Why MoMA’s Massive Online Open Courses are a Must for Anyone Teaching Art (available on Coursera)
The Museum of Modern Art’s MOOCs (massive open online courses), like Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art, are essential for anyone teaching art to grades Pre-K-12, and the ones I have taken have even provided useful tools that I have brought into my courses with undergraduates. In these courses, I have learned techniques for making lectures more conversational, as well as how to engage students through play.
Reading Reflection: ‘Point and Line to Plane’ by Wassily Kandinsky
Over Winter break this year, I read a classic in the field of 2D Design and composition —- Point and Line to Plane by Wassily Kandinsky. The book provides a fantastic entry point into deeper ways of thinking about painting and drawing. Read on to see my ideas for incorporating Kandinsky’s teachings into my own classes.