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As an art teacher, you are in an excellent position to develop collaborative projects for your students. On a practical level, you can have students work in pairs or small groups, correlate lessons wi ...
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Native American Heritage Month: The Powhatan Confederacy
Monday, November 7, 2022 | Karl ColeIndigenous peoples lived in every region of present-day United States when the first Europeans arrived in the 1500s. The Spanish came via Mexico during expeditions in 1539 to 1543, 1540 to 1542, and 1 ...
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Ghosts for Halloween
Monday, October 31, 2022 | Karl ColeGhosts, a big part of Halloween, are elements of mystery and curiosity in many cultures. There are great differences in the ways ghosts are perceived around the world, from abject terror to sympa ...
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Gems of the Month: Aizuri-e
Monday, October 24, 2022 | Karl ColeThis month, I’m celebrating aizuri-e, or “blue prints,” from Japan’s ukiyo-e style that flourished during the Edo Period (ca. 1615–1868). The color Prussian blue was intr ...
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Hispanic Heritage Month 2022: Oscar de la Renta
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 | Karl ColeOscar de la Renta was an internationally renowned fashion designer who established a personal aesthetic that combined European couture elegance with practical ready-to-wear forms. He is best known for ...
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Storyteller Drawings
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 | Melanie RobinsonDuring midwinter, storyteller and retired art teacher Sue Hinkel visits our school and tells stories to the third-graders. She also shares her outstanding collection of Native American clay storytelle ...
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Juxtaposition Watercolors
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 | Zoey GrafAsk students to brainstorm what specific manufactured items are part of their everyday lives (e.g., buses, cars, roads, paths, bridges, buildings, desks, windows, litter, phones, computers). Then ask ...
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Manipulative Photomontage
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 | Christina PintonI present the challenge of gathering imagery (royalty-free images and their own photographs) and manipulating them to produce an imagined landscape. Students’ landscapes may include figures, bui ...
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Honoring the Osage
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 | Elizabeth BarkerStudents watched and listened to Norman Akers as he discussed color theory and technique while he painted. He also told them personal stories and made connections to Osage culture and history. In late ...
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Editor’s Letter: Story
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 | Nancy WalkupYou can find stories wherever you look. This past March, I visited Canyon de Chelly National Monument near Chinle, Arizona, on Navajo tribal lands. The history of peoples in the canyon, Hopi and Navaj ...
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Hispanic Heritage Month 2022: Emilio Cruz
Monday, October 3, 2022 | Karl ColeThe works of Emilio Cruz form a counterpoint to the Abstract Expressionist style that dominated the art world when Cruz first went to New York. His work is important not only because it was figurative ...
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Hispanic Heritage Month 2022: Martha Boto
Monday, September 19, 2022 | Karl ColeThis Hispanic Heritage month, I’ll be featuring artists who are pioneers in all sorts of art and who have had a major impact on Western art. For this post, let’s take a look at the wo ...
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Growing Kindness Gardens
Monday, September 12, 2022 | Julia L. HovanecAfter the class engages with the picture book Kindness Makes Us Strong by Sophie Beer, students are introduced to the work of Jeff Hanson, who created striking, vibrant garden paintings and was known ...
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Raising a Hand for Human Rights
Monday, September 12, 2022 | Teresa StrohlMy fifth-grade team wanted to give their students an opportunity to form a deeper understanding of human rights, the theme they were covering in their EL unit, so we collaborated to have students crea ...
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Making a Scene
Monday, September 12, 2022 | Cristina PintonIn our AP photograph class, I start one of my favorite projects in the middle of the woods at sunset. Why? Dramatic, eerie fading light! Students are armed with a soft box (a type of photographic ligh ...
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The Quest for Empathy in Art Education
Monday, September 12, 2022 | Jane B. MonteroWith ongoing global conflicts and the need for compassion and respect for all human beings, empathy is once again in the forefront of our minds. Stanford University psychology professor Dr. Jamil Zaki ...
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The October 2025 issue is out now!
Our new issue is out, and it's all about STUDENT VOICE & CHOICE. Art teachers foster student voice and choice, guiding them to become thoughtful artists and critical thinkers.
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