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Editor’s Letter: Media Arts

Thursday, March 9, 2023 | Nancy Walkup

These days, media arts include digital design, website design, virtual reality, 3D printing, robotics, digital photography and film, animation, and game design. Why teach media arts? Your students liv ...

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Disability Awareness Month: Pearl Blauvelt

Monday, March 6, 2023 | Karl Cole

March became National Disability Awareness Month in 1987. Let’s recognize this important national observance with artist Pearl Blauvelt, whose unique vision demonstrates how enriching the w ...

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Black History Month 2023: Betye Saar

Monday, February 27, 2023 | Karl Cole

Since the 1970s, Betye Saar has been an important artist in both the Feminist Art Movement and in the ever-surging vitality and legacy of African American art. She is one of the most important assembl ...

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Valentine's Day 2023: Akhenaten and Nefertiti

Monday, February 13, 2023 | Karl Cole

Because I’m a sentimental sap, this post is going to celebrate Valentine’s Day (with works of art, naturally). Presenting 2023’s Valentine’s Day couple in art: Akhenaten and Ne ...

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Co-Editor’s Letter: Choice

Thursday, February 9, 2023 | Clyde Gaw

I want to welcome the readership of SchoolArts to this special edition focused on choice-based art education and Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB). I was delighted when Nancy Walkup suggested we se ...

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A Tactile Approach to Symmetry

Thursday, February 9, 2023 | Nica Operchuck Rumion

I was a multiple subject teacher for nearly twenty years before becoming an elementary art teacher. When I moved to the art room, I decided to do a full year of math and art connected concepts. I was ...

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Meeting in the Middle

Thursday, February 9, 2023 | Jen Rankey-Zona

Students are ready to think of themselves as artists when they are given choices, and once they understand that, the emergent curriculum, which is based on their strengths and interests, is allowed to ...

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Prepare Yourself

Thursday, February 9, 2023 | Betsy DiJulio

In years past, for the last quarter of the school year, I assigned students in my drawing, painting, and printmaking classes one final project that was ambitious and appropriately demanding, usually a ...

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TAB for Tiny Humans

Thursday, February 9, 2023 | Lori Wallace

What does developmentally appropriate early childhood art education look like in the TAB art room? And how is it best supported by the TAB pedagogy? TAB is, at its heart, about building student agency ...

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Black History Month 2023: Vincent D. Smith

Monday, February 6, 2023 | Karl Cole

The art of African Americans has long been part of the American experience, beginning as enslaved Africans brought art forms, styles, and techniques to the U.S. Those artistic roots have impacted ...

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Invented Worlds of Maria-Helena Vieira da Silva

Monday, January 30, 2023 | Karl Cole

One of the most fascinating abstract movements to emerge in the mid-1900s was Art Informel. Often termed European Abstract Expressionism, the artists of the group emphasized intuitive, spontaneous, an ...

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Gem of the Month: Lotus Ten-Panel Screen

Monday, January 23, 2023 | Karl Cole

In observance of National Korean American Day, which occurred on Friday, January 13th, I dedicate the January Gem of the Month to the singular beauty of Korean art through the centuries. Korean art co ...

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Celebrating Martin Luther King Day: Nellie Mae Rowe

Tuesday