Participants may come as individual teachers, though we recommend a team of classroom teacher, special education teacher, and
an arts essentialist.
Classroom teachers, special education teachers,
arts essentialists, and teaching artists will come together to:
Amy Traggianese is an elementary
art essentialist who specializes in arts integration, Amy received her Masters in Art Education from Southern Connecticut State University and most recently, her Certificate in Education Leadership from Sacred Heart University.
Not exact matches
Participants will be introduced to the essential ingredients needed to create a co-teaching collaboration with
essentialists (e.g.
art, music, physical education, media) to develop meaningful
arts - integrated approaches to support academic deficiencies.
No sign of a «female style»; no centralized imagery or necessary pattern and decoration, as some
essentialist feminist
art critics believed at the beginning of the women's movement.
Thinking about abstraction's continued relevance may require me to at least mention Zombie Formalism, («Formalism because this
art involves a straightforward, reductive,
essentialist method of making a painting and Zombie because it brings back to life the discarded aesthetics of Clement Greenberg»), if only to suggest that the term, coined by artist - critic Walter Robinson, quoted in brackets above, seems to refer more to the market than to the
art and may appear more pertinent in the USA than in the UK where alternative modernisms have sometimes held more sway than the version associated with Greenberg and Fried.
Students at Minneapolis College of
Art and Design criticized their Estrogen Bomb poster campaign, describing it as insensitive towards transgender people since it ties the female gender to estrogen, the same sort of
essentialist link the Guerilla Girls aim to critique.
In that regard there is an «
essentialist» side to Oscar's
art.
Purity, another key modernist mark espoused by the critic - theorist Clement Greenberg, is also travestied as Vaisman deflates the spiritual,
essentialist aura associated with reductive abstraction (as in the
art of Barnett Newman or Robert Ryman) and instead makes reference to mass production, commodity fetishism, and the problem of representation in the postmodern, post-industrial arena.
Thelma Golden, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs at the Studio Museum in Harlem, synopsizes the development of «black
art» from «the vital political activism of the 1960s to the focused, often
essentialist, Black
Arts Movement of the 1970s to the theory — driven multiculturalism of the 1980s to the late globalist expansion of the late 1990s.»
Both exhibitions emphasize the plural nature of feminist
art:
art made all over the world by women of all different nationalities, classes, and cultural and racial affiliations, and presumably identified with both the «
essentialist» and the «constructionist» brands of feminist theory and politics, not to mention the many strategies of feminist
art, from craft work to political exposé to canon - busting to the deconstruction of gender mythologies to body - centered investigations.
It almost seems ridiculous to have to call Reinhardt an
essentialist, as the drive to find an
art that was essentially true and yet content-less was exactly what motivated him.
«Sexual Politics,» which featured work by artists like Barbara Kruger, Adrian Piper, and Mary Kelly, explored the tension between
essentialist and constructionist approaches to
art.
Art made by women becomes necessarily and solely about feminist activism (or worse, some essentialist archetype of women's work, as was the case with Ken Johnson's review in The New York Times of Michelle Grabner's recent show at James Cohan Gallery), and queer individuals must always make art that is about non-normative sexuali
Art made by women becomes necessarily and solely about feminist activism (or worse, some
essentialist archetype of women's work, as was the case with Ken Johnson's review in The New York Times of Michelle Grabner's recent show at James Cohan Gallery), and queer individuals must always make
art that is about non-normative sexuali
art that is about non-normative sexuality.
Art in all its forms allows the world in, and largely acts as a counter-argument to
essentialist thinking.»
Known as his Pasta Paintings, the works are a saccharine, but serious critique of the
essentialist approach to understanding the nature of painting as a medium in 20th century
art.