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Creativ-tea

Creativ-tea

By Creativ-tea

This is a podcast all about the art of learning, making, and teaching art. As an artist and art teacher for over 20 years, I find the most inspiring and interesting ideas can be uncovered over a hot cup of tea. Join me as I talk with artists, art researchers, art educators, and art students about making and mentoring: how art is taught, how art is learned, and all the fun creative stuff in between.
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A Phenomenological Approach to Performance Art while slowing down with the Bureau of Non-Competitive Research with Stacey Cann

Creativ-teaJun 27, 2022

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Creating and Engaging with the Community through Art Making with David LeRue

Creating and Engaging with the Community through Art Making with David LeRue

In this episode, I talk with Concordia University Instructor and Ph.D Candidate David LeRue, who drinks coffee, about his experiences with creating community within and with Art Education.   We explore Stan Douglas’ musical work channeling Miles Davis 'Luanda-Kinshasa' and discuss how the past informs our present experiences.

Images discussed in the podcast are shared on my Instagram and twitter (@missa_artclass)

Nov 29, 202201:17:09
Exploring Sacred Geometry and Mindfulness within the Creative Classroom with Daniela Fundaro

Exploring Sacred Geometry and Mindfulness within the Creative Classroom with Daniela Fundaro

In this episode, I talk with Secondary Art and English Teacher (and Concordia Masters Student) Daniela Fundaro, who drinks moka coffee, about the relevance of encouraging mindfulness within the school environment.  We explore Salvador Dali’s artwork ‘The Persistence of Memory’ and discuss how exploring meditation and sacred geometry within the classroom can elevate our creative process and expand our understanding of our world.

Sep 13, 202254:21
Considering the Past and Future of Art Education with Lorrie Blair

Considering the Past and Future of Art Education with Lorrie Blair

In this episode, I talk with Concordia University Art Education Professor Dr Lorrie Blair, who drinks Bigelow’s Constant Comment tea, about the relevance of considering the past to elevate the future of art education.  In the podcast, we explore the artwork ‘Dishcloth on Line #3’ by Canadian artist Mary Pratt and discuss the importance of the art-making process.

Images discussed in the podcast are shared on my Instagram and twitter (@missa_artclass)

Aug 15, 202252:41
Considering Art History as a Creative Tool to Question, Reform and Elevate Education with Varda Nisar

Considering Art History as a Creative Tool to Question, Reform and Elevate Education with Varda Nisar

In this episode, I talk with Concordia University Art History Ph.D. Candidate and Public Scholar Varda Nisar, who drinks coffee latte, about her experience embracing art history and artwork as a way of generating inquiry in student learning.  In the podcast, we explore the installation artwork of Pakistan artist Ayaz Jokhio and discuss decolonizing perspectives within established educational routines.

Images discussed in the podcast are shared on my Instagram and twitter (@missa_artclass)

Jul 18, 202244:59
A Phenomenological Approach to Performance Art while slowing down with the Bureau of Non-Competitive Research with Stacey Cann

A Phenomenological Approach to Performance Art while slowing down with the Bureau of Non-Competitive Research with Stacey Cann

In this episode, I talk with Concordia University Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate Stacey Cann, who drinks coffee (with obligatory timbits, newly rebranded as timbiebs), about her experience embracing slow design within her research and her performance art.  Her work involves durational elements whose mundane nature borders on the absurd, and she is interested in how we present ourselves in the commonplace of our daily life.  In the podcast, we talk about Stacey's work 'Tally' and discuss ideas realized in John Baldessari's work 'I will not make any more boring art'.

Jun 27, 202246:43
Exploring the Intersection of Nature and Culture within Museum Spaces with Jacob Le Gallais

Exploring the Intersection of Nature and Culture within Museum Spaces with Jacob Le Gallais

In this episode, I talk with Concordia University Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate Jacob Le Gallais, who drinks Twinnings English Breakfast tea with oat milk, about his experiences in Art Education.  As a visual artist, researcher, and educator from Montreal, Jacob's work combines participatory and collaborative explorations with collage and craft practice, most often to examine notions of the human-animal relationship and the Anthropocene.  In the podcast, we look at Pietro Longhi's Clara the Rhinoceros from 1751 and discuss how we (humans) use art to create an intersection of nature and culture within museum spaces to influence our narrative of our human-animal relationship.  

Jun 13, 202201:26:58
The Art Process and its impacts on Secondary Art Education with Nancy Long

The Art Process and its impacts on Secondary Art Education with Nancy Long

In this episode, I talk with Concordia University Instructor and Ph.D Candidate Nancy Long, who drinks chamomile tea with honey, about her experiences in Art Education.  Nancy was a secondary art teacher in Montreal for the past twenty years and is now studying how to facilitate a more effective process within the art classroom.  She is interested in helping art students embrace their failures as necessary learning experiences.  In the podcast, we look at Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's Poetry Machine, their touching homage to Montreal's own Leonard Cohen.  Nancy also discusses how so many artists, even Jacques Louis David constantly re-work and re-think their masterpieces and inspirations from prolific Concordia professor Robert (Bob) Gifford. 

Images discussed in the podcast are shared on my Instagram and twitter (@missa_artclass)

May 30, 202245:42