Monthly Archives: March 2008
Spring break
Since it’s spring break and I’m out of town visiting colleges and art museums, I thought I’d post a few links to recent articles where art education is in the news. Here you go! The State of the Arts We … Continue reading
up to my elbows in 4th graders
Penny and I had planned out a new lesson for printmaking on Sunday that involved cutting out stencils from overhead projector sheets and printing several “screens” to give the kids a little understanding of graphic screenprinting. When Penny called me … Continue reading
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Portraits finished
Today we finished the portraits that were started in the workshop at the Long Beach Museum of Art. The kids wrote a few lines about their piece, or the field trip and gave their portrait a title. We mounted them … Continue reading
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Museum Trip!
There was a last minute cancellation by another school and we were able to pull together the trip to the Long Beach Museum of Art to see the current show “About Face”, and exhibit featuring portraits by California artists. we … Continue reading
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Mundo Lindo- beautiful world
Jane LaFazio in San Diego creates and teaches art to children through her program Mundo Lindo, free weekly 2-hour creative classes for fourth and fifth grade children in the low-income population of Escondido. Her blog details the weekly classes and … Continue reading
just for fun….
I thought I’d add a video slideshow done last year since there are so many new visits to this blog-you may not have seen it back then before I gave this topic it’s own site.
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