Our friends at the newly revamped Art History Pedagogy and Practice have just released their call for papers! Please consider submitting a proposal: — Art History Pedagogy & Practice will once again be accepting submissions beginning in February 2025. While the journal has been on hiatus for the past few years, it was recently transferred to ..read more

Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR) is pleased to announce that the organization has been chosen as the recipient of the 2024 Judy Chicago Art Education Award providing funding for Art History and Gender Teaching Resources. This is an annual award given by Through the Flower that honors Judy Chicago and her pioneering work as an art educator. AHTR is home ..read more

Hello! After a hiatus of a few years, AHTR is back! Several of the original co-founders have moved on to new ventures and Covid created some screen fatigue. But the break was good. We are reinvigorated and excited to introduce new content, share some exciting grants, and continue to add to many of the information ..read more

by Ellen C. Caldwell see the complete lesson plan here In January of 2020, just before the world would be unalterably impacted by COVID-19, I had the great fortune of traveling to Rapa Nui. Having taught art history surveys with an emphasis on Polynesian and Oceanic art for over a decade, I had dreamt of ..read more

How do public art museums function today? Who selects the objects on display and defines the stories that are (de)constructed? What are the value systems underpinning how museum collections and exhibitions operate? Join a three-part series of live online conversations with artists, students, and staff of the MFA Boston, exploring some of the critical questions, structures and processes that guide our museum work today ..read more

By Aly Meloche and Francesca Albrezzi February 10th marks the beginning of a CAA annual meeting that promises to be unlike any other. Normally, many of us look forward to the annual meeting as an opportunity to catch up with colleagues from around the world and hear new ideas for research and teaching. It’s strange ..read more

While I’ve had many years of experience working with digital tools and creating digital art history projects, the transition to distance learning provided me with an opportunity to get creative and try some things that were new. Here are a few tips and tricks that I used, which others may find useful as we continue to teach and learn in an online environment ..read more

Spatial learning provides exciting possibilities, unhindered by remote learning (and perhaps unbound by it?), combining the brain’s natural aptitude for spatial thinking with the contextualization possible through virtual environments ..read more

For those of us who are just beginning to teach online, the concept of conducting scholarship of teaching and learning in addition to all of the other new responsibilities must sound about as much fun as running a virtual meeting while trying to homeschool new math ..read more

s a Renaissance art historian I am keenly aware of the passion that can be generated through “classic” works of art from the traditional Western survey, but it is long past the time that we stop prioritizing such a model. Doing so would not only be good for art history, but it might also offer the chance to lead by example for greater inclusivity and equity in higher education more broadly ..read more