The Teaching Artist Journal: A place for teaching artists to connect, share and build.

The Teaching Artist Journal is a print and online quarterly devoted to the work and thought of teaching artists and all those working at the intersection of the arts and learning. TAJ is published by Routledge and is edited and produced under the auspices of the Office of Academic Research at Columbia College Chicago.

The mission of The Teaching Artist Journal:

-To advance effective, innovative practice by teaching artists and to document such practice.

-To serve as a vital, international forum, a practical and theoretical tool, and a point of connection for teaching artists of all kinds.

-To advocate for the interests of teaching artists.

-To forge new connections and new methods of communication among arts educators.

-To share the artistic, educational and social insights gained by teaching artists with the broader fields of education and arts practice.

-To advocate for access to arts experience for all people.

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Prison Creative Arts Project Annual Art Show and Detroit Connections or What I Did Over Spring Break

Judith Tannenbaum

I’m just home from Ann Arbor where I spent the last week of March at the 13th Annual Prison Art Show. This year, more than three hundred pieces of artwork were displayed at the Duderstadt Center Gallery at the University of Michigan.  I gave a speech as part of the celebrations, had good talks with Prison Creative Arts Project students, got to hear men and women very recently released from prison speak about what making art and the Art Show meant during their years inside, witnessed an excellent teaching arts program in many of its manifestations, and shared deep conversations with professors Buzz Alexander and Janie Paul about this work that involves both art-making and social justice.