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When Bookshelves Come Alive

Friday, May 16, 2025 | Leigh Drake

When we had to start out the school year in a virtual setting, I was inspired to come up with a project that I wouldn’t typically be able to implement in the classroom. Several projects I assign ...

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Portraits in Three Dimensions

Friday, May 16, 2025 | Annemarie Baldauf

Imagine printing a photograph and having your subject appear in three dimensions instead of two. Like a camera, a 3D scanner can be used creatively to capture a subject’s essence through persona ...

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Eco Art: Fostering Environmental Advocacy

Friday, May 16, 2025 | Gregg Stevens

We are tasked with providing students with the knowledge they need for a successful future, but we are often limited to lessons that are too cursory or dated to be relevant. Art educators need to meet ...

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Creative Dreams and Community Connections

Friday, May 16, 2025 | Zoey Graf

Art educators are teachers, learners, community connectors, and creative dreamers. Bringing novel experiences to students is part of our daily work, and we encourage them to take risks, try new things ...

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National Love a Tree Day: Sylvia P. Mangold

Friday, May 16, 2025 | Karl Cole

Mangold is very fond of the trees that were on her country property and they became frequent subjects of her paintings. She would definitely approve of National Love a Tree Day, which encourages every ...

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International Families Day: Alice Mizrachi

Thursday, May 15, 2025 | Karl Cole

During the 1980's, the United Nations began focusing attention on issues related to the family. In 1993, the General Assembly decided in a resolution that 15 May of every year should be observed as Th ...

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Artist Birthday: Thomas Gainsborough

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 | Karl Cole

Thomas Gainsborough’s art was the epitome of the elegant, sophisticated and generally low-key Rococo style that characterized late 1700s British art. It was a major contrast to the flamboyant, o ...

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Artist Birthday: Peter Henry Emerson

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 | Karl Cole

At a time (the 1880s) when photographic processes evolved to handwork and manipulation of prints in development in order to achieve “artistic” photographs, Peter Henry Emerson advocated fo ...

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Jewish American Heritage Month: Gandy Brodie

Monday, May 12, 2025 | Karl Cole

Jewish American Heritage Month is celebrated in May to recognize and honor the contributions of Jewish Americans to the United States. It's a time to celebrate the diverse experiences and rich history ...

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Artist Birthday: Ynez Johnston

Monday, May 12, 2025 | Karl Cole

Ynez Johnston’s unique style blends modernism and ancient art forms from her travels to Italy, Mexico, India and Nepal. Johnston also created three dimensional pieces in collaboration with her h ...

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Artist Birthday: Ralph Goings

Friday, May 9, 2025 | Karl Cole

The Photorealism movement, which evolved during the late 1960s as a counterpoint to the pervasive Minimalism, Conceptualism, and abstraction in American art, blossomed fully during the 1970s. Into the ...

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National Iris Day: Muhammad Zaman

Thursday, May 8, 2025 | Karl Cole

The iris is a beautiful flower that was first planted in the United States in Virginia in the 1600s. The flower started being commercially imported around 1869. The iris is the symbol for the city of ...

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National Skilled Trades Day: Jacob Lawrence

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 | Karl Cole

National Skilled Trades Day was established in 2019 by the National Day Calendar and City Machine Technologies, Inc. Skilled workers are employed in a variety of fields and positions that can be perso ...

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What is Restorative Practice?

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | Lisa Kay, Donalyn Heise, and Beverley Johns

Restorative practice is defined as having the ability to bring back health, strength, or a feeling of well-being. Restorative practice can be defined as actions we put into place that support, encoura ...

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Artist Birthday: George Elmer Browne

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | Karl Cole

George Elmer Browne was an American painter, one of the many who, in the late 1800s, studied painting in Paris at the height of the Impressionist period. His West End School of Art in Provincetown, Ma ...

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Gem of the Month: Pasquale Santo

Monday, May 5, 2025 | Karl Cole

I had a sudden “beauty attack” last week when I looked closely at this artist’s work for the first time. Being a painter myself, I am always flabbergasted by how many artists come an ...

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When Bookshelves Come Alive

Portraits in Three Dimensions

Eco Art: Fostering Environmental Advocacy

Creative Dreams and Community Connections

National Love a Tree Day: Sylvia P. Mangold

International Families Day: Alice Mizrachi

Artist Birthday: Thomas Gainsborough

Artist Birthday: Peter Henry Emerson

Jewish American Heritage Month: Gandy Brodie

Artist Birthday: Ynez Johnston

Artist Birthday: Ralph Goings

National Iris Day: Muhammad Zaman

National Skilled Trades Day: Jacob Lawrence

What is Restorative Practice?

Artist Birthday: George Elmer Browne

Gem of the Month: Pasquale Santo

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