Students learn more than technique in their art classes. New research by Lois Hetland (“Studio Thinking”) shows that art programs teach a specific and valuable set of thinking skills that could have positive impacts on student learning across the curriculum. Lois Hetland appears at Columbia on Monday, November 6, at 6 p.m. at Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash. Hosted by the Chicago Center for Arts Policy http://www.colum.edu/artspolicy
Hetland is Research Associate & Principal Investigator in Harvard’s Project Zero, and Associate Professor of Art Education at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Respondents: Nilaja Sun is a teaching artist and writer/performer of No Child…, a “lightening-paced, multi-character solo play” based on Sun’s experiences teaching drama in the New York City’s toughest schools. Mary Ridley is a veteran visual art teacher of nearly two decades in the Chicago Public Schools, a Golden Apple winner and consultant to CPS’s Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Cluster Programs.