Pinterest is a social bookmarking site where users collect and share photos of their favorite events, interests and hobbies. It is one of the fastest growing social networks online. Pinterest is a visual tool for collecting and organizing things that re of interest. You can collect and curate images or video to Pinterest. You can add a pin from a website using the Pin It bookmarklet or upload an image right from your computer. Any pin on Pinterest can be repinned, and all pins link back to their source. A Pinterest board is where you organize and curate your pins by topic.

In ARE6246c Principle of Teaching Art, my students collaboratively select a topic and design a bulletin board for the site outside the Art Education area at the University of Florida. While bulletin boards often reside in institutional sites, I encourage my student to get their ‘art voices’ involved in this process. This includes the staying creative with concept, creative angle, approach, visual ideas, and considering their audience.

“In more recent site-oriented, project-based art… the site of art is again redefined…through the nomadic movement of the artist… the site can now be as various as a billboard, an artistic genre, a disenfranchised community, an institutional framework, a magazine page, a social cause, or a political debate. It can be literal, like a street corner, or virtual, like a theoretical concept.”

– Miwon Kwon One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity

I was moved by the number of people who pinned and commented on our 2011 bulletin boards entitled, Get Your Hands on Art.