Our student show will hold it’s reception Thursday the 29th of May from 5 PM to 8 PM at the Dana Branch Library at 3680 Atlantic Ave. Long Beach and Penny Voelker (the other half of “we” at EA) has written a statement for the show on behalf of Elementary Art expressing our thoughts on [...]
This is possibly the last post before the year ends as we are busy finishing up the sculptures and getting ready for our exhibit at the local Dana Branch Library. Life dictates that we (who are “we”?) prepare for upcoming proms, concerts, banquets, and graduation in preparation for summer travel and the beginning of [...]
We got notice at the last minute that the kids are on a field trip today, so no art. Penny and I did get together over some delicious pho at Pho America and made some notes and lists about the set up of the upcoming art show. On to next week….
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
In anticipation of visiting the Long Beach Museum of Art’s current exhibit, “About Face”, we are working on our portrait drawing skills.
We started out with a blow up of a face from a magazine copied onto paper in black and white. We cut the image in half vertically and pasted the left side of [...]
