With the concept Wicked Arts Education, we advocate a form of arts education that is contemporary, inclusive and cutting-edge. Wicked Arts Education offers opportunities to learn about ourselves, the arts and the world. The websites, podcasts, studies and tools on this page are linked to two main publications:
Wicked Arts Assignments (2020, Valiz): discusses the power of the arts assignment. It provides both a theoretical view on arts assignments and nearly a hundred creative, bold and provocative assignments that were collected from contemporary arts educators.
Wicked Arts Education (2024, Valiz): a workbook that will help you to build arts curricula from scratch, based on a clear and appealing design model for a Wicked Arts Curriculum.
Worksheets Wicked Arts Education
In this link you will find several worksheets to shape your Wicked arts curriculum, or to assess the work. These can be used in all art disciplines as well as in interdisciplinary projects. You can download these worksheets for free, print them and use them in various contexts. We also invite you to make up your own ‘rubrics’.
Share your results!
Here are two examples of assignments from the book Wicked Arts Assignments. You can submit your results on the website www.wickedartsassignments.com and view the submissions from others!
Interviews artists
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Sanne Kersten interviewed artists who contributed to the book Wicked Arts Assignments with their assignments. The interviews were published by Mister Motley; read them below. All interviews are in Dutch.
Leren de wereld te bewonen door wederkerigheid – a conversation with Sabina Enéa Téari
‘Creativiteit stimuleren is als het trainen van spieren’ – a conversation with Andrea Palašti
Als kunstenaar voor de klas staan – a conversation with Sterre Boerkamp
Publications
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From identity crisis to artistic teaching? (in Dutch)
Workshops and events
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Bookpresentation Wicked Arts Education on Wednesday 20th of November at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam (in Dutch).
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Wicked Arts Education LIVE, 30 januari 2022
Wicked Film Assignments
In 2021, the Network for Film Education organized the webinar "Wicked Film Assignments: Film Education as an Artistic Practice," offering tips and tricks for challenging film assignments, which were designed in the same way as the art assignments in the book "Wicked Arts Assignments." Watch the webinar "Wicked Film Assignments" below and read more about Wicked Film Assignments here (in Dutch).
Presentations and workshops
- Universidad de Sevilla (2024) online training Emiel Heijnen en Melissa Bremmer Wicked Arts Assignments
- Vonkc (Tilburg, 2024). Keynote Emiel Heijnen en Nadieh Graumans Tighelaar Wicked Theaterlessen tijdens symposium Authentieke Theatereducatie
- Training Wicked Arts Assignments (Utrecht, 2024) Presentatie Emiel Heijnen Wicked Theaterlessen
- HKU (Utrecht, 2024). Workshop Emiel Heijnen Wicked Arts Assignments voor (S)Mash, interdisciplinair programma docentenopleldingen muziek, theater en beeldend.
- Amsterdam Museum (2024). Workshop Melissa Bremmer Wicked Arts Assignments
- Wicked Arts Assignments nascholing (2024) presentatie Melissa Bremmer Wicked Kunsteducatie
- Stichting Vrijdag (2024, Groningen), presentatie Emiel Heijnen en Melissa Bremmer Wicked Arts Assignments
- Post HBO opleiding On The Movie (Breitner Academie, AHK). Presentatie Emiel Heijnen Wicked Film Assignments.
