Irene Poulton’s Fired Up with Raku: Over 300 Raku Recipes reads, at first glance, like a practical compendium; read closely, it reveals itself as a meditation on the paradox at the heart of raku work — the persistent human desire to name, measure, and reproduce a process whose aesthetic power depends on chance. She gives … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Fired Up with Raku: Over 300 Raku Recipes. by Irene Poulton
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The 20th Century Art Book from Phaidon Press
Phaidon's The 20th Century Art Book presents itself as an atlas of modernity: a compact compendium that tries, with admirable audacity, to put the century’s dizzying artistic revolutions into the reader’s hands. It is not a monograph, nor an exhaustive history; it is a curator’s pocket guide, a series of literary vignettes paired with image-plates, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The 20th Century Art Book from Phaidon Press
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Art Book from Phaidon Press
Phaidon’s The Art Book is not a book that seeks to be read from first page to last as a single sustained argument; it is an atlas of encounters. Its achievement is simple and ambitious at once: to compress the dizzying plurality of visual practice into a portable, democratic form. The editors do not attempt … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Art Book from Phaidon Press
Revisionist Pedagogy – Computational Creativity in Schools: A Practical, Ethical, and Pedagogical Rewrite. (a.k.a. Exploring Computational Creativity: Bridging Art and Technology, v.2)
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 – Exploring the Nexus of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in Visual Arts Education, v.2
Introduction Traditional studio practices remain indispensable for learning material, mark-making, and craft. Yet the affordances of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) extend the studio in ways that address particular limitations of time, scale, and sensory modality. When integrated with clear learning goals, scaffolded pedagogy, and attention to equity and ethics, AR/VR can deepen … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Exploring the Nexus of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in Visual Arts Education, v.2
Revisionist Pedagogy – Exploring Interactive Installations: Bridging Art, Technology, and Audience Engagement, v.2
Interactive installations sit at a fruitful crossroads of art and technology, offering immersive, participatory experiences that reconceptualize authorship, spectatorship, and learning. When treated as a deliberate pedagogical strategy, interactive installations are not merely contemporary artworks; they are classroom laboratories that cultivate creativity, systems thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and digital fluency. This essay defines the form, shows … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Exploring Interactive Installations: Bridging Art, Technology, and Audience Engagement, v.2
Revisionist Pedagogy – Exploring Image Analysis and Interpretation: An Academic Perspective, v.2
In a world saturated with visual media, teaching image analysis and interpretation has to be more than occasional art-room talk — it must be a taught, assessed literacy. This essay argues that image analysis is a foundational visual-literacy competency that schools must teach intentionally, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an augmenting tool while centring cultural … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Exploring Image Analysis and Interpretation: An Academic Perspective, v.2
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 – Taboo: The Art of Tiki, edited by Martin McIntosh with an introduction by Sven A. Kirsten
"Taboo: The Art of Tiki" is at once a curatorial flourish and a cultural document: a small, handsome volume that archives a particular late-20th-century fascination with Pacific iconography as refracted through the sensibilities of Lowbrow and pop-surrealist artists. Edited by Martin McIntosh with an introduction by Sven A. Kirsten, and credited with contributions from figures … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Taboo: The Art of Tiki, edited by Martin McIntosh with an introduction by Sven A. Kirsten
The New Renaissance Mindset 