Intended for artists, teachers, and people who teach teachers, this book might be best described as a poetic collection of field notes-fragments of thoughts, theories, methods, observations, and questions that scan the terrain of contemporary art and education. These pages offer readers a subjective, localized, partial, political, and aesthetic introduction to a bracketed landscape that is perpetually in flux. The authors think of these field notes as a playful and tentative arrangement that the reader might tear apart and re-assemble. Diverse methodologies of art, design, and art education are explored in ways that encourage fluid, divergent practices within critical issues in the field. This book attempts to consider the role of the teacher, the irreducible dimensions of art making, our fractured relationship with the natural world, and the critical need for social engagement. These are field notes for meaningful artistic inquiry and exploration, bridging practice and theory through design, narrative, and descriptions of innovative artistic practices. Chapters explore bricolage, collage, design, photography, spiritual dimensions of art-making, ideas about nature, drawing, painting, the human form in art, contemporary art and appropriation, and curriculum theory, alongside interviews with artists Mark Dion, Nina Katchadourian, Kevin Cole, Oliver Herring, and Delphine Diallo.