"At this time in my life, I’m ready to accept or own a kind of romance and melancholy or melodrama that I wasn’t ready to reveal before. It was always there in my inner life as an artist, but I was too afraid to share it."
—Laurie Simmons
Art21 Educators
Art21 Educators is an intensive, year-long professional development initiative and learning community. The program is designed to support teachers of K-12 visual arts, language arts, humanities, social studies, and media arts who are interested in bringing contemporary art, artists, and themes into classroom teaching and learning, and broadening their curricular focus to include inquiry into contemporary issues and questions that demand cross-curricular knowledge and ways of thinking through contemporary art.