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 know this, now let’s DO it!
Coloring Outside Curriculum Lines To Depict the Drop in Arts Education
Learning, Arts, and [...]

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 Monday morning to announce she had succombed to the flu I rearranged the lesson in my [...]

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 and hung them in the hall. I think the kids were very [...]

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 walked about 12 blocks to meet a public bus

we pre-purchased bus tickets to avoid [...]

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 is an inspiration to me as she is also a full time artist in the [...]

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.