Art, Media, and the Mind

Thinking and learning in the arts and media

Kimberly Sheridan is an assistant professor in Educational Psychology and Art and Visual Technology at George Mason University. She is co-author of the book, Studio thinking: The real benefits of visual arts education. See full bio

June 26, 2008, Creativity

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Art, Mind, and Missoula

By Kim Sheridan on June 26, 2008 in Art, Media, and the Mind

I'm writing this from a town I've never been in before. And I decided that an account of my thought process in my first hour here in Missoula, Montana is as good a way as any to introduce myself and what I will be writing about in this blog on art, media and the mind. Why? I want to suggest that we think about art more often than we might think. Read More

"Aesthetic thinking-the way

Submitted by greg on June 26, 2008 - 12:06pm.

"Aesthetic thinking-the way we extract meaning, ideas and feelings from the qualities of our sensory experiences- is not limited to just when we explicitly think we are experiencing art."

as an artist myself, I couldn't have said it better! to make art or to observe art, one has to think of art as something that happens in all facets of life, not just in the gallery or studio.

looks like this should be an interesting blog!

Kim- I love what you wrote-

Submitted by swrb on June 27, 2008 - 8:22am.

Kim- I love what you wrote- Like a poetry of navigation ... It reminded me of A.R. Ammons ... "A Poem Is a Walk," "Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing ..."