💭 The second edition of FACT's online journal, an open-access contemporary art journal that delves into our artistic programme, is now live! 📚 This edition explores Resolution, a seven-year programme that brought together artists, people in prison, their families, criminologists, and justice professionals to question how we think about crime, punishment, and change. 💡 Generously supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Resolution presented a new approach to making art within the Justice System. Instead of focusing on therapy or rehabilitation alone, it centred listening, collaboration, and lived experience – creating artworks that speak to time, identity, and human dignity. Highlights include:  ⭐️ Dr Nicola Triscott on art, justice, and the practice of listening ⭐️ Dr Vid Simoniti on meaning versus impact in socially engaged art ⭐️ Andrew Neilson on campaigning and advocacy ⭐️ FACT's Learning Team on becoming listeners and building ethical capacity ⭐️ Dr Emma Murray reflecting on her decade as FACT’s Criminologist in Residence ⭐️ Amartey Golding in conversation on chainmail, time, and collective creation Read the journal for free → https://lnkd.in/e-GNrv3E 📸 Katrina Palmer, Sentences (2024). Photo by Rob Battersby.

Arts integration enriches core content by building creativity, critical thinking, and deeper engagement. In this article, Timea Willemse outlines strategies for weaving visual arts into everyday instruction. 👀 Check it out and read more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gzC5Uj2y #ArtsIntegration #ElementaryEducation #TeacherDevelopment #CreativeClassrooms #OneClassroomOver #teachersfollowteachers #kindergartenteacher #firstgradeteacher #secondgradeteacher #thirdgradeteacher #fourthgradeteacher #fifthgradeteacher #elementaryteacher #teacherspayteachers #teachersofinstagram

Arts integration enriches core content by building creativity, critical thinking, and deeper engagement. In this article, Timea Willemse outlines strategies for weaving visual arts into everyday instruction. 👀 Check it out and read more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gzZUEzgG #ArtsIntegration #ElementaryEducation #TeacherDevelopment #CreativeClassrooms #OneClassroomOver #teachersfollowteachers #kindergartenteacher #firstgradeteacher #secondgradeteacher #thirdgradeteacher #fourthgradeteacher #fifthgradeteacher #elementaryteacher #teacherspayteachers #teachersofinstagram

New Insights Article! 📖 This week, Anne Rappa shares a step-by-step approach to identifying, evaluating, and insuring your campus's valuable fine arts collections. Learn how to protect the assets that contribute to your university's culture and academic life! Read it here: https://buff.ly/T1vfZWW #URMIAInsights #FineArts #RiskManagement

Uche Okeke's archival sensibility anticipated today's digital stewardship practices. His sketchbooks and field notes reflected an early commitment to what is now called collection intelligence - a way of documenting the lives, stories, and material contexts of African art. #ArtDocumentation #CollectionIntelligence #UcheOkeke #DigitalHeritage

Outside typical art markets, in cities with under-appreciated cultural legacies and high concentrations of wealth, Atlanta is part of a region that is “sometimes fetishized, always marginal,” says Sarah Higgins, executive and artistic director of the local publication Art Papers.

What happens when someone looks at art? 🎭 Psychologist Ralf Cox (Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences - University of Groningen) researches how people not only experience art mentally, but with their bodies and emotions. His goal is to try and understand how art affects us by using methods measuring even the slightest bodily changes. According to Cox and his team the experience of art is both complex and personal. By studying this experience with a multilayered approach, he creates insight into the power of art and how this differs between people and situations. Cox wants to give something back to artists and the public, transcending limitations of academic publications. By measuring the experience of the spectator and sharing these results with artists, the scientific and artistic aspects blend together. Click the link below to read more about Ralf Cox’s research on the experience of art. 👇 https://lnkd.in/eBCZk9w9 #art #experience #spectator #universityofgroningen #rijksuniversiteitgroningen Photo: Henk Veenstra / thanks to Kunstpunt Groningen

“Can’t anyone do it?” It is a question museum professionals hear more often than you would think. On the surface, curation looks straightforward: choose a few objects, give them numbers, write some labels, and arrange them neatly in storage or on display. But the truth is much deeper. Curatorship requires scholarship and research, collections care, audience engagement, ethics, cultural awareness, and a commitment to stewardship that stretches across generations. The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Curator Core Competencies make this clear: https://lnkd.in/exP-sUU6 Curators are expected to connect history, science, and culture while also demonstrating leadership, strategic planning, and public service. They do not just preserve objects. They shape how we see ourselves and our communities, past and present. So next time you are struck by an exhibit at a National Park Service site, whether it is a moving artifact, a thought provoking story, or an invitation to dig deeper, remember that behind it stands a trained curator who has made a thousand thoughtful choices to create that experience and care for the collection. #MuseumLife #Curatorship #MuseumsMatter #CulturalHeritage #AAM

Art can challenge assumptions, reveal untold stories and inspire action. The We Draw The Lines workshop brought this to life, guided by Martín Vargas and Duane Montney, two artists featured in Beyond Survival: Works on Paper by Artists Incarcerated in Michigan. Participants explored hands-on exercises and storytelling, experiencing how creative expression conveys resilience, perspective, and vision beyond incarceration. Hosted by Michigan Justice Fund in partnership with the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), the workshop is part of a multi-year effort to uplift incarcerated artists and connect their work to broader conversations about justice, creativity, and community. It demonstrates how art can build understanding, spark reflection and bridge communities. Read the full story to see how art becomes a bridge for understanding and engagement: https://bit.ly/46Am4IN

100k hours of recorded talks dating back 50 years need digitising! This is very important for certain parts of mathematics, specifically category theory, where a lot of material was communicated in talks and not published. But it's not just CT, but also physics, with recordings of big names etc.