In Show Your Work!, Austin Kleon delivers a manifesto for the modern creative, advocating for openness, transparency, and generosity in the creative process. With its concise prose, visual flair, and actionable advice, this book becomes more than just a guide—it is a cultural critique of the solitary artist myth, updated for the age of social media. … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Reviews – Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon
The Adaptable Educator’s Daily Book Review: Mastering Raku: Making Ware, Glazes, Building Kilns, Firing by Steven Branfman
Steven Branfman’s Mastering Raku is an indispensable treatise on one of the most expressive and dynamic ceramic techniques: raku. As both a technical manual and a philosophical exploration, this book offers a wealth of insights for ceramists, artists, and scholars intrigued by the intersection of fire, earth, and artistry. Bridging History and Practice Branfman masterfully situates raku … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Daily Book Review: Mastering Raku: Making Ware, Glazes, Building Kilns, Firing by Steven Branfman
Master Educators Helping Teachers: ASM Materials Education Foundation
In their own words: Empowering Educators, Igniting Passion: ASM Materials Education Foundation Shapes Tomorrow’s Innovators in Materials Science! Watch This! Making Material Difference The ASM Materials Education Foundation provides for the advancement of scientific and engineering knowledge through its support of education and research. The Foundation introduces hands-on curriculum to provide educators with the tools to increase … Continue reading Master Educators Helping Teachers: ASM Materials Education Foundation
Why I completed a Diploma called “How to be a Super Learner”
To be honest, I purchased this online course several years ago and just kept putting it off when more exciting (sounding) professional development opportunities arose. My initial motivation for doing it was to try a different perspective on learning and to help with my (at that time) university studies. These days, every in every course … Continue reading Why I completed a Diploma called “How to be a Super Learner”
Strange Folk – Lyrics from Outcasts, Rebels, Hobos and Bards
Inspired by People Are Strange by The Doors and the haunting sounds of a travelling carnival’s weathered calliope. Re-imagined in what I think Tom Waits might have done, had he wrote this song. Well, there's something about folks, don't ya see, They're mighty peculiar, just like you and me. Their faces are masks, hiding secrets … Continue reading Strange Folk – Lyrics from Outcasts, Rebels, Hobos and Bards
Learning: Paolo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Pedagogy of the Oppressed" is a seminal work by Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire, published in 1968. In this influential text, Freire presents a critical pedagogy that challenges traditional educational methods and seeks to empower marginalized individuals. Here is a summary of key concepts from the book: Oppression and Liberation: Freire begins by exploring … Continue reading Learning: Paolo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed
A People’s Art: Part 1: Art Can Be A Positive Voice For Change: A People’s Art: Part 1: A People’s Art: Part 1:
Social Media is bleeding images and stories from every corner of the world and adding competing opinions... sometimes based in fact, sometimes based in propaganda... I'd like to reach your hearts from another approach and trust you to develop your own feelings on these impressive people. 7 Palestinian artists you will want to know... From … Continue reading A People’s Art: Part 1: Art Can Be A Positive Voice For Change: A People’s Art: Part 1: A People’s Art: Part 1:
The Gifting – A New Abstract-ish, Neo-Expressionist-ish… well you decide…
In my last post on this, I started stating this piece is almost un-original in the borrowing of styles, isms, and possibly even components from other artists... well my brain is so full of art that I just let it roll with whatever comes out... I'll worry about defining it later. I decided. to. start … Continue reading The Gifting – A New Abstract-ish, Neo-Expressionist-ish… well you decide…
An Obsession to Fill – Deconstructing Picasso’s Guernica
I feel that I became interested in Picasso's Guernica way before my time living in Spain. However, that might be where my obsession with it began, as I spent nearly every other Sunday in the special gallery for this painting at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. I believe it was there in 1996 … Continue reading An Obsession to Fill – Deconstructing Picasso’s Guernica
A Symphony of Suffering: A Critical Analysis of Picasso’s Guernica
Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" stands as an iconic representation of the horrors of war and the human capacity for cruelty. Created in response to the bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War in 1937, the painting is a powerful and haunting masterpiece that transcends its historical context to evoke universal themes of human suffering and the destructive nature of conflict.
The New Renaissance Mindset 