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Category: Discover Visual Literacy

Visual Messages: IVLA Exhibition Highlights the Work of 22 International Artists

September 26, 2020 The Curved House Editor

The 2020 International Visual Literacy Association conference, held online for the first time, includes an innovative new online exhibition featuring…

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Posted in: Discover Visual Literacy, Art and Artists

Call for Proposals: Visual Literacy Research Grants from IVLA

July 27, 2020 The Curved House Editor

The International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) invites interested members of theorganization to apply for research grants of up to $3,000…

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Posted in: Grants and Funding, Discover Visual Literacy

Guggenheim Presents A Year with Children 2020

May 22, 2020 The Curved House Editor

Guggenheim Long-standing Arts Education Initiative, Learning Through Art, presents A Year with Children: an ebook of original works by New York City public school Students from Grades two through six.

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Alexia: what happens when a brain injury makes you forget how to read

May 21, 2020 The Curved House Editor

Randi Starrfelt, University of Copenhagen Once we have successfully learned how to read, it continues to be easy for most…

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Posted in: Discover Visual Literacy

What is Visual Literacy?

May 6, 2020 The Curved House Editor

The basic definition of visual literacy is the ability to read, write and create visual images. It is a concept…

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Our ability to recognise letters could be hard-wired into our brains

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Paul Breen, University of Westminster Back in the 1960s, the linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky claimed that the human…

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Posted in: Discover Visual Literacy, Science

‘At once silent and eloquent’: a glimpse of Pakistani visual poetry

October 4, 2019 The Curved House Editor

Durriya Kazi, University of Karachi Whose mischief created a world of beseechers? Each petitioner is seen wearing a garment of…

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Posted in: Discover Visual Literacy, 21st Century Literacy

Why an education in visual arts is the key to arming students for the future

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Ted Snell, University of Western Australia Visual skills are essential for a sophisticated workforce, yet we offer so little education…

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Posted in: Discover Visual Literacy, Art and Artists, education, visual literacy

Six images reveal how we ‘see’ data and capture invisible science

March 21, 2019 The Curved House Editor

Andrea Rassell, RMIT University As an experimental video-maker working at scales smaller than molecules, I surround myself in a variety…

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Posted in: Discover Visual Literacy, Uncategorized

Titus Kaphar’s TED Talk: Discovering Visual Intelligence

August 3, 2017 The Curved House Editor

Artist Titus Kaphar makes paintings and sculptures that wrestle with the struggles of the past while speaking to the diversity…

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Posted in: Discover Visual Literacy, Art and Artists, visual literacy

Indigenous Literacy Needs More than ‘Sounding Out’ Words

May 6, 2020 The Curved House Editor

Stewart Riddle, University of Southern Queensland Closing the gap in Indigenous literacy is a problem without a simple solution. But…

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Posted in: Discover Visual Literacy, education, 21st Century Literacy

The Role of Visual Literacy in the Birth of Observational Science

December 28, 2016 The Curved House Editor

Deborah Curtiss Abstract De Humani Corporis Fabrica, a seven-volume opus by Andreas Vesalius, published in 1543, is possibly the most…

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Learning to Look Across Disciplines: Visual Literacy for Museum Audiences by Kate Blake

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Kate Blake Abstract Since 2011, teaching visual literacy has been one of the strategic objectives of the Toledo Museum of…

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Posted in: Discover Visual Literacy
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