We have all taught art for many years, using pencils and paint in brick and mortar classrooms. But now with computers, we can teach art online, at the speed of light at 186,000 miles per second, or even more fantastic, with wireless technology. Now that’s creative!
For the past five years, I have utilized the Web as a teaching environment in v…[Read more]

Imagine if famous artists could help us guide art discussions in the classroom. In The Second Life Artist Project, digital avatars for three legendary artists: Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, & Vincent Van Gogh. each respond to three pieces of art by living artists., Those artist avatars model the Visual Thinking Strategy, or VTS, to discuss s…[Read more]

The Ed Media Center in Second Life provides multiple professional development opportunities for art educators to explore the educational potential of virtual worlds together. Since it’s launch in 2009, it has hosted numerous events that address contemporary students’ learning preferences and that enable artists and art educators to become eff…[Read more]

Co-Directors June Julian and Julian Crooks demonstrate the multiple features of the Cerulean Gallery in Second Life, this research report showcases several exemplar exhibits created by students, artists, and museums.
Located in The Educational Media Center, a Second Life teaching and social space, the Cerulean Gallery exhibits functioned as case…[Read more]

Demonstrating the multiple features of the Cerulean Gallery in Second Life, this research artifact, a Second Life video or machinima, showcases several exemplary exhibits created by students, artists, and museums.
Located in The Educational Media Center, a Second Life teaching and social space, the Cerulean Gallery exhibits functioned as case…[Read more]

Is it time for a new aesthetic for the traditional genre of marine painting – one that reflects the contemporary realities of worldwide ocean degradation? In her recent series, Atlantic Blues- Paintings from the Edge, artist June Julian celebrates the ocean in all of its power and magnificence, but also sings the blues about our abuses of it. S…[Read more]

An exhibition of paintings from an Art and Archaeology research expedition in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland may seem to be unlikely teaching moment. Yet that collection of images, and the ideas behind them form the core of a novel approach that uses tartan design to teach about the climate crisis. Young people are anxious about climate change and…[Read more]

The “Landscape and Culture: Expedition Art of the Scottish Hebrides” exhibition depicts the dramatic backdrop for my two
Art and Archaeology fieldwork seasons on the Isles of Vallay and North Uist, UK. Situated within the longstanding tradition of expedition art, the works document the endangered landscapes that had supported human habitation…[Read more]