current status of elementary art

Not a day goes by that I don’t think about art and kids. Really. Several times a day if you have to know the truth.
I don’t even have kids in school any longer. Both my boys are now in college pursuing their interests in
music, performance, and recording arts and sciences. [...]

teaching art to children in India

I am adding this link to the sidebar today. Go have a visit at Shikshamitra (Bengali for Friends of Learning), an alternative secondary school and education resource center. Maura teaches there and is one of my Flickr contacts. You can see one of her photo sets here.

computer lesson for the 5th grade

I came across an interesting post in my art education group at yahoo. (you can join this group by request by visiting here.)
The post referred to a photoshop/computer graphics project and you can see it here.
It is in Japanese but you will get the drift of it from the photos. I think it is [...]

apologies for copyright violation

To read the whole sad affair, you have to visit my other blog.
We will resume irregularly scheduled art in the 4th grade classroom soon. Promise.

if there was any question…

why we need to keep art in public schools-
watch this video