Reflections and Guiding Principles for Cultivating Social Imagination in the Classroom Maxine Greene’s Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change (Jossey-Bass Inc., 1995)… Read More
Stacked or melted—art made from plastic cups One way to cultivate creativity is to make art from the mundane. There is tremendous freedom in experimenting with a… Read More
How Notice & Note signposts support art appreciation and visual literacy The Lincoln Center Education’s (LCE) Capacities for Imaginative Learning emphasize authentic experiences with the arts—music, theater,… Read More
What do nonfiction reading strategies and visual literacy have in common? These seemingly strange bedfellows share meaningful instructional ground when the nonfiction reading strategies are part of… Read More
Elegant? Whimsical? Thought provoking?—Art made from toilet paper? One way to cultivate creativity is to make art from the mundane. This month’s medium is toilet paper. Last… Read More
Lincoln Center Education (LCE), the education arm of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, has created the Capacities for Imaginative Learning. Operating as both strategies for, and… Read More
Teaching is more than direct instruction. Teaching is a process of enabling. It’s a process of giving people opportunities. It’s a process of encouragement. It’s a process of inspiration and of mentoring.
— Educator, researcher, writer, and speaker, Sir Ken Robinson, author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative. Can Creativity Be Taught? (video, 6:55) introduces some of his guiding beliefs and will link you to other talks.
The rich historical and social symbolism of art made from hair One way to cultivate creativity is to make art from the mundane. There is tremendous freedom… Read More
What I love about cartooning is that I have access to two different kinds of communication. There is verbal language. I love writing. I love putting sentences together. But language remains symbolic. It has to be filtered through our brains, whereas drawing is right there. It’s immediate, you just assimilate it without having to think about it. I love having access to both kinds of communication when I tell my stories.
— Cartoonist and Graphic Memoirist, Alison Bechdel, creator of ‘Dykes to Watch Out For’ and 2014 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Recipient. In two video clips, she discusses her motivations and the affirmation of the MacArthur Foundation award (3:23) and she shares her creative and technical process (5:05).