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Art Stronger than Hate: Artoonist Issa Nyaphaga

Thursday, April 14, 2016 | Nancy Walkup

Yesterday I had the fortunate opportunity to meet and observe an artist working with students at the Eldorado Community School in Santa Fe, at the invitation of art teacher Roni Rohr. Issa Nyaphaga is ...

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The Best Big Ideas: Boyer's Human Commonalities

Tuesday, April 12, 2016 | Nancy Walkup

Famed educator Ernest Boyer's Human Commonalities represent eight things all humans on this earth have in common. No matter what nationality, tribe, culture, or time period we associate with, we can a ...

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A Dynamic Children's Art Show

Sunday, April 10, 2016 | Nancy Walkup

Today I had the joy of attending the opening of a fantastic art exhibition of art from children in the MOIFA/Ames After School Program at the Museum of International Folk Art Museum (MOIFA) in Sa ...

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SchoolArts Magazine: The Green Issue

Tuesday, April 5, 2016 | Nancy Walkup

Art teachers have the honorable and well-deserved reputation of creatively using and reusing all and any art-making materials with their students. Whether your students are recycling, upcycling, or us ...

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Folk Art & Culture of Oaxaca

Monday, March 28, 2016 | Nancy Walkup

In addition to exploring the amenities of the city, you will visit thriving folk art villages where talented artists create fabulous woodcarvings, textiles, and pottery. You’ll have the opportun ...

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Meeting SchoolArts Authors at NAEA Chicago

Thursday, March 24, 2016 | Nancy Walkup

This year at NAEA Chicago, I was able to spend more time in the SchoolArts/Davis Publications booth in the commercial exhibits than I usually do. I made sure that every SchoolArts author who came by t ...

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Visiting Zeny and Rina Fuentes in Oaxaca, Mexico

Thursday, March 24, 2016 | Nancy Walkup

It isn't too late to join the SchoolArts/CRIZMAC's Folk Art & Culture of Mexico in Oaxaca, Mexico June 26-July 2. 2016. One of our stops will be the home and workshop of noted folk artists Zeny an ...

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Art 2 Day

Wednesday, March 9, 2016 | Nancy Walkup

One of the most personally rewarding parts of being the editor of SchoolArts is that I am constantly learning— learning from art teachers around the globe, learning their ideas and best practice ...

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Driven by Curiosity

Wednesday, February 10, 2016 | Nancy Walkup

Driving home from the Texas Art Education Association conference in Galveston last fall, I made a  long anticipated stop at a visionary/outsider/self-taught art center and park in Houston. ...

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El Rancho de las Golondrinas: Santa Fe, New Mexico

Monday, February 8, 2016 | Nancy Walkup

El Rancho de las Golondrinas is a living history museum located on 200 acres in a rural farming valley just south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The museum, dedicated to the history, heritage and culture of ...

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