On this page is a varied and colorful mix of engaging teaching and learning resources for art + design. Scroll down to see the various categories I have created for this content. My hope is you find something(s) useful and INSPIRING! Send me great resources you think should be added: blakesmith.ubc@gmail.com or bsmith09@risd.edu.

 

Photography Resources

• Tutorial King (Photoshop)
• Contemplative Photography
• Sensory Photography (Photovoice)
• NPR on Photography
• NY Times Lens Blog
• Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton
• Byron Wolfe’s Everyday: A Yearlong Visual Diary
• Klett and Wolfe collaborations + Mark Klett Photography
• Museum of Contemporary Photography
• National Gallery of Canada: Photography Institute!
• Lensculture
• Gallery44 Centre for Contemporary Photography (Toronto)
• BBC ‘In Pictures’
• National Geographic Photography and Photo of the Day: National Geographic
• PetaPixel
• PetaPixel article on editing RAW using Lightroom Mobile app
• PetaPixel Big Fat List of Photo Documentaries!
• PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY: Nicole Croy’s photo website (presenter at NAEA 2017)
• Gizmondo
• SLRLounge
• Reframing Photography (Routledge) – website for a great book!
• Ryan McGinley’s Advice to Young Photographers: Don’t Compete (by M. Leifheit)
• The Way Things Are: Fred Herzog’s Art of Observation (by Timothy Taylor, Canadian Art, 2013)
• Essay on UK photographer Paul Graham Sliding Sight, Setting Suns by David Chandler (excerpt from ‘A Thing There Was That Mattered’ in Paul Graham, 2009)
• By Paul Graham: ‘Photography is easy, photography is difficult’ (in Yale’s 2009 MFA photo book)
• On photographer Stephen Shore – American Surfaces, Uncommon Places ‘Then I Found Myself Seeing Pictures All The Time’ 
• On photographer Nan Goldin and the Cookie portfolio ‘The Wound Which Speaks Of Unremembered Time’
• Eric Kim Street Photography Blog + check out his free Street Photography Composition Manual
• Jpeg Magazine Copyright and Misappropriation
• Juxtapoze Magazine
• JPG Magazine (waiting for updated content on their site)
• Black and White Photography Magazine
• Black Strathcona (local to Vancouver)
• Hope In Shadows: Portraits of Our Community (local to Vancouver)
• Fifty Crows Social Change Photography
• The National #Selfie Portrait Gallery & NASA’s recent Global Selfie Project
• MET New Documentary Tradition in Photography
• Aperture Foundation – tip: See their online Shop for incredible photo books!
• Center for Creative Photography (Tuscon, Arizona + largest archive of Ansel Adams’s work)
• International Center of Photography (NYC, NY)
• Tate Modern and Tate Britain
• Museum of Modern Art (NYC, NY) + San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Fran, CA)
• Magnum Photos (new site & see archive site)
• On photographer Ishiuchi Miyako at the Getty. See also Postwar Shadows
• Journal article: Memory as a Method for Filmmaking by Emilio Angel Reyes Bassail
• 🙂 My UBC doctoral dissertation on photography: Being Against Disappearance: A Photographic Inquiry Through an A/r/tographic Lens (2020)
• **Also see photo-related apps below**

Art Teaching & Learning Resources: A Wild, Fun Mix

• The Art of Ed: An Online Resource for Art Teachers
• From The Art of Ed ‘blog of the year’ contest: Painted Paper Art + Arteascuola + Artful Artsy Amy + Eastartroom
• Google Cultural Institute – Art Project
• Habla: The Center for Language and Culture
• International Centre of Art for Social Change (Judith Marcuse Projects, SFU – Vancouver)
• PBS Arts 21 – Season 8 has 4 Vancouver artists in it!
• Olivie Gude NAEA e-portfolio & Olivia Gude’s noteworthy Spiral Workshop (lots of curriculum ideas + artists here!)
• The Incredible Art Department (lots here for art teachers, including K-12 lessons + handouts)
• Ted Talks every art teacher should watch (article)
• Best art documentaries on Netflix (article)
• George Ella Lyon ‘Where I’m From’ Poetry (autobiographical poetry)
• The Jealous Curator (blog + has a great podcast called ‘Art for your ear’)
• Radiolab (podcast)
• Intelligence Squared (great debates)
• Learning to Love You More (now with SFMOMA)
• On Teaching Creativity (by Bartel)
• Floodwall: A Tribute to New Orleans in the Aftermath of Katrina (the art of Jan Napoli: The Floodwall Project)
• 5 Minute Film Festival: Culturally Responsive Teaching (from Edutopia)
• Teaching with the New York Times AND New Yorks Times Lesson Plans
• Gordon Smith’s Artists for Kids
• ArtCity (Winnipeg)
• Aboriginal Healing Foundation + Truth and Reconciliation Canada: Calls To Action
• New York Times Arts section (also check out the ‘Daily Paper’ for a quick and succinct daily news overview for your students)
• NYC Street Art (article)
• Photography tips for sightseeing trips (with lots of links)
• Vancouver Art Gallery
• Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver)
• Bill Reid Gallery (Vancouver)
• Presentation House (Vancouver)
• Equinox Gallery (Vancouver)
• The Photographer’s Ethical Toolkit
• Parker Palmer’s The Courage to Teach

Curriculum (Arts)

• From NAEA: Learning in a Visual Age: The Critical Importance of a Visual Arts Education (you can dload the pdf)
• BC’s Education Plan
• Existing BC Visual Arts Curriculum Documents – All levels (Ministry of Education)
• BC Visual Arts Curriculum Gr10-12 (Draft, in use by Sept 2017 by teachers)
• link to downloadable Core Competencies (6)
• BC Visual Arts Curriculum Gr K-9 (online) & downloadable pdf of K-9 Curriculum Overview with Big Ideas: ArtEd_Learning Standards K-9 BC
• Aboriginal Worldviews & Perspectives in the Classroom: Moving Forward
• USA (new) National Visual Arts Standards & Common Core Standards

Art + Interesting Podcasts (ps: I need recommendations – thank you!)

