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Electronic Visualization and the Arts

Just as the TC library took down its data visualization exhibit a few weeks ago, Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science professor Chris Sula was winning best paper for his paper "Quantifying Culture: The Value of Visualization inside (and outside) Libraries, Museums, and the Academy" at the Electronic Visualization and the Arts 2012 …

Posted 9 months ago by Leanora Lange

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Lea, have you read the paper…

Resources for A&HA 5922: Master’s Seminar in Art Education (INSTEP)

This virtual research guide has been created for students in Dr. Razia Sadik's A&HA 5922 Master’s Seminar in Art Education (INSTEP). The resources listed should be relevant for students at any stage of the INSTEP program, from those formulating their thesis ideas to those completing their Master's Special Project. This guide was created by Allen Foresta …

Posted 10 months ago by Leanora Lange

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Reanimation and MoMA

The Reanimation Library collects old, out of print, and out-of-circulation books specifically for the use of artists and writers looking for odd or quirky materials to assimilate into their art.  This is, perhaps, the coolest mission statement for a library I can think of (and a great place for de-accessioned library books to die). …

Posted 15 months ago by Anne Hays

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Library Your Way Around Town, Part 2

Another weekend, another library. After sampling delicious food at Smorgasburg with friends (the more friends you bring, the more things you can try), we moseyed on over to the Brooklyn Art Library (103A N. 3rd Street, Williamsburg). The library is an extension of Art House and includes art supplies, vintage books that you can buy, …

Posted 19 months ago by arstessen

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It's nice to see the inside of this library, which I've never visited…

Children and Their Art: Art Education for Elementary and Middle Schools

Title: Children and Their Art: Art Education for Elementary and Middle Schools Authors: Michael Day and Al Hurwitz Publisher: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 9 edition (January 1, 2011) Call Number: N362 .D39 2011 From the Publisher: A trusted guide and companion for current and future art educators, CHILDREN AND THEIR ART presents a professional approach to teaching art consistent with national …

Posted 19 months ago by Diana

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The Novel: An Alternative History

Title: The Novel: An Alternative History (Beginnings to 1600) Author: Steven Moore Publisher: Continuum, 2011 Call Number: PN3451 .M66 2010g From the Publisher: Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to …

Posted 20 months ago by alex

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Beautiful Pain – My Favorite Albums of 2011 (So Far!)

This year has already inspired a lot of great music.  I decided I would write about my five favorite albums of 2011 (so far).  Not that I am by any means an authority on what “great music” constitutes.  But if you have a weakness for beautiful lyrics or just simply songs that are so …

Posted 21 months ago by Diana

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oh fun…

Tattoo or not to Tattoo: The body as canvas

I find myself engrossed with tattoos these days - I see it everywhere I go; on the subway, the bus, sidewalks, magazines, television...everywhere - and I sigh.  I want one, and I am entranced. Why do they do it? Why tattoo ALL over your body? Is it celebration? Is it art? Is it sacrilege? So many …

Posted 22 months ago by marcelle mentor

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I love tattoos…

Library Resources for A&HA 4085, Historical Foundations of Art Education

This virtual handout is intended as an overview of library resources and services of particular relevance for Professor Ami Kantawala's Fall 2011 course A&HA 4085, Historical Foundations of Art Education. The resources, primarily electronic but also some print, have been selected to support the objectives of …

Posted 22 months ago by Allen Foresta

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Art for Social Change

I'll admit it, I failed miserably at imparting my enthusiasm for art in my classroom.  I truly hated that about myself as a teacher.  If only I knew what I know now, I would have read more books about art in the classroom, asked people more questions, and made more time so that my students …

Posted 25 months ago by Veronica

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Creative Food for Thought

Have you registered yet for the Department of Arts and Humanities' Creativity, Imagination, and Innovation in Education Symposium at Teachers College, April 28th-29th? The Gottesman Libraries is hosting a full calendar of events related to—and leading up to—the symposium. To spark interest in the "intrinsic value of creativity and imagination in education," we'll feature: Poetry Day, a "read …

Posted 26 months ago by Brian Hughes

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I saw the content of the video as an example of how everything we do requires some kind of creativity, whether it is cooking, or doing an experiment…

Privatizing Culture: Corporate Art Intervention Since the 1980’s

Title: Privatizing Culture: Corporate Art Intervention Since the 1980’s. Author: Chin-Tao Wu Publisher: Verso (May 2002) Check it out: N5207 .W83 2002 From the publisher:  The dirty little secret of the art world today lies far hidden from its everyday internecine controversies, uniting everyone from the most "subversive" installation artist to the snootiest tiara-sporting socialite: …

Posted 28 months ago by Alexander

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Makings of the Sea

Title: On Mediterranean Aesthetics, Volume 1: Makings of the Sea Author: John Baldacchino Publisher: Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press © 2010 Check it out: DE60 .B35 2010 From the publisher: Engaging with 20th century Mediterranean visual and performing arts, literature and music, this book invites the reader to consider how everyday aesthetics inhabit and define the …

Posted 29 months ago by addie

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Blocks and beyond : strengthening early math and science skills through spatial learning

Title: Blocks and beyond : strengthening early math and science skills through spatial learning Author: Mary Jo Pollman Publisher: Baltimore : Paul H. Brookes Pub. Co., c2010. Check it out: QA11.2 .P596 2010 From the Publisher: Spatial development should be part of every young child's education—it's linked with higher achievement not just in math and …

Posted 29 months ago by roderick

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Learning by Doing

Background I know Jace Clayton through my wife, who is also a musician. Jace has been DJ-ing for over 20 years. When I interviewed him I thought it was really interesting that DJ-ing, for him, was both a personal and social activity. Jace learned how to DJ through one session with a friend and from …

Posted 30 months ago by Yana Kehrlein

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Do it Yourself

Background I met Caroline Paquita while living in Gainesville, Florida. I wanted to capture the way she learned how to play bass and how it relates to how she learned to create art. Caroline’s style and ethos is very do-it-yourself and I think she has some interesting things to say about the dedication necessary to …

Posted 30 months ago by Melanie Hibbert

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“Makings of the Sea”

If we follow the light of Albert Camus and use the sea as a metaphor, we explore how “aesthetics inhabit and define the Mediterranean as a common cultural horizon founded on difference.” Maltese-born author  John Badacchino provides a wonderfully rich and inspiring talk on Makings of the Sea: Journey, Doubt, and Nostalgia (Gorgias Press, 2010), …

Posted 31 months ago by Jennifer Govan

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Incidental Art

My eye catches the tips of the dark mountains on the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela, and in a blink I find myself gazing at the shanty towns hugging their sides– an imperfect pyramid of white, orange, and gray rectangles dotted by an occasional tree, smoky green under the smog and burning heat of the equator. …

Posted 31 months ago by Jennifer Govan

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Talking Tech: “Kids, Interactivity, and Creativity”

Content needs a learning message, and it is our job as educators to make it engaging and hopefully inspirational – in more creative words, ishful. A dog does not need to look like a dog, but can look “doggish.” You can learn animation in a snap,  math and reading with the help of a green-eyed, …

Posted 31 months ago by Jennifer Govan

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Defining Art, Creating the Canon

Defining art, creating the canon: artistic value in an era of doubt Author:  Paul Crowther Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 Check It Out:  EBOOKS From the Publisher: What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is …

Posted 33 months ago by Julia Martin

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