Co-edited with Rina Goldfield

Making Thinking: Pedagogy of Ideation in the Arts Classroom

One of the primary challenges for art educators is teaching students how to come up with and develop ideas. Teaching ideation can come in a variety of forms: from close analysis of an artwork to free writing exercises; from library research to material explorations; and from group listening exercises to solitary image making. Ideation is arguably the most difficult aspect of making and teaching art. Yet there are no resources with the primary focus of helping art professors teach ideation.

Making Thinking is an edited volume that brings together theory and practice around teaching art ideation and visual thinking at the college level. The volume foregrounds diverse voices of artists-educators teaching in a variety of disciplines, settings, and levels. Organized in three parts—Frameworks, Practices and Reflections—the volume presents readers with theories and philosophies of teaching ideation; sample classroom assignments and materials; and interviews between students and practitioners. The book’s aim is to contextualize concrete teaching materials within broader propositions around ideation and pedagogy.