Introduction(s) to Men in Feminism

In the Spring of 1988 I received a note from Doug Blandy asking if I wanted to co-ordinate a panel on Men in Feminism with him. The idea of men working with feminist ideas was not new to our discussions. When we worked together at Bowling Green State University, we often wondered (and indeed frequently laughed) at how gender related the reactions of our faculty and students probably were to our successes and failures. Shortly after I agreed to coordinate this panel with Doug, I attended a conference in the Pennsylvanian mountains in Women, Art and Society. This was my first major conference exclusively designed for women dealing with women\u27s issues

Reviews and Responses: Brown and Spitzer’s Public Folklore

Book review for Public Folklore, Robert Baron and N. R. Spitzer (Editors), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1992

Issues Posed by the Study of Folk Art in Art Education

The study of folk art processes and products reveals several issues concerning the study of art and our educational methodologies. This paper will address the following issues and how they relate to the field of art education: (a) the learning process which takes place in folk art settings and the notion of the folk artist as educator; (b) aesthetics, art criticism, and art history from the folk artist\u27s perspective; (c) the many functions of art and the value of one function over another in our society; and (d) the existence of elitism in folk art categorization by academics

Art Teaching for Peace and Justice

The social goals of peace and justice are not removed from art processes and products, and especially not from curricula in art classrooms. In this article, six topic areas are suggested for the art educator which further the causes of peace and justice: 1) Appreciating diversity; 2) Understanding that art creates individual and group identity; 3) Encouraging collaboration in art processes; 4) Working respectfully with the earth\u27s ecosystems; 5) Analyzing art which deals specifically with war and violence; and 6) Promoting peace and justice through art

Arts in Other Places: A Conference Critique

In August, 1986, a conference took place at the University of California Los Angeles called Art in Other Places. This article will critique that conference and make suggestions for further planning of art programs in non-public school settings based on 1) Wolf Wolfensberger\u27s concept of normalization, 2) a recognition of the expressive forms that exist among various constituency groups, and 3) an analysis of long-range ramifications of decision making processes in art planning and programming

The NAMES Quilt and the Art Educator’s Role

During October of 1989, more than 9,000 individual memorial quilt panels were collected and displayed in Washington, D.C. by the NAMES Quilt Project. The panels, covering the equivalent of nine football fields, made public the grief of thousands of individuals and families whose loved ones have died of AlDS. This quilt, the NAMES Quilt, is an international effort to create a living visual memory of the devastation that the AIDS virus has inflicted on those who have died from the disease and those who have been left behind to grieve

The Green Quilt: An Example of Collective Eco-Action in Art Education

At the 1994 National Art Education Association (NAEA) Convention in Baltimore we initiated two eco-action presentations that resulted in the making and display of a Green Quilt (Blandy, Congdon, Hicks, Hoffman, & Krug, 1994a; Blandy, Congdon, Hicks, Hoffman &: Krug, 1994b). All of us have been coming to NAEA conventions for a number of years. Every year we have heard discussions on the gap between theory and practice. Discussed also has been the importance and need for activism within the NAEA. As a result of listening to these discussions, the five of us met at the 1993 convention to plan a session for 1994 that would be collaborative, active, political, and ecologically oriented. All of us have an ongoing research interest in eco-active art education. Consequently, we planned a session that would challenge conventional presentation formats by encouraging ongoing political activity. Consideration of the location of the convention, local activism, and the experiences of participants were deemed important aspects of political activity. Linking the NAEA membership with the Green Quilt Project” was the result of our planning