The Artschool as an incubator

How does the artschool function as an incubator to cultivate the growth and development of teachers and what kind of experiences do we hope students carry with them as educators?

The presentation will share learnings and experiences which can support students’ engagements with social, cultural histories and narratives in diverse environments and communities.

Ayelet is a social practice curator and instructor of the Community Arts Practice Fieldwork course at the Art and Art Education program. Her research examines the intersection of art, education, and Ethics of Care with interests including Justice-based leadership, reflective artistic practices, and Transformational Learning. Ayelet brings her experience in artists residencies and diverse communities to support students in their journeys from the classroom into the field. Specifically her focus is on how artists cultivate their artistic process through meaning-making and sustainable practices.

Selected curatorial projects include the environmental justice exhibit Silent Fall at the Art Museum of the Americas (March 2023); The ARTmobile - an artists’ incubator with the Brooklyn Public Library; Voices of Multiplicity ( VoM) - a socially engaged artists' residency with Residency Unlimited (RU); Button Soap in Natchez, MS, with the Coalition of 100 Black Women; Cultivating Artists as Agents of Change with Our Town (NEA);“Re:Construction” public art for Alliance for Downtown NY; Parallel projects with the International Artists’ Museum at the 51st & 52nd Venice Biennales. Recent publications include: Dominique Paul- The Artistic Practice as Geography of the Heart for the catalogue Silent Fall; Then and Now in the Harlem Renaissance Curriculum Guide / Wallach Gallery, Columbia University; Seeing the Unseen in Trends - Texas Art Education Journal. Ayelet is a doctoral candidate in Art and Art Education and is a Humanities New York Public Humanities Fellow 2022-23.