Art Education: Books & Other Resources

Art-Centered Learning Across the Curriculum: Integrating Contemporary Art in the Secondary School Classroom by Julia Marshall; David M. Donahue; Lois Hetland (Foreword by) This handbook provides teachers with a framework for implementing inquiry-based, substantive art integration across the curriculum, along with the background knowledge of models needed to do this.

Engaging Learners Through Artmaking by Katherine M. Douglas; Diane B. Jaquith; Christine Marmé Thompson (Foreword by) This book blends sound educational theory with actual practice, and is a resource for practicing and pre-service art teachers, curriculum coordinators, aftercare and camp directors and anyone interested in authentic learning through visual art.

The Learner-Directed Classroom: Developing Creative Thinking Skills through Art by Diane B. Jaquith (Editor); Nan E. Hathaway (Editor) In The Learner-Directed Classroom, practicing art educators (PreK 16) offer both a comprehensive framework for understanding student-directed learning and concrete pedagogical strategies to implement student-direct learning activities in school.

Studio Thinking 2: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education by Lois Hetland; Ellen Winner; Kimberly M. Sheridan; Shirley Veenema; Susan Neuman Studio Thinking 2 will help advocates explain arts education to policymakers, help art teachers develop and refine their teaching and assessment practices, and assist educators in other disciplines to learn from existing practices in arts education.

Talking about Student Art by Terry Barrett This book provides real-world perspective, samples of critical discussions and presents critiquing strategies that worked, and even some that didn't, in a multitude of educational settings. Sample critiques likewise provide real classroom perspective on dealing with meaning, gender issues, influences and more. Judging student art is also addressed, while general recommendations for interactive group critiques round-out this practicing teacher's guide.

Visual Thinking Strategies: Using Art to Deepen Learning across School Disciplines by Philip Yenawine The book shows how Visual Thinking Strategies can be easily and effectively integrated into elementary classroom lessons in just ten hours of a school year to create learner-centered environments where students at all levels are involved in rich, absorbing discussions.

Art Education and Human Development by Howard Gardner Suggested paths that policy and practices should take in the realm of art education are made based on a review of the research done in several areas including specific knowledge about human development and human development from an artistic perspective.

The Arts and Human Development by Howard Gardner Gardner’s classic on the development of creativity. Illustrated throughout with children’s art, this book is a systematic examination of the relation between youthful participation in the arts and the ultimate craftsmanship attained by gifted artists.

Theories of Development by William Crain Tthis classic text introduces students to twenty-four theorists and compares and contrasts their theories on how we develop as individuals

Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom, Ages 4-14 by Chip Wood This comprehensive, user-friendly reference offers clear descriptions of children’s development from age 4 to age 14. A bestseller, now in its 3rd edition, Yardsticks has helped countless teachers and administrators shape classrooms and schools where all children can succeed.

Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts by Mat Schwarzman; Keith Knight; Ellen Forney (As told to); Lily Yeh (Contribution by) Ten transformative local arts projects come alive in this comics-illustrated training manual for youth leaders and teachers.

Community Art in Action by Marilyn G. Stewart (Editor); Kristin Congdon This resource shows how art education programs can be expanded to address community-based and cultural traditions. The text explains how art and aesthetic choices are at the heart of communities and discusses how folklife and community practices are associated with the natural and built environment, different occupations, recreational activities, and ethnic traditions.

Designing for Social Change: Strategies for Community-Based Graphic Design by Andrew Shea; William Drenttel (Foreword by); Ellen Lupton (Illustrator) The latest addition to our Design Briefs series, Designing for Social Change, is a compact, hands-on primer for graphic designers who want to use their unique problem-solving skills to help others. Author Andrew Shea presents ten proven strategies for working effectively with community organizations. These strategies can frame the design challenge and create a checklist to keep a project on track. Twenty case studies illustrate how design professionals and students approach unique challenges when working on a social agenda.

Making Art Together by Mark Cooper; Lisa Sjostrom Artist Mark Cooper creates remarkable, collaborative art with children, and in this practical book of ideas he shows how it can be done anywhere, with amazing results. Drawing from his own work with classes around the country, Cooper shows how children can create art objects together, from decorated sculptures to billboards against violence to maps of the world. Children learn the way adult artists work—and about how democracy works—in planning, designing, and executing these large-scale works.

