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Editor’s Letter: Play

Tuesday, May 9, 2023 | Nancy Walkup

To what degree does play find expression in your art room? I have always found it to be a benefit for both me and my students. For a variety of perspectives, I asked our contributing editors to share ...

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Thinking Like Contemporary Artists

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 | Megan Jell

At the start of the school year, after a year of hybrid, virtual, and dual modes of instruction, I noticed a strong resistance to risk-taking in the art room. I needed to retrain my students to take r ...

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Masked Identities

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 | Aimee Fresia

I researched contemporary artists and discovered the work of African American painter Jeff Sonhouse (b. 1968, New York). Sonhouse creates large, realistic paintings using colorful patterns and burnt m ...

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Considering Contemporary Art-Making

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 | Richard Kim

To access contemporary art-making, allow students to explore options within formal for traditional art-making ideas without giving specific stipulation as to what is “better or effective.” ...

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Postmodern Portraits

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 | Trish Klenow

When creating a great postmodern portrait, embrace the cellphone, the selfie, and TikTok. They are ever-present resources for this generation. We’ve come a long way since glamor shots at the mal ...

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Editor’s Letter: Contemporary Art

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 | Nancy Walkup

To bring in multiple perspectives for this month’s issue on teaching with contemporary art, I asked our SchoolArts contributing editors to offer their thoughts about why students should engage w ...

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Drawings in 3D

Thursday, March 9, 2023 | Annemarie Baldauf

If you want to engage students with an exciting hook, 3D printing will do the trick. They can create a two-dimensional drawing of an object and print it three-dimensionally. Today, companies use 3D pr ...

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Light Painting Portraits

Thursday, March 9, 2023 | Rebecca Cauchon Sutphen

Students love to explore photography through light painting (also called light drawing or light graffiti), a technique of moving a light source while taking a long-exposure photograph. Recently, my ad ...

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Learning to Become Emergent

Thursday, March 9, 2023 | Jessi Ruby and Dana Kirk

My purpose in hosting pre-service educators is to empower them to adopt the traits of a TAB facilitator. To achieve this goal, pre-service educators must have the intention of following the TAB guidin ...

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Video Games as Interactive Art

Thursday, March 9, 2023 | Brian Imfeld and Stacy Darwin

When I was in elementary school, it wasn’t possible to play video games in the classroom. Today, students can design their own video games, full of unique characters and worlds using apps like B ...

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Editor’s Letter: Media Arts

Thursday, March 9, 2023 | Nancy Walkup

These days, media arts include digital design, website design, virtual reality, 3D printing, robotics, digital photography and film, animation, and game design. Why teach media arts? Your students liv ...

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Co-Editor’s Letter: Choice

Thursday, February 9, 2023 | Clyde Gaw

I want to welcome the readership of SchoolArts to this special edition focused on choice-based art education and Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB). I was delighted when Nancy Walkup suggested we se ...

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A Tactile Approach to Symmetry

Thursday, February 9, 2023 | Nica Operchuck Rumion

I was a multiple subject teacher for nearly twenty years before becoming an elementary art teacher. When I moved to the art room, I decided to do a full year of math and art connected concepts. I was ...

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Meeting in the Middle

Thursday, February 9, 2023 | Jen Rankey-Zona

Students are ready to think of themselves as artists when they are given choices, and once they understand that, the emergent curriculum, which is based on their strengths and interests, is allowed to ...

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Prepare Yourself

Thursday, February 9, 2023 | Betsy DiJulio

In years past, for the last quarter of the school year, I assigned students in my drawing, painting, and printmaking classes one final project that was ambitious and appropriately demanding, usually a ...

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TAB for Tiny Humans

Thursday, February 9, 2023 | Lori Wallace

What does developmentally appropriate early childhood art education look like in the TAB art room? And how is it best supported by the TAB pedagogy? TAB is, at its heart, about building student agency ...

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Editor’s Letter: Play

Thinking Like Contemporary Artists

Masked Identities

Considering Contemporary Art-Making

Postmodern Portraits

Editor’s Letter: Contemporary Art

Drawings in 3D

Light Painting Portraits

Learning to Become Emergent

Video Games as Interactive Art

Editor’s Letter: Media Arts

Co-Editor’s Letter: Choice

A Tactile Approach to Symmetry

Meeting in the Middle

Prepare Yourself

TAB for Tiny Humans

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