Students in 3A Intro to Art class discuss our upcoming mARTch Madness competition where we put 64 artists in a bracket and make it available online for anyone to vote to see who the 2019 Champion Artist is. Will Yoko Ono repeat? Will a local Nashville artist be a Cinderella? Who would win in a matchup between Kerry James Marshall and Takashi Murakami? These students begin to ask these questions and answer who they think will go ALL THE WAY!

3A MARTchmadness NPR Entry

Students in 1A discuss our upcoming mARTch Madness tournament where all 5 intro to art classes will vote and encourage friends, family and the larger public to vote for the champion artist of 2019. Will Yoko Ono repeat? Will a local Nashville artist pull off an upset? These young art historians dig into Doris Salcedo, Omari Booker, Nuveen Barwari, Swoon and others!

1A MARTch Madness 2019 NPR Entry

Students in 4A host special guest artist Rob Matthews who is one of the 64 artists in our mARTch Madness competition we are hosting at our school. Listen as Rob has to defend why his work would defeat conceptual art legend Adrian Piper in a head to head competition.
What happens will surprise you!

4A MARTch Madness 2019 NPR Entry

Students in 6B intro to art class host Kurdish American guest artist Nuveen Barwari to ask her how she thinks she'll stack up against the other 63 artists in our mARTch Madness competition. Listen as Nuveen and students ague why she ,Jean Michel Basquiat, Sonia Romero, Omari Booker or others will be crowned the Champion artist of 2019.

6B MARTch Madness 2019 NPR Entry

Students in 8B intro to art class argue for Swoon, ELizabeth Murray, William Pope L., Lorna Simpson and Nashville's own Brandon J. Donahue to win our mARTch Madness tournament where all 5 intro classes I teach are pitting 64 artists in head to head matchups until only one is standing.

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