Not only do I encourage students to express their questions and understandings about history in creative forms, I urge them to seek the creative ways that peoples throughout history have sought to solve the pressing problems of their respective eras. In this way, we both study and practice creativity.
School of Beauty, School of Culture (2012), Kerry James Marshall.
The Works Projects Administration was a New Deal program created by President FDR in 1935 in an effort to address massive unemployment caused by the Great Depression.
Chinampas, or Floating Gardens of the Aztecs, a technological innovation to increase agricultural productivity in an empire with increasing population demands.
The Bauhaus movement in art, architecture and applied fine arts was an adaptation of the Fine Arts Movement to modernism. Bauhaus style emphasized functionality over pure decoration in an aesthetic intended to reflect rather than obscure the realities of urbanization and industrialization.
Artist Keith Haring painting his mural on the Berlin Wall in 1986.