The Art Engager

This week I’m delighted to be talking to Claire Bradshaw.

Claire is an experienced coach, trainer and facilitator who brings a lot of positive energy and curiosity to her work.

In today’s chat we talk…

Awe is an emotion that can be triggered by being around something larger than yourself, that’s not immediately understandable.

It's that feeling you get when you look up and see millions of stars in …

This week on the podcast: I’m delighted to be talking to Jo-Anne Sunderland Bowe and we're talking about how to teach with objects.  

Jo-Anne is director of Heritec Limited, a UK-based heritage educat…

For our thirtieth episode, I’m delighted to be talking to Catherine Chastney.

Catherine is an art educator and owner of social enterprise I Picture This. Catherine’s work focuses on bringing art and …

So in today’s episode I’m talking about how to develop a reflective practice in your work.

A reflective practice is simply the art of thinking about or reflecting on what you do. It is a way of recog…

Today I’m focusing on colour.

Colour is one of the 7 elements of art along with shape, line, form, texture, value and space. It's a vast subject - but today I don't want to focus on colour theory or …

Today I’m delighted to be talking to Kenia Santos - an educator based in Brazil with specialisations and interests in art history, philosophical inquiry, social and emotional learning, thinking routi…

The traditional lecture-style guided tour is dead, long live the interactive tour!

Well, it’s not actually, it’s still alive and kicking in some quarters, but in my opinion it shouldn’t be the way we…

This week’s episode is inspired by recent classes in the Visible Thinking Membership where we've been exploring the concept of using drawing and sketching for slow looking and observation. 

When peopl…

Today I’m really excited to be chatting to Louise Thompson - a museums and wellbeing consultant as well as the health and wellbeing manager at Manchester Art Gallery for the past 9 years. We’re talki…

Have you ever asked a question that was greeted with nothing but silence? You look around and all you can see are blank faces.

The silence is scary because you don’t know what people are thinking. It …

In the past week I’ve just started teaching my Visible Thinking in the Museum Online course (VTMO) to a group of international educators excited to start confidently leading  discussions around art a…

Today I’m really excited to be introducing our first guest chat on the podcast - Samantha Boffin.

Samantha is a voice actor, director and audio drama coach working with clients on voice technique, voi…

Today I’m talking about the 6 core elements in my popular Visible Thinking in the Museum Online (VTMO) course - elements that you should also have in your educator repertoire to connect with your aud…

Would you love to learn how to design and lead engaging discussions around art and objects in just 4 days?

On Monday through to Thursday next week, I’ll be sharing 4 principles that are key 🔑 for cre…

Today I’m sharing some thoughts about how you can successfully design and lead engaging discussion-based programmes around art and objects.

I’ll be talking briefly about the difference between differ…

Leading tours and educational programmes that are based on discussion, inquiry and interaction can be a scary business. Both for you and for your participants.

And if you’re about to take your first s…

Over the past year, I’ve attended some fantastic interactive online sessions and I’ve led hundreds of my own.⁠

I’ve also attended some pretty dull one-way presentations and long lectures.

No matter wha…

Today I’m doing a deep dive on the most famous and well-known thinking routine of them all - See Think Wonder. 

I’m going to share with you how you can use this thinking routine in your art discussion…

How can you improve your questioning skills without resorting to reading long lists of tips and techniques and do's and don'ts?

What can you use to help you create, sort and evaluate better questions…