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When is a painting not just a painting? When it's also a giant pumping blood vessel. 🦟 Watch how Trey Abdella combines sculpture, painting, and assemblage to create art that embraces the misery of the American dream → bit.ly/3XY7HtZ

“Craft is a way of seeing that considers care, skill, technique, material, and process. It demands that we look for the unseen, the people, and the hands behind the work." Makda Amdetsyon considers craft as pedagogy. 🪡 READ the full essay → art21.org/read/craft-lab…

“Many of the protagonists in my paintings are people in the situations I've found myself in: on a bus, in a shop, just people doing what people do.” Lubaina Himid finds new ways to invite viewers to participate in the vital and provocative conversations at the heart of her work.

Trey Abdella leads Art21 down a rabbit hole. Now streaming for free on YouTube.

While working on his film “Amongst the Disquiet” (2024) on the docks in Buras, Louisiana, artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen and his crew have one chance to get the perfect shot.

Artist Alan Michelson discusses the long history behind his work "The Knowledge Keepers," currently on view in front of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. READ the full interview → bit.ly/48OaM64

Dyani White Hawk describes "the epic battle" that takes place in her studio. Do you have your own strategies for achieving the balance between reflection and work?

Educator Julia Soderholm knew that Nick Cave's "Soundsuits" would appeal to her Grade 2 students because of the artworks' tactility and playfulness. 📖 Read the full article: "Sound & Performance: Exploring Performance Art in Elementary School" → bit.ly/4ijdfZx

Join Art21 for our Educator Workshops this December! Sign up here → bit.ly/3XkBtZF

Screening Society makes it easy to host your own Art21 event for free. Register to screen "Between Worlds" with your local community → art21.org/screening-soci…

When a flood damaged years’ worth of artworks kept in storage, Sophie Calle decided to embrace the decay. Art21 goes underground to attend the funeral for Calle's pieces.

In the 1980s, Lubaina Himid knew she had to look at the art world as something that could be changed. Watch the full documentary → bit.ly/47rWS9e

What will your work have done? 🎨 Lubaina Himid in "Between Worlds," now streaming for free → bit.ly/3Wv0HnR

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🧑‍🏫 A new Educator Guide is now available! The artists in the latest episode of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" use their creative practices to break down divides that otherwise seemed fixed. 📖 Download the "Between Worlds" Educator Guide → bit.ly/4odb9fJ

“Liminality actually empowers people.” Artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen envisions different ways that the wounds of the past can be healed and even become something beautiful. 📺 Watch Nguyen in “Between Worlds” → bit.ly/48VuIVk

Embrace the ugly at this Art21 Educator Workshop! Join us for a virtual session on November 5 at 7:00PM. Together we'll unpack misconceptions of art as beauty and consider how ugliness can be productive in art making. 🤓 Register here → bit.ly/43IuXPU

For artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen, the objects in his films are more than just props. They’re the protagonists, functioning as active agents in the untold stories he tells through his sculpture and filmmaking. 📺 Watch Nguyen in “Between Worlds” → bit.ly/4qAQXGi

Thank you to everyone who made the second edition of Art21 at the Movies such a success! It is always a joy to experience Art21 films on the big screen in the company of those who believe in the power of art and storytelling.

How can art educators balance a rigorous school life with their own creative careers? Read "Artist/Educator: AKA 'My Two Full-Time Jobs'" by Gregg Emery → art21.org/read/artist-ed…