Activity-Based Teaching in the Art Museum - Movement, Embodiment, Emotion by Elliott Kai-Kee; Lissa Latina; Lilit Sadoyan

Teaching in the Art Museum by Rika Burnham; Elliott Kai-Kee At the heart of all good art museum teaching is an effort to bring people and artworks together in meaningful ways. But what constitutes an experience of a work of art? What should be taught and why? What kinds of uniquely valuable experiences are museum educators alone equipped to provide? This book—unlike any other publication currently available—addresses these and myriad other questions and investigates the mission, history, theory, practice, and future prospects of museum education.

Using the Art Museum by Denise L. Stone How can the museum be incorporated into the school curriculum in a meaningful way? The author highlights examples of exemplary programs that engage students in meaningful ways, and provides practical ideas for making your local art museum an exceptional education resource. Reproducible worksheets and checklists for planning your museum trips are included.

Approaches to Art Therapy: Theory and Technique by Judith Aron Rubin (Editor) The third edition of Approaches to Art Therapy brings together varied theoretical approaches and provides a variety of solutions to the challenge of translating theory to technique.

Art As Therapy by Alain de Botton; John Armstrong Describes a new way of looking at familiar masterpieces, suggesting that the works of art can be useful, relevant--and even therapeutic.

The Art of Art Therapy: What Every Art Therapist Needs to Know by Judith A. Rubin "The Art of Art Therapy, first published in 1984, was written primarily to help art therapists first define and then refine a way of thinking about their work. This new edition contains thoroughly revised material that reflects the significant expansion of the field of art therapy in the period since the book was first written.

Mapping the Intelligence of Artistic Work by Anne West The book is structured as a series of exercises and prompts that define the mapping process and introduce methods for artists to develop, articulate, and disseminate ideas.

In the Making: Creative Options for Creative Art by Linda Weintraub From the first page to the last, from Thomas Kinkaid (really!) to Matthew Barney, this book serves as a launching pad. Conclusions are perpetually delayed. Resolutions are continually postponed. The text is written for takeoff, not arrival. It is a first step for readers' explorations of current modes of art making and for their own future artistic achievements.

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You about Being Creative by Austin Kleon A guide to creativity in the digital age, this book presents ten transformative principles to help readers discover their artistic side and build a more creative life.

Art and Social Justice Education: Culture as Commons by Therese M. Quinn (Editor); John Ploof (Editor); Lisa J. Hochtritt (Editor) Art and Social Justice Education offers inspiration and tools for educators to craft critical, meaningful, and transformative arts education curricula and arts integration projects. The images, descriptive texts, essays, and resources are grounded within a clear social justice framework and linked to ideas about culture as commons.

Art Education for Social Justice by Tom Anderson, et al This book is a collection of stories depicting vision and compassion. The text provides a benchmark in professional efforts toward social justice in a wide array of art education contexts, including community education, K-12 art education, higher education and teacher preparation, international, and multicultural perspectives. Each topic is addressed in chapters written by well-known socially conscious art educators, intertwined with chapters by newer voices in the field.

Class Rules: Exposing Inequality in American High Schools by Peter W. Cookson; Michael F. Graves Class Rules challenges the popular myth that high schools are the "Great Equalizers". In his groundbreaking study, Cookson demonstrates that adolescents undergo different class rites of passage depending on the social-class composition of the high school they attend.

Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education by Susan Cahan (Editor); Zoya Kocur (Editor) Contemporary art and multicultural education is the first book of its kind to address the role of art within today's multicultural education. Co-published with the New Museum of Contemporary Art, this beautifully illustrated book provides both theoretical foundations and practical resources for art educators and students, combining exquisite color reproductions, statements from contemporary artists and interviews with notable educators.

Gender Matters in Art Education by Martin Rosenberg; Frances Thurber Find out how gender really matters in the artroom. Gender Matters in Art Education translates the theory of gender equity into real practice in the art classroom. The authors provide a coherent review of the important research on gender equity in schools and demonstrate, through concrete, classroom-based examples, the unique opportunities that the art classroom provides for promoting gender equity for both boys and girls.

Rac(e)ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms by H. Richard Milner IV H. Richard Milner IV provides educators with a crucial understanding of how to teach students of color who live in poverty. Milner looks carefully at the circumstances of these students' lives and describes how those circumstances profoundly affect their experiences within schools and classrooms.

Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education by New Museum Staff; Eungie Joo (Editor); Joseph Keehn (Editor); Jenny Ham-Roberts (Editor) For over a decade, Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education has served as the guide to multicultural art education, connecting everyday experience, social critique, and creative expression with classroom learning. The much-anticipated Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education continues to provide an accessible and practical tool for teachers, while offering new art, essays, and content to account for transitions and changes in both the fields of art and education

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol In Savage Inequalities, Kozol delivers a searing examination of the extremes of wealth and poverty and calls into question the reality of equal opportunity in our nation’s schools.

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol The Shame of the Nationis a triumph of firsthand reporting that pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.

Social Justice Art: a framework for activist art pedagogy by Marit Dewhurst Based on interviews and observations of sixteen high schoolers participating in an activist arts class at a New York City museum, Dewhurst identifies three learning processes common to the act of creating art that have an impact on social justice: connecting, questioning, and translating.

Developing Visual Arts Education in the United States: Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Normalization of Creativity by Mary Ann Stankiewicz This book examines how Massachusetts Normal Art School (now MassArt) became the alma mater par excellence for generations of art educators, designers, and artists.

Education (Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art) by Felicity Allen These writings by artists, philosophers, educators, poets, and activists center on three recurring and interrelated themes: the notion of "indiscipline" in theories and practices that challenge boundaries of all kinds; the present and future role of the art school; and the turn to pedagogy as medium in a diverse range of recent projects.

A History of Art Education by Arthur Efland Recent debates on the place of the arts in American life has refocused attention on art education in schools. In this book, the author puts current debate and concerns in a well-researched historical perspective. He examines the institutional settings of art education throughout Western history, the social forces that have shaped it and the evolution and impact of alternate streams of influence on present practice.

Roots of Art Education Practice by Mary Ann Stankiewicz Readers will gain insights into the circumstances under which curricular practices originated, and will better appreciate the beliefs that shape art education today. Meet the people who proposed and implemented the changes in the way art should be taught. Discover the origins of the focus on the elements of art and principles of design.

Remembering Massachusetts State Normal Schools by Massachusetts State University Council of Presidents (Adapted by); Mary-Lou Breitborde (Adapted by); Kelly Kolodny (Adapted by)

(Curating) from A to Z by Jens Hoffmann; Claire Fontaine (Text by) (Curating) From A to Z offers a summary of the development of curatorial practice over the last two decades seen through the eyes of curator Jens Hoffmann. In this publication each letter of the alphabet evokes a particular word related to the world of exhibition making: From A (as in Artist) and B (as in Biennial) to R (as in Retrospective) and W (as in White Cube).

A Brief History of Curating by Walter Hopps (Contribution by); Pontus Hulten (Contribution by); Hans Ulrich Obrist (Editor); Lucy Lippard (Text by); Harald Szeeman (Contribution by) Interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field--from early independent curators in the 1960s and 70s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and the U.S.

Manual of Museum Exhibitions by Barry Lord (Editor); Maria Piacente (Editor) Barry Lord and Maria Piacente detail the exhibition process in a straightforward way that can be easily adapted by institutions of any size. They explore the exhibition development process in greater detail, providing the technical and practical methodologies museum professionals need today.

Rethinking Curating by Beryl Graham; Sarah Cook; Steve Dietz (Foreword by) As curator Steve Dietz has observed, new media art is like contemporary art--but different. New media art involves interactivity, networks, and computation and is often about process rather than objects.

Show Time: the 50 Most Influential Exhibitions of Contemporary Art by Massimiliano Gioni (Contribution by); Hans Ulrich Obrist (Contribution by); Jens Hoffmann (Editor); Maria Lind (Contribution by) This book explores the recent history of exhibition-making, looking at the radical shifts that have taken place in the practice of curating contemporary art over the last 20 years.

Talking Contemporary Curating by Terry Smith; Claire Bishop (Contribution by); Kate Fowle (Editor); Leigh Markopoulos (Editor) The dozen searching conversations in this book...provide a vivid sense of contemporary curatorial thought at work.

Practical Statistics for Educators by Ruth Ravid This book introduces educational students and practitioners to the use of statistics in education. Basic concepts in statistics are clearly explained.

MTEL Visual Arts (17) Exam Secrets Study Guide by MTEL Exam Secrets Test Prep Staff (Editor) "MTEL Test Review for the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure"

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Classroom Management, 2 vols. by W. George Scarlett Raises issues and introduces evidence-based, real-world strategies for creating and maintaining well-managed classrooms where learning thrives.

MLA Handbook, 9th Edition by The Modern Language Association of America

The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th Edition