Aesthetic Education
Tennessee Performing Arts Center Education/ Nashville Institute for the Arts/
Little Rock's Walton Arts Center/ Memphis Institute for the Arts
1988-present. K-12 and adults.
Aesthetic education units on individual works of visual art, literature, theatre, dance, and popular culture topics using the approaches of inquiry, art-making, context, and reflection. Works of art under study have included:
Visual Art Including Film
Literature
Theatre
Dance
Popular Culture
Tennessee Performing Arts Center Education/ Nashville Institute for the Arts/
Little Rock's Walton Arts Center/ Memphis Institute for the Arts
1988-present. K-12 and adults.
Aesthetic education units on individual works of visual art, literature, theatre, dance, and popular culture topics using the approaches of inquiry, art-making, context, and reflection. Works of art under study have included:
Visual Art Including Film
- Sources of Country Music by Thomas Hart Benton
- Foxtrot Carousel by Red Grooms
- Alfred Stieglitz Photographic Portraits at Fisk University
- Photographic Portraits by Carl Van Vechten at Fisk University
- Sea Serpent by Pedro Garcia
- Blue Pesher installation by James Turrell
- The Shomu-En (Pine Mist) Japanese Garden at Cheekwood
- The Art of Film and Filmmaking Based on the Sinking Creek Film Celebration Collection
- The Human Form in Computer Animations
- "Trio of Legs" by Elliott Erwitt
- Athena by Alan Lequire
- "Blue Beacon" by John Baeder
- "The Gods Disappear" an anonymous Huichol yarn painting
- Documentary Photography in the Fisk University Collection: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life: Art in Our Neighborhood
- The Imaginary Landscapes of Virginia Derryberry
- Looking at Landscapes
- "My Mexico: The Prints of Jose Guadalupe Posada"
- Selected Paintings by Jane Braddock
- Hudson River Landscapes at Cheekwood
- Selections from the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art and Sculpture Trail
Literature
- "Star Thrower" by Loren Eisley.
- "The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry.
- "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
- "The Aleph" by Jorge Luis Borges
- "Living Like Weasels" by Annie Dillard
Theatre
- I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright based on his conversations with German Charlotte van Mahlsdorf
- Tom Sawyer by Don Schlitz
- Warrior by Marcus Hummon
Dance
- Falling Down Stairs by Mark Morris
- Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk by Daryl Waters, Vincent Bingham, Reg E. Gaines, Savion Glover, et. al.
- Contact! By Susan Stroman
Popular Culture
- A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
- Imagine How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer