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SchoolArts October Theme: Commemoration

Sunday, September 12, 2010 | Nancy Walkup

What do ghost bicycles, the Days of the Dead, and the Lincoln Memorial have in common? In different ways, they all commemorate a person, place, or event.  ...

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SchoolArts' Pueblo Art and Culture Seminar

Wednesday, September 8, 2010 | Nancy Walkup

Unfortunate update for next summer. ...

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Call for SchoolArts ClipCards

Sunday, September 5, 2010 | Nancy Walkup

SchoolArts is in need of ClipCards for the magazine. In every issue, there is one ClipCard each for Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle School, and High School levels. We especially need Early Element ...

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Update on SchoolArts Summer 2011 Offerings

Sunday, August 29, 2010 | Nancy Walkup

Update on Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe ...

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SchoolArts/CRIZMAC Folk Arts in Santa Fe, July 2011

Saturday, August 28, 2010 | Nancy Walkup

Summer workshop in conjunction with the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market. ...

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Still Bewitched by Alaska

Wednesday, August 18, 2010 | Nancy Walkup

While we were at the Saxman Village in Ketchikan, we also had the opportunity to see Tlingit artist Nathan Jackson working on a totem pole. ...

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Bewitched by Alaska

Tuesday, August 17, 2010 | Nancy Walkup

Now that I am back in the land of connectivity, I can share highlights of my Alaskan experience. ...

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Red Bull: The Art of the Can

Saturday, July 31, 2010 | Nancy Walkup

Last night we went to the Galleria in Dallas, Texas, for a reception for Red Bull's Art of the Can, curated by our good friend Myra Walker. ...

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New SchoolArts Available

Friday, July 30, 2010 | Nancy Walkup

The Aug/Sept. issue of SchoolArts is now available online. Sarah Brooks’ student appears on the cover for her article, The Wish Tree Project. ...

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SchoolArts' Venice Trip Summer 2011

Thursday, July 29, 2010 | Nancy Walkup

Space still available  ...

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Updates on Summer 2011

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 | Nancy Walkup

Sant Fe Ghost Ranch closing ...

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Making Milagros in Santa Fe

Thursday, July 22, 2010 | Nancy Walkup

One of the hands-on activities in our first SchoolArts Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe workshop of the summer, Folk Art Traditions and Beyond, was making milagros. ...

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More Scenes from Firing at San Ildefonso Pueblo

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 | Nancy Walkup

More scenes from our Pueblo Art and Culture firing at San Ildefonso Pueblo: stacking pots, surrounding them with metal trays and dried cow patties, looking for the fired pots in the hot ashes. ...

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Firing at San Ildefonso Pueblo

Sunday, July 18, 2010 | Nancy Walkup

Today Pueblo Art and Culture traveled to San Ildefonso Pueblo, home of famed potter Maria Martinez, to fire our pots with Kathy Sanchez' family. ...

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Progress on Pottery

Friday, July 16, 2010 | Nancy Walkup

Today our participants (Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe Pueblo Art and Culture) sanded and wet-wiped their clay pieces to prepare them for adding slip and polishing them tomorrow. First, though, we all travel ...

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Making Clay Pots

Thursday, July 15, 2010 | Nancy Walkup

Today at Pueblo Art and Culture, San Ildefonso potter Evelyn Sanchez and members of her family guided our participants through making small pots with clay she had previously prepared from her pueblo. ...

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