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Author Archives: Andrea Kantrowitz

for Brette (and everyone else coming back from spring break)
why it may be difficult to re-focus on work: your mind is elsewhere
By the way, Immordino-Yang does great work on Creativity, Education and the Brain
Rest Is Not Idleness
Implications of the Brain’s Default Mode for Human Development and Education
When people wakefully rest in the functional MRI scanner, their minds wander, and they engage a so-called default mode (DM) of neural processing that is relatively suppressed when attention is focused on the outside world. Accruing evidence suggests that DM brain systems activated during rest are also important for active, internally focused psychosocial mental processing, for example, when recalling personal memories, imagining the future, and feeling social emotions with moral connotations. Here the authors review evidence for the DM and relations to psychological functioning, including associations with mental health and cognitive abilities like reading comprehension and divergent thinking. This article calls for research into the dimensions of internally focused thought, ranging from free-form daydreaming and off-line consolidation to intensive, effortful abstract thinking, especially with socioemotional relevance. It is argued that the development of some socioemotional skills may be vulnerable to disruption by environmental distraction, for example, from certain educational practices or overuse of social media. The authors hypothesize that high environmental attention demands may bias youngsters to focus on the concrete, physical, and immediate aspects of social situations and self, which may be more compatible with external attention. They coin the term constructive internal reflection and advocate educational practices that promote effective balance between external attention and internal reflection.
20 female artists who are pushing figurative painting forward
Hi all– this article was particularly relevant for Taylor, but may be of interest to others:
For Brette and Melissa (and everyone else): Sarah Rehmer
Spring Schedule
Planning for summer
- Jenn
- Taylor
- Brette
- Lindsay W
- Melissa
Here’s what you wrote on the 15th. You can use this as the basis of your initial draft summer plan, due Next Monday, Jan 30
More on artists mapping….from the Big Bang onward…..
Paul Chaney talking about his drawings made recently at Donetsk. Super interesting diagrams of nature-culture interactions, going back to the Big Bang, and forward to this coal town in the Ukraine.
http://tranzitdisplay.cz/cs/vystavy/paul-chaney-donetsk-syndrome-diagrammatic-vernisaz-15-12-1900
Crocheted Coral Reefs at the Museum of Art and Design til Jan 22, go see it!!
Crochet Coral Reef: TOXIC SEAS celebrates the tenth anniversary of the “Crochet Coral Reef” (2005–present), an ongoing project by sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim and their Los Angeles–based organization, the Institute For Figuring. Mixing crocheted yarn with plastic trash, the work fuses mathematics, marine biology, feminist art practices, and craft to produce large-scale coralline landscapes, both beautiful and blighted. At once figurative, collaborative, worldly, and dispersed, the “Crochet Coral Reef” offers a tender response to the dual calamities facing marine life: climate change and plastic trash.
http://madmuseum.org/exhibition/crochet-coral-reef-toxic-seas
Last reading of the semester
For our last reading on the creative process for this semester, I am giving you a chapter in press that I created for a book on applied cognitive psychology, entitled,”Representations in Mind and World.”
What artists do (and say) when they draw: pdf-chapter
New Reading for November 15
It was a pleasure speaking with most of you, and I’m looking forward to see your work in person in the winter session! Many of you have aluded to the difficulty of making art when you are spending almost all your time and energy dealing with under-resourced and sometimes chaotic schools and classrooms. This week, this reading seemed timely. As usual, creative and visual responses are welcome!
Vermeer in Bosnia by Lawrence Weschler