Teaching AI Art with Intention
Inquire about a workshopThe Challenge Facing Educators
AI image tools are already in your students' hands. The question isn't whether to address them, but how. This workshop equips art educators to lead that conversation with confidence, combining practical tool literacy with the critical frameworks that make art education meaningful.
What You'll Learn
1. How Diffusion Models Actually Work
Understand the technology beneath the interface—no computer science degree required. Learn why AI builds images from noise, not from a database of stored pictures.
2. Prompting as Creative Direction
Move beyond trial and error. Learn the anatomy of effective prompts and how specificity, artistic vocabulary, and iterative refinement shape outcomes.
3. Generation Controls & Editing Techniques
Explore aspect ratios, style references, character consistency, inpainting, outpainting, and image-to-image workflows across major platforms.
4. The Ethics Landscape
Engage honestly with the complicated side of AI art: training data sourcing, labor practices, environmental costs, copyright questions, and bias in outputs.
5. Practical Classroom Frameworks
Leave with ready-to-use tools including the AI Provenance Card for documenting student work and discussion frameworks for authorship and originality.
Who This Is For
High School Art Departments
Prepare your faculty to engage with AI tools thoughtfully, with age-appropriate frameworks for student work.
University & College Programs
Integrate AI into design and fine arts curricula with the critical depth higher education demands.
Conference Organizers
A substantive, practitioner-led session for events focused on design, education, or creative technology.
Workshop Format
Delivery:
Virtual sessions via video conference. In-person available for select opportunities.
Duration
3–4 hours total, delivered as a single session or split across two.
Structure
Context-setting, hands-on exercises with live generation, ethics discussion, and practical takeaways.
Customization
Content can be tailored to your institution's specific needs, tools, and student population.
Pricing
Tailored to audience size and scope. Reach out to discuss what works for your program.
About the Facilitator
Crispin Bailey, RGD
Registered Graphic Designer (RGD) · Senior Director of Design & AI
With two decades in design leadership and a current focus on AI governance, Crispin brings both practitioner depth and institutional perspective to questions of creative technology. His own traditional art practice is tenkoku (Japanese seal carving) which grounds his thinking in craft, materiality, and the long history of tools shaping art.
He writes regularly about AI's impact on art and culture at Lookdeeper, where this workshop lives alongside ongoing research and reflection.
Interested in a workshop?
Let's talk about what would work for your program. I'm happy to discuss format, scope, and how to tailor the content to your needs.
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