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Sci-Fi/Steampunk Sculptures

Thursday, November 6, 2025 | Eric Gibbons

When my high school got new laptops and Chromebooks for the students, a lot of the old technology was no longer needed. Rather than throw it all away, the school gave it to me for students to use in t ...

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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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Pushing Our Practice with Fused Glass

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | Christine Colby

In an effort to push my kiln-firing abilities and challenge students with a new material and process, I added fused glass to my current level 3 class. I enjoyed watching students experiment, problem-s ...

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Triple-Take: Contemporary Art through Composite Photography

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | Loria Crews

Contemporary art is all about pushing boundaries, and this project does just that by asking students to explore identity, culture, family, and society through a single image made of three different &l ...

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What Is Luminous

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | Kari Giordano

Starting the course with this project ensured students’ comfort level and introduced them to the transformative power of photography. I wanted to emphasize the importance of finding joy in every ...

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SMACK! Collaborating for Impact

Friday, December 20, 2024 | Trish Klenow

In April 2023, every Art 1 student at Green Level High School created a vibrant 4' (1m) jellyfish out of marine rope and monofilament (fishing line) reclaimed from the Atlantic. The 100-plus giant jel ...

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Trash to Treasure

Thursday, October 10, 2024 | Kathleen Sneed Petka

I am super pleased with how creative my students were in their Trash to Treasure challenge. I created this activity to inspire students to reuse materials and to find the beauty in everyday items. The ...

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The Color and Shape of Music

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 | Eric Gibbons

I came up with the idea of using the emotions inherent in music to drive the choice of colors and shapes in a collage composition. We started out by listening to different kinds of music and discussin ...

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Painting with Paper

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 | Todd Poteet

Many students tend to “draw with paint” rather than process the shapes that will lead to complex forms and color development. How do we teach students to switch their thought process when ...

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A Zinester’s Guide to Creativity

Friday, May 17, 2024 | Megan Newton

If creativity is the destination, how do we get there? What methods of transportation could we take? Might I interest you in a popular vehicle, the zine? The zine (pronounced zeen) is a sturdy and rel ...

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Exploring Alternative Mark-Making

Monday, April 15, 2024 | Frank Juárez

This project came at the perfect time, after my Drawing Intensive students had completed a large-scale realistic drawing assignment. I wanted to give them the freedom to experiment in their mark-makin ...

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Choice Sketchbooks

Tuesday, March 12, 2024 | Nicole S. Herbst

After twenty-seven years of teaching art, I was thrilled to be granted permission to offer an art class based solely on the creation of a sketchbook art journal. The idea is for students to be evaluat ...

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The Gratitude Project

Monday, February 12, 2024 | Tim Needles

The best mindfulness projects are the ones that impact the culture in a meaningful way; the Gratitude Project is one such project. A few years ago, my school district implemented a social-emotional le ...

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Creative Collaborations

Thursday, December 14, 2023 | Jeanne Bjork

The classroom is abuzz with activity as students perform a variety of tasks to complete their work, such as signing out to interview clients, heading to the innovation center to use the 3D printer, la ...

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Paper Microbes

Thursday, November 9, 2023 | Kasmira Mohanty

Students decided to go in the opposite direction from the enormity of space to explore the world of microbiology. Based on this decision, I introduced them to the paper sculptures of Rogan Brown. The ...

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Light the Dark

Wednesday, October 4, 2023 | Monique Dobbelaere

Tasks that may have become routine can always be refreshed, and using black light is a fantastic way to do that. Begin by sharing visual examples and the prompt for students to choose a subject for an ...

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The Color and Shape of Music

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