Art Education Toolkit

The tool kit of Inspiration introduces new teachers and teaching artists to the world of art education. In this section, you will find resources that support curriculum, arts & artists, journals, and books. The information is to help you reflect on your pedagogy and critically create lessons for all by applying critical pedagogy.

Theories & Practice

Student-centered

Action-oriented

Co-created

Community & Place-Based

Critical Consciousness

Cultural Wealth

Dialogic

Mindfulness & Contemplative

Socially Justice

Somatic

Trauma-Informed

Love/Joy 

  • Center for Urban Pedagogy

  • Making & Being

  • Peoples Lower Eastside Curriculum Project

  • Placemaking Inquiry Guide/ New Urban Arts

  • Inquiry-based Lesson Tips

  • National Gallery of Art: Critical Thinking Through Art

  • NYCORE, Revolutionizing the Classroom, Transforming Mainstream Curriculum into Social Justice Teaching

  • The Storytelling Project Curriculum: Learning about race and racism through storytelling and the arts

Curriculum Inspiration 

Art & Artists

  • Art21

    Inclusion in Art

    The Shed

    Smart History: The Center For Public

    Art History 

    The Black School

  • Ford Foundation Gallery

    Serpentine Gallery

    The Shed

  • Bell, Alexandra (Interdisciplinary)

    Cahun, Claude (Photography)

    Faustine, Nona (Photography)

    Jacir, Emily (Artists/filmmaker)

    Scott, Dred (Multi-disciplinary artist)

    Shanu, Herzekiah A (Photojournalist)

    Walker, Kara (Artist)

    Ware, Kamau (Multi-disciplinary artist;

    historian)

    Wiley, Kehinde (Portrait painter)

  • Visual Arts & Eduaction

    Art Education Journal 

    Digital Culture and Education*

    Teaching Artists Journal

    Visual Arts Inquiry: Learning &

    Teaching Art

    General Education

    Art Education Journal 

    Digital Culture and Education*

    Teaching Artists Journal

    Art/Media Arts Specific

    Art Journal Open*

    • Emergent Strategies: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. |adrienne maree brown |AK Press, Feb 20, 2017

    • Pedagogy of the Oppressed. | Paulo Freire. | 2000, New York: Continuum.

    • ,Research Through Imperial Eyes’ in Decolonizing Methodologies | Linda Tuhiwai Smith

    • Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design |Gunther Kress Theo van Leeuwen

    • Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom | bell hooks,

    • Educating for Social Change Through Art: A Personal Reckoning, Studies in Art Education. Dipti Desai (2020)

    • ​Love as the Practice of Freedom in Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations. bell hooks. (2015)

    • Using Their Words: Six Elements of Social Justice Curriculum Design for the Elementary Classroom’. Bree Pickower 

    • Art Education Journal ​

    • Digital Culture and Education*​

    • Teaching Artists Journal​

    • Visual Arts Inquiry: Learning &

    • Teaching Art​

    • International Teaching Artists

    • Collaborative- Think Tank Archive​​

    • Emergent Strategy Podcast

    • Sage Crump, M. Herndon, AM Brown

Media