1st Edition

Art Education as a Radical Act Untold Histories of Education at MoMA

Edited By Sara Torres-Vega, Wendy Woon Copyright 2024
306 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This comprehensive volume highlights and centers untold histories of education at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from 1937 to 2020, using the critical voices of artists, scholars, designers, and educators. Exploring these histories as transformative and paradigm-shifting in museum education, it elevates MoMA educators as vocal advocates for harnessing the educational power that museums... Read more

Foreword

Wendy Woon

 

Introduction

Sara Torres-Vega

 

PART 1 ROOT: A BEGINNING, A PEDAGOGY, A TERRAIN, A SPIRAL Sara Torres-Vega

Chapter 1 MASS FRUSTRATION: On the historical hunger for cultural openings and inclusion Sara Torres-Vega

1.1   What Victor D’Amico Got Right About Art Education

Ellen Winner

1.2   Inclusive Exclusions: Victor D’Amico and the Management of Diversity at MoMA Education (1935–1970 and beyond)

Sara Torres-Vega

 

Chapter 2 DISSIDENT ELITES: on the need for powerful allies Sara Torres-Vega

2.1 The Museum, Is Not A School?

Luis Camnitzer

2.2 Art for Democracy: The Young People’s Gallery

Susan E. Cahan

2.3 "The Principles Of Modern Architecture Are ____": Arthur Drexler and the Museum as Classroom

Michelle Millar Fisher

2.4 Spaceboxing

Hector (Jae Shin and Damon Rich)

 

PART 2 ARCA: A SHELL, A BOX, AN ARK, A BARGE Sara Torres-Vega

 

Chapter 3 A WORLD IN CRISIS: on art education in times of war Sara Torres-Vega

3.1 The Archive We Don’t See: Mining a Speculative Counter-Narrative within MoMA’s Victor D’Amico Papers

Gregory Sholette

3.2 Art-Class Democracy

Carol Duncan 

 

Chapter 4 A PERMISSIVE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT: on the globality of art Sara Torres-Vega

4.1 Archiving Il Paradiso

Sara Torres-Vega

4.2 Confidential Report: MoMA in Barcelona (Spain) Feria

Moreen Maser

4.3 Index of an Image from the MoMA Education Archive

Nana Adusei-Poku and Carmen Mörsch

4.4 Three Breakfasts With Indira Gandhi: Prabha Sahasrabudhe’s Reminiscences of the Children’s Art Carnival in India

Sara Torres-Vega

 

Chapter 5 DISCONTINUANCE

Rika Burnham

 

Chapter 6 AFTERLIFE: on leading a new beginning Betty Blayton

6.1 Finding the Children’s Art Carnival: An International Treasure

Donna M. Jones

6.2 Intro To A Life In The Arts

José Ortiz

 

PART III. REMANENCE: a practice, a voice, a story, a force Sara Torres-Vega

Charter 7. DEMOCRATIZING THE ARTS

William Burback

Chapter 8. VISUAL THINKING AND POLITICAL ACTION

Philip Yenawine

Chapter 9. BROADENING THE AUDIENCE: more technology and internationalization

Patterson Sims

Chapter 10. AN EXPANDING MUSEUM COMMUNITY

Deborah F. Schwartz

Chapter 11. THE MUSEUM AS A LABORATORY

Wendy Woon

Biography

Sara Torres-Vega is Associate Professor at Complutense University, Spain and Lecturer at New York University in Madrid.

Wendy Woon is an adjunct instructor at New York University’s Steinhardt School Visual Arts Administration program, and was the former Deputy Director for Education at MoMA.