Wicked Art Assignments

By Emiel Heijnen and Melissa Bremmer Order from Valiz Press, or at Amazon. Wicked Art Assignments: Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education was published this October. I had the pleasure of contributing an assignment from my Advanced Painting Class. This book is sharp, in full color with 100 “assignments” and several interviews with prominent artist-teachers. The assignments collected here connect to the visual arts, performance, theatre, music and design, but more importantly, they encourage cross-disciplinarity. They reflect themes and ways of working in contemporary arts, offering opportunities to learn about ourselves, the arts, and the world. The first part of …