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Editor's Letter: Collaboration

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 | Frank Juárez

The key to a successful collaboration is synergy, high engagement, common ground, accountability, and of course, patience. Extending the opportunity to engage and include others in what it means to cr ...

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Creative Collaborations Across the Campus

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 | Meera Ramanathan

My fifth graders leave their positive mark on the school by creating a legacy mural at the end of each school year. I choose a theme, and each student creates an artwork—digitally or on paper&md ...

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Turning Data into Action in Art Education

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 | Dr. Lucy Chen

We witness daily how the arts strengthen academic achievement, build confidence, and nurture social awareness and emotional well-being. Yet despite decades of research, arts education is still treated ...

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Artist Birthday: Robert Kobayashi (1925-2015 US)

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 | Karl Cole

There were many Japanese-American artists who served in the US military during World War II (1939-1945) and afterwards became leaders in American modernism. Robert Kobayashi was a unique modernist who ...

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Gem of the Month: Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938 US)

Monday, May 4, 2026 | Karl Cole

This month's "Gem" is also a 4 May Birthday! Whether Thomas Wilmer Dewing is labeled an Impressionist, Tonalist, or Aesthetics artist, his beautiful portraits, mostly of youngish women, ...

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International Workers' Day (May Day): Art by Diego Rivera (1886-1957 Mexico)

Friday, May 1, 2026 | Karl Cole

International Workers’ Day commemorates the 1886 Haymarket Riots in Chicago where workers were fired upon by police protesting for workers’ rights for an eight-hour work day after one prot ...

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Teaching with Inquiry in the Art Room

Thursday, April 30, 2026 | Davis Publications

Where the Shift Begins There’s a moment that happens in a lot of art rooms. You show an image, explain a concept, maybe demonstrate a technique, and then pause. Some students jump in. Others ...

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Artist Birthday: William Bradford (1823-1892 US)

Thursday, April 30, 2026 | Karl Cole

One of the most interesting developments in American art history was the evolution of an American “school” of landscape painting, as Americans grew to cherish their new country with wildly ...

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Artist Birthday: Jonas Lie (1880-1940 US, born Norway)

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 | Karl Cole

Jonas Lie was a prominent poster artist during the American Poster “Renaissance” in the early 1900s. He is best known for his patriotic paintings of the American effort in World Wars I (19 ...

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Artist Birthday: Yves Klein (1928-1962 France)

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 | Karl Cole

During the turbulent post-World War II (1939-1945) years, it is no surprise that art movements arose – as they did after World War I (1914-1918) – that questioned the validity of entrenche ...

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A Barber's Bowl Bouquet for Spring

Monday, April 27, 2026 | Karl Cole

When visiting a museum collection, I have always marveled at objects meant for medical, military or some other non-aesthetic purpose are, just the same, beautifully decorated. This happened recently w ...

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Artist Birthday: Willem de Kooning (1904-1997 US, born Netherlands)

Friday, April 24, 2026 | Karl Cole

Abstract Expressionism, which developed in the 1940s primarily in New York, was the first original American modernism art movement. Willem de Kooning was one of the leading artists of this group, also ...

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National Picnic Day: Art by Mori Keiko (born 1939 Japan)

Thursday, April 23, 2026 | Karl Cole

Keiko Mori is a National Living Cultural Treasure in Japan. Her ceramics celebrate the centuries old traditions in ceramic arts. Although ceramic picnic baskets do not strictly speaking exist in the W ...

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Artist Birthday: Richard Diebenkorn / Happy Earth Day

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | Karl Cole

What better way to dual celebrate Earth Day/Birthday than a landscape! The first original American modernist art movement, called Abstract Expressionism, flourished between the late 1940s into the 196 ...

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Artist Birthday: Pippin Barr (born 1979 New Zealand)

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 | Karl Cole

Contemporary video games, like those designed by artist Pippin Barr, are the direct descendant of the combination of film and artworks that occurred widely starting  in the late 1950s and early 1 ...

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Spring Impression by a Truly Lyrical Artist

Monday, April 6, 2026 | Karl Cole

Every so often I try to explore artists whose names have never been – as the saying goes – a “household word.” That is unfortunate, because many relatively lesser well known ar ...

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