
our preoccupation with this task is what defines us and makes
us unique: one of our most precious beliefs is that we are the
only self aware organism, that we seek out and attempt to isolate
Truth. If so, we are left with a thorny problem when we consider
the acquisition of knowledge.
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Moveable Murals. Public art exists for a variety of reasons
expressions of remembrance, contemplation of place, and
celebration of identity. And while usually impressive in scale,
such works are typically fixed and stationary, their permanent
nature leaving little room for dynamic structure or form. My
studentst chose to question the nature of such artworks in a
project called "Moveable Murals."
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Macbeth: Sympathy for the Devil. A
literary and historical comparison of Shakespeare's self-damned
character to the seventeenth-century myth surrounding Lucifer's
fall from grace.
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Richard III. Reflecting upon Ian
McKellen's delightfully malignant film interpretation of the
Shakespearen classic.
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Art is Dead! Long Live Art! Discussing John Waters'
cultural and aesthetic jabs at the Art World in the film Pecker.
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Why Teach Art? A personal discussion
revolving around the compelling reasons for choosing to teach
art in primary and secondary environments.
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Autobiographical Artworks: Digitally Projected Identities. What makes you who you are? What
makes you you? This article outlines a series of lessons
that explore personal and cultural identity in which artmakers
are informed by visual culture.
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Visual Design Connections: Technology and the Artist's Hand. Computers are powerful and seductive
tools for student artmakers. How do we uncover evidence of the
"artist's hand" in digitally created artworks?
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I'll Dance At Your Wedding. A collection of short
fiction (from Anderson's 2001 book published by Diskus Publishing.)
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Almost Heaven.
Anderson's
travelogue from Venezuela (from his book, The Road to
Paradise is Paved With Bricks From Hell.)
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Shooting in a Timewarp. Anderson's
philosophical photographic travelogue of Paris (published in
CameraArts Magazine, December 2002.)
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The Road to Paradise is Paved With Bricks From Hell. Traveling to a third world country
can be wonderful...getting there can be hell. (from his book
of the same name)
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History in the Remaking.
Artisans
along the Missouri River hone nearly forgetten skills in the
"not-so-lost" arts (Published in the Tribune.)
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