• The Jealous Curator: Art for your ear
• The Art of Education – Art Ed Radio (podcast for art teachers)
• Best art podcasts of 2021 (article)
• Art podcasts in tune with the time (article)

On Writing

• On life writing (see Carl Leggo’s page under ‘Lifewriters’)
• On loss: Facebook Memorials
• Writing your 6 word memoir (great writing/art prompt) – from NPR and Smith’s Magazine

 

UBC PRACTICUM WRITING PROMPTS

• UBC Community Field Experience (June) INTERNATIONAL & ELEMENTARY CFE Weekly Writing Prompts from Blake_2019_V2
• UBC Community Field Experience (May) SECONDARY CFE Weekly Writing Prompts from BlakeSmith_2019

 

Visual Journals & Arts-Based Research & Teaching

• Visual Journaling_BSmith (this is a pdf I created for UBC CFE2015 – many resources are included)
• Tips on photographing journals and art cards
• 1000 Journals Project (also see 1001 Journals)
• Dan Eldon: The Journey is the Destination (book & great website showing his journals)
• *You can follow my visual journals board on Pinterest: @blakesmithart

• Art Therapy visual journaling prompts (article)
• Visual journaling website from Michael Bell
• Journal Fodder Junkies + see their book
• A/r/tography site (publications and resources on being an artist/researcher/teacher)
• Context Cartography & Psychogeography *Both interesting if you are into maps…
• WalkingLab
• ABR’s Studio Blog (Alberta) – lots of great resources here!
• SenseLab @ Concordia University
• For UBC SEL Cohort (Feb 2019). Note there are 2 key documents here to download & check out!:  #1) A pdf of ideas & resources on creativity from my mini-workshop here: Creative Tools & Imagination Lab_Blake Smith FA_Feb 14 2019 and 2)**THIS PDF HAS 3 PARTS TO LOOK AT: [A] I include the last chapter of the book Sparks of Genius by Root-Bernstein (2001) on “Synthesizing Education” [B] Minds-On Resources for creative tools and thinking, starting p9 of this pdf and [C] BOOK COVERS FROM MY COLLECTION OF SOME AWESOME BOOKS I RECOMMEND ON CREATIVITY, ART, & MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES! Enjoy! Find it all here: Sparks ch & blake’s books-compressed

Professional Development 

• International Society for Education Through Art (InSEA)
• Canadian Society for Education Through Art (CSEA)
• ~CSEA’s publications to know/subscribe to: Canadian Art Teacher (and) Canadian Review of Art Education: Research and Issues
• National Art Education Association (NAEA – in US, largest art education assoc. worldwide)
• ~NAEA’s publications to know/subscribe to: Art Education, Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research
• British Columbia Art Teachers Association (BCATA)
• UNESCO

Free & Paid Learning Online

• Adobe Creative Cloud Tutorials (great videos on many Adobe products and techniques)
• Apple Learning Exchange & Mac in Education
• ITunes U for Ipad
• Apple Training Tutorials on lynda.com (and lynda.com as a general fantastic, free resource!)
• Allison.com (free online courses in web design, publishing, etc.)
• (paid) The Art of Photography Masterclass with Annie Leibovitz
• (paid) Photography classes on Skillshare

Tech, Teaching, & Integrated Learning

• New: LOTS OF GREAT RESOURCES!!!! Learning with your children in times of quaratine by Dr. Marina Milner-Bolotin from UBC
• Pop Culture Classroom
• Richard Byrne EdTech Presentation: Visual Stories, resources, & more (lots here)
• Teaching with Tech
• Edmodo
• Edudemic (great articles 7 characteristics of a digitally competent teacher & 10 new technologies you should know about)
• Pew Internet Research & American Life Project
• Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology & Pedagogy (excellent articles & free toolkit)
• BCIT Digital Arts (local)
• Code.org
• PBS Kids Design Squad
• Digital Media Ethics (University of Wisconsin)
• Digital Youth Research (Berkeley)
• Digital Media & Learning
• Scratch @ MIT

Apps, IPads, Smartphones, WordPress…

• New: Getty Unshuttered (a free photo sharing app from Getty Museum)
• Creative art apps I love (iPad): Paper 53, Inspiro, Sketchbook Pro
• A few photo apps/sites/tech items: Viewbug, Triggertrap (remote for timelapse!), Vsco, Afterlight, Lightroom Mobile, Instagram…help me grow this list – email me or leave a comment! 
• Haiku Deck (for ipad & as web app – a simple, visual alternative to Powerpoint)
• IPhone/IPad Apps for Art Teachers (Pinterest)
• Digital Classroom (Pinterest)
• IPhone Photography Awards
• 34 Smart Ideas for Using Smartphones In The Classroom
• IPad Artroom
• Best Apps for Drawing and Painting
• 10 Time Saving Videos All About IPads in the Classroom (from Edudemic)
• Android Tablet apps
• WordPress (make your own website) & WordPress Beginner

 

Random+Beautiful+Important: Things That Inspire Me

(coming soon, possibly on a new page)