Resources

The NYU Art+Education program focuses on the intersection between contemporary art, critical pedagogy, and social justice. We are inspired by many people, organizations, events, and conversations…

An incomplete reading list…

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire
• We Make the Road by Walking, a conversation between Paulo Freire and Myles Horton
• Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
• A Pedagogy for Liberation by Paulo Freire and Ira Shor
• Reinventing Paolo Freire: A Pedagogy of Love by Antonia Darder
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Troublemakers by Carla Shalaby
• We Want to do More than Survive by Bettina Love
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum
• Citizen by Claudia Rankine
• Releasing the Imagination by Maxine Greene
• Believing is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art by Mary Anne Staniszewski
• Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education, Editors: Susan Cahan and Zoya Kocur
• Themes of Contemporary Art, Visual Art After 1980 by Jean Robertson & Craig McDaniel

Some podcasts:

• Miseducation, The Bell
• School Colors
• The Problem We All Live With, from This American Life/Nicole Hannah-Brown
• Teaching While White 
• Nice White Parents
• Teaching Hard History, Teaching Tolerance
• Race through Education
• This Teenage Life
• Seeing White
• White Lies
• The 1619 Project  
• Uncivil 
• The Witness Podcast Network
• Show About Race
• Code Switch
• Pod Save the People, with DeRay
• Seeing White
• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
• Pod for the Cause
• Intersectionality Matters! With Kimberle Crenshaw

We are also inspired by the work of contemporary artists and consider galleries, museums, and public spaces as important places to see and participate in the art of our time. These sources help us stay up to date on art in New York City and worldwide:  Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/ 

ART21: http://www.art21.org/  & ART21 Magazine: http://blog.art21.org/

eFlux: http://www.e-flux.com/ 

And these educator networks and publishers support radical thinking and doing in education:

NYCORE (New York Collective of Radical Educators): http://www.nycore.org/  Rethinking Schools:  http://www.rethinkingschools.org

Teaching for Change:  http://www.teachingforchange.org/