Sharpen your pencils, the Big Draw is back! The Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design hosts the second-annual Big Draw Providence, inviting visitors to join us in a broad range of free hands-on workshops, events, and activities on the Chace Plaza at 20 North Street and throughout the Museum on Saturday, April 30, from 11 am to 4 pm.
Having recently returned from the National Art Education Association Conference in Seattle, I have creativity and curiosity on my mind. The week-long conference left me with inspiration and new ideas in the world of art education, with everything from new thinking on design education to drawing practices and new research in neuroscience. One presenter, a professor from [...]
The Artful Family. With the recent debut of the “Young Explorer’s Guide to the Greek and Roman collections” for the newly reinstalled galleries at the RISD Museum, I have been thinking a lot of about coins. Our explorer’s guide offers a close look at one coin in particular, which features the goddess Athena and helps [...]
By Aja Blanc Associate Educator for Family + Youth programs at the RISD Museum of Art My line is childlike but not childish. It is very difficult to fake… to get that quality you need to project yourself into the child’s line. It has to be felt. – Cy Twombly Cy Twombly, American, b. 1929. [...]
By Aja Blanc Associate Educator for Family + Youth programs at the RISD Museum of Art We are concerned with possibility, with opening windows on alternative realities, with moving through doorways into spaces some of us have never seen before. – Maxine Greene In her book Variations on a Blue Guitar, renowned education scholar Maxine [...]
