stunningArt
socialJustice
skillfulTeaching
Issue 1November 2026

an education notebook on art & fashion, justice, and the work of teaching

Issue 1 · November 2026

Side view of a shoe with a strap across the instep, a jewelled crescent-shaped buckle, and rhinestones set into a curved heel, photographed against a plain grey backdrop.

cover

maker
Harris & Ewing
work
Shoe, between 1909 and 1914
medium
glass negative
credit
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-hec-00537 · public domain

in this issue

13 stories
01

the machine in the art room

A 1951 design quarterly still knows something about teaching taste, tools, and the difference between the two. Deep Dive 02

on the tined fork

A brief archaeology of the instrument that taught the human mouth to keep its distance from the blade. Deep Dive 03

a grade is not feedback

A number tells a student where they landed. It does not tell them how to move. Quick Take 04

stunning art / social justice / skillful teaching

 05

empathy and consequences

 06

the portrait unit

Six weeks, one question: who gets to be painted? Case Study 07

portrait in five lines

A 45-minute drawing warm-up that turns looking into a conversation. Classroom Ready 08

free images for the art room

Six open-access collections you can project, print and remix without asking permission. Resource Roundup 09

the lecture and the studio

Two rooms, two theories of how anyone learns anything. Comparison 10

a film about scale

Nine minutes from a picnic blanket to the edge of the known universe — and back. Screening 11

the wall label

Forty words beside a painting decide how most visitors will see it. Plate 12

seven studies

A week of looking, drawing and looking again. Portfolio 13

six views of a classroom

Photographs from a single term, seen one at a time. Exhibition