make online: looking, thinking, making

How and when do we learn how to look? What skills are required to translate looking into understanding, and how does this connect with the material literacy of making? In our upcoming session of make online, we will hear from three artist educators about their unique approaches to looking and making in a variety of educational contexts and mediums. We will explore how visual literacy, or learning how to look, can help foster a critical understanding of the visual world, and how the material literacy of making can enable critical responses to it.

This session will feature three artist-educators presenting their work back-to-back, followed by an in-conversation with Freelands Foundation Education Curator Nathan Marsh and a Q&A.

The full lineup of presenters will be announced in January 2026.

Image: Eric Aydin-Barberini