Also, I’d like to add another to your list…
“How can we as artists continue our practice and begin to incorporate what we do outside of our classrooms into what we teach and share with our students, so that they may come to know us as contemporary artists in their lives?”

One of the ideas that comes to mind in thinking of the first question above is technology. Digital arts is more than an art field, it’s an opening into worlds of art, communication and literacy and it crosses with much ease into various worlds of art education. Never before this time in art ed history, have we been given so much access to so much art, and so many artists as we now have access to, and despite districts trying to harness sites like youtube, the world of art is at our student’s fingertips. It will be our challenge to help students navigate the interwoven world of art, and through a willingness to become more tech literate ourselves, I think we will find some answers and make connections.

I was struck by this idea from Dr. Sherry Mayo, who spoke about “Integrating Social Media Into Studio Arts Curricula: Practice-Based Model”. She shared some projects she does that incorporate social media in studio art education. She mentioned that social media is something most of our students are already connected to, especially from middle school aged and up, and that creating curriculum that uses these types of digital media with our proper guidance we can create a group of responsible social media users and contemporary artists in our students.