- Amsterdam Museum, Elja Kinderlabs (2023) workshop Emiel Heijnen Wicked Arts Education
- Amsterdam Museum, Elja Kinderlabs (2023) Emiel Heijnen en Melissa Bremmer Wicked Arts Education
- PWPO-dag (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2023), presentatie Melissa Bremmer Wicked Music Assignments-A
- PWPO-dag (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2023), presentatie Melissa Bremmer Wicked Music Assignments-B
- M4ME (203, Conservatorium van Amsterdam) Melissa Bremmer workshop Wicked Music Assignments
- Vechtclub Utrecht (2023) kunstdocenten Cals College Nieuwegein. Emiel Heijnen & Tamar Clasquin, workshop Wicked Arts Assignments en Authentieke Kunsteducatie
- CultuurSchakel (2023) training Arida Bandringa en Melissa Bremmer Wicked Arts Assignments en Authentieke Kunsteducatie
- Landschap Erfgoed Utrecht (2023) workshop Melissa Bremmer en Arida Bandringa Wicked Arts Assignments
- EAS (2023) online workshop Melissa Bremmer Wicked Music Assignments
- Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia (2023, USA) workshop Melissa Bremmer en Emiel Heijnen Wicked Arts Assignments
- Alumni-dag Codarts Opleiding Docent Muziek (2023, Rotterdam) plenaire workshop Melissa Bremmer Wicked Music Assignments
- HKU (2022) lezing en workshop Emiel Heijnen voor (s)Mash jaar 2: Theaterdocent, DBKV en Docent Muziek, Wicked Curriculum Design
- NHL Stenden Hogeschool (2022, Leeuwarden) workshop Melissa Bremmer en Tamar Clasquin Authentieke Kunsteducatie en Wicked Arts Assignments
- Breitner Academie, scholing On The Movie (2022), lezing Emiel Heijnen Wicked film assignments
- Jan des Bouvrie Academie, Saxion Hogeschool (2022, Deventer), twee workshops Melissa Bremmer, Arida Bandringa en Lisanne Meijers Wicked Arts Assignments
- Kunstgebouw (Theater Rotterdam), workshop Melissa Bremmer en Emiel Heijnen Wicked Arts Assignments
- Freelands Foundation (2022, London, UK), Webinar Melissa Bremmer en Emiel Heijnen Wicked Arts Assignments
- Cultuureducatie Enschede (2022) workshop Melissa Bremmer en Emiel Heijnen Wicked Arts Assignments
- Master Kunsteducatie, Codarts Rotterdam (2022, online), presentatie Melissa Bremmer Wicked Arts Assignments
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculteit Architectuur (2022; Gent) workshop Emiel Heijnen en Melissa Bremmer Wicked Arts Assignments
- Arts Institute of Chicago, Chicago (2022), lecture/workshop for Chicago arts educators and teachers Emiel Heijnen en Melissa Bremmer Wicked Arts Assignments
- Arts Institute of Chicago, Chicago (2022) lecture/workshop for museum educators Melissa Bremmer en Emiel Heijnen Wicked Arts Assignments
- School of Arts & Design, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (2022), lecture Emiel Heijnen en Melissa Bremmer Teacher as Conceptual Artist and Wicked Arts Assignments
- Cultcheers (2022) workshop Melissa Bremmer voor Franse docenten Wicked Arts Assignments
- Gehrels muziekeducatie (2021) Melissa Bremmer en Emiel Heijnen ‘Wicked Music Assignments’
- MOCCA (2021) workshop Melissa Bremmer en Emiel Heijnen ‘Wicked Arts Assignements’
- Summercamp, National Museum of Women in the Arts (2021; online) workshop Emiel Heijnen en Melissa Bremmer ‘Wicked Arts Assignments’
- HKU (2021) presentatie Emiel Heijnen ‘Wicked Arts Assignments’
- Saxion Hogeschool (2021) Emiel Heijnen en Melissa Bremmer ‘Wicked Arts Assignments’
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculteit Architectuur (2021; online) Melissa Bremmer en Emiel Heijnen ‘Wicked Arts Assignments’
- LKCAtelier (2021; online) workshop Melissa Bremmer, Oskar Maarleveld, Emiel Heijnen ‘Wicked Arts Assignments’
- Eye-Instituut (2021; live webinar) workshop Emiel Heijnen, Oskar Maarleveld, Melissa Bremmer ‘Wicked Film Assignments’
- LKCA-leergemeenschap MBO muziek (2021; online) Melissa Bremmer ‘Wicked Arts Assignments: creativiteit in muziekonderwijs’
- NAEA (2021; online) presentatie Emiel Heijnen en Melissa Bremmer 'Wicked Arts Assignments: The Hidden Oeuvre of Contemporary Arts Educators'
- NAEA (2021; online) presentatie Emiel Heijnen en Melissa Bremmer 'Wicked Arts Assignments: The Hidden Oeuvre of Contemporary Arts Educators'