Arts In Education

The ArtSparks Team shares perceptive quotes from across the world from practitioners and thinkers in the visual arts education space in a new section titled ‘Insights.’

Manasi in her essay titled ‘The Potential of Visual Arts in Language Development’ discusses the intimate links between visual arts and learning, especially those related to languages; at the same time, she makes a case for the need to learn the visual arts independent of their links to learning the written word.

Neeraj Naidu in a reflective piece highlights the absence of visual arts education in remote rural geographies, many of which are conflict-ridden, and argues that this is indeed a social justice issue.

placing the discourse and practices related to visual arts education firmly within its present context, especially that of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the section titled ‘Resources and Reviews’ we carry a discussion by Marta Cabral of Nisha Nair’s book on visual arts education practice titled ‘Art Sparks: Ideas. Methods. Process.’

In his essay, shares experiences and stories from experimenting with visual arts in an early childhood library program.