Introduction As digital technologies reshape art and learning, Computational Creativity—the use of algorithmic systems to generate, augment, or inform creative work—is now central to contemporary arts education. This essay defines the field, gives concrete classroom-ready applications, addresses operational ethics, and proposes assessment and policy steps so schools can thoughtfully adopt computational practices without sacrificing equity, … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Computational Creativity in Schools: A Practical, Ethical, and Pedagogical Rewrite. (a.k.a. Exploring Computational Creativity: Bridging Art and Technology, v.2)
The. Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Naked Clay: Ceramics without a Glaze by Jane Perryman
Jane Perryman’s Naked Clay arrives as both manifesto and love letter: a careful, persuasive case for the expressive potency of unglazed ceramics and a sustained meditation on what a surface — left deliberately “bare” — reveals about process, place, and person. The book is at once practical and philosophical, moving between shop-floor particulars (clay bodies, … Continue reading The. Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Naked Clay: Ceramics without a Glaze by Jane Perryman
Revisionist Pedagogy – Generative Art and Visual Arts Education: an essay for curricular reform (Exploring the Intersection of Art and Algorithms: A Perspective Analysis of Generative Art, v.2)
Generative Art — where algorithmic rule-sets, chance operations, and computational models meet studio practice — offers a productive frontier for reforming visual arts education. This essay unpacks Generative Art’s historical roots, theoretical foundations, and contemporary significance with the explicit aim of showing how curricular integration can cultivate computational thinking, creative agency, and critical literacy about … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Generative Art and Visual Arts Education: an essay for curricular reform (Exploring the Intersection of Art and Algorithms: A Perspective Analysis of Generative Art, v.2)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman
Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman’s No One Here Gets Out Alive is less a dispassionate life-history than a rite of remembrance: a fevered, piecemeal canonization of Jim Morrison that helped turn an already mythic rock singer into a modern Prometheus of American pop-culture. First published in 1980, the book occupies a peculiar position between popular … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden: Making Pots, Planters, Birdbaths, Sculpture More by Sherri Warner Hunter
Sherri Warner Hunter’s Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden invites readers into a world where the utilitarian meets the poetic, transforming raw cement into vessels of whimsy and wonder. Hunter, a seasoned artisan and educator, structures the book as both a technical manual and a meditation on the sculptural possibilities of a humble medium. At once precise … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden: Making Pots, Planters, Birdbaths, Sculpture More by Sherri Warner Hunter
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Robbin Hopper Ceramics: A Lifetime of Works, Ideas and Teachings by Robin Hopper
Robin Hopper’s memoir-cum-manual stands as a singular achievement in contemporary ceramics literature, marrying the reflective tone of autobiography with the precision of a practical studio guide. From the first chapter, Hopper situates his personal narrative within the broader arc of postwar craft movements, offering a nuanced perspective on how the tides of modernism, folk traditions, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Robbin Hopper Ceramics: A Lifetime of Works, Ideas and Teachings by Robin Hopper
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – 101 Kids Activities That Are the Bestest, Funnest Ever!: The Entertainment Solution for Parents, Relatives, and Babysitters by Holly Homer and Rachel Miller
Holly Homer and Rachel Miller’s 101 Kids Activities That Are the Bestest, Funnest Ever! reads like a manifesto for the revival of unstructured play, a bold rejoinder to the regimented schedules and screen-centric routines common in twenty‑first‑century childhood. At first glance, the exuberant title—with its intentional grammatical liberties (“bestest,” “funnest”)—signals an authorial choice to privilege the’s child’s-eye … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – 101 Kids Activities That Are the Bestest, Funnest Ever!: The Entertainment Solution for Parents, Relatives, and Babysitters by Holly Homer and Rachel Miller
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – 500 Chairs: Celebrating Traditional & Innovative Designs by Ray Hemachandra
500 Chairs: Celebrating Traditional & Innovative Designs, edited by Ray Hemachandra, offers both the aficionado and the casual reader a panoramic survey of seating as a sculptural, functional, and cultural artefact. Structured into thematic chapters—ranging from “Frameworks of Form” to “Innovations in Materiality”—the volume showcases five centuries of chair design, from the humble Windsor to … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – 500 Chairs: Celebrating Traditional & Innovative Designs by Ray Hemachandra
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – 500 Vases: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Form by Ray Hemachandra
Ray Hemachandra’s 500 Vases: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Form situates the humble vase at the intersection of functional craft and high art. By juxtaposing a broad array of contemporary practitioners—from established maestros to emerging voices—Hemachandra underscores the vase’s enduring capacity to inspire innovation. As a reference work, it collects photographic documentation of five hundred distinct forms … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – 500 Vases: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Form by Ray Hemachandra
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – 500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form,” edited by Veronika Alice Gunter
“500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form,” edited by Veronika Alice Gunter, is an ambitious compendium that seeks to investigate one of the most enduring subjects in art— the human figure—through the tactile and revelatory medium of clay. In assembling the work of five hundred contemporary ceramicists from around the world, Gunter … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – 500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form,” edited by Veronika Alice Gunter
The New Renaissance Mindset 