Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas

Kofi Bazzell-Smith (Art & Design), D. Nicole Campbell (Communication), Daniela Morales Fredes (Urban & Regional Planning), Adanya Gilmore (Dance), Beatriz Jiménez (Spanish and Portuguese), Ramón (Ray) Martinez (Spanish and Portuguese), Emerson Parker Pehl (English), María B. Serrano-Abreu (Educational Psychology), Toyosi Tejumade-Morgan (Theatre), Josue David Cisneros (Communication), Patrick Earl Hammie (Art and Design), and Jorge Lucero (Art and Design)

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 …