The Condition of Art Education: Defining the Field and its Distinct Territories.
The following material is intended as a starting point for expanding discussions, collaborations, and research for the field of Art Education. Much of this document reviews personal and historical influences whilst restating existing ideas in the disciplinary literature. We have attempted to articulate a [...]

The visual and material culture of outsiders—bikers, tattooers, carnies, and others—tends to orbit around, participate in, and influence aspects of the fine arts.

There is little evidence that the land US Route 90 travels though as it arcs from El Paso to Marfa (Population: 2,121) is not the fabled middle of nowhere. That is, almost no evidence.

My research into the museum’s permanent collection is largely aimed at providing helpful context for each of the artists and artworks that are represented.

I see fine art photography as hemmed in by three ‘P’s: painting, poverty, and Pentax.

For centuries graffiti has claimed visual space throughout cities, impudently besmirching society’s accreted attempts at organizing itself.

Ten years ago, I was looking for a way to understand what life inside prison was like. My brother was locked up in Texas and he refused to let me visit.

Although online literary magazines have always been more accessible than print ones, it wasn’t until after 2001 that the quantity and quality began to dwarf print magazines.

Our national narrative holds many more flattering examples of what defines us as a people. Over the past seven years, for example, we’ve billed ourselves as bearers of Democracy to the rest of the globe.

The type of signs, billboards, historical markers and monuments that dominate public space inform us greatly about the culture and the politics that we live under.

The history of early twentieth architecture is replete with innovations in building technology, especially in sometimes experimental industrial housing developments.

I am a chronically sleep-deprived art teacher in a Chicago public school, and it’s been a tense two weeks…

For more than thirty years, a close relation of mine has worked in the shipping and receiving department of a non-unionized factory in Pennsylvania.

Technically a neighborhood in the city of East Chicago, Marktown lies just over the Illinois/Indiana state border along East 129th street.

Over the past twenty years, Rotterdam has emerged as one of the lesser-known cultural capitals of Europe.

Ruffenhofen is one of those places that, after 1400 years of settlement and development, remains a handful of houses and fields.

Can you imagine being in a community where being an artist is considered an honest and valued career choice? I am pleased to say I have found that community…

Some years ago, the city of Hamburg discovered that it could promote itself through its cool subcultural scene, which visual artists are an important part of.

“I hope the Secret Shop becomes a big secret.”

Outside of the Russian mafia, the Icelandic Artist wields a lot of power here.

Tokyo & The Presentation of Art in Unusual Places

Each year Oberhausen transforms into a gathering place for film and video…

Searching for Art in the Land of Curds and Beer.

This essay examines one collective, the Pocho Research Society (PRS) that has done just this by dedicating their practice to altering existing monuments…

Other Options attempts to identify artists’ practices, which critique these old paradigms, and the infrastructures that support them, while …