This new embroided piece is a contribution to the 'tiny pricks project' created and curated by Diana Weymar. This series holds a creative space in a tumultuous political climate. Tiny Pricks Project counterbalances the impermanence of Twitter and other social media, an...

I was thinking about Claudy Jongstra, an amazing felt artist who makes monumental felt pieces and draws attention to landscape, disappearing flora and fauna and how to care for our common home better. 

She has her own flock of sheep and runs a biodynamic farm. Here she...

Artistic research for Education and Learning. 

After John set a theorical framework we were set to work on the methodology of narrative research/narratology. Using good ethics and ensuring a caring and trusting relationship with the owner of the story. 

We needed to appl...

#thank you for being an artist Kevin van Braak!

Gemma and Allesandra took us to the studio of Kevin van Braak situated on a industrial terrain in Arnhem as part of our Arte Util experience. I was incredibly impressed by the richness and layeredness of his works and proj...

John introduces us more about the program and set out some Ideas about being an artist educator and important ideas about the program of the master. 

the following are just notes, please do not consider it a piece of final writing.

Art educators are agents of change

There...

A week from now we will spend 5 days in Venice to eat Italian Gelato and visit the Venice Biennale. 

I am very much looking forward to go and see this vast art biennale as it is curated by Christine Marcel who has ideas about art and what art can bring to the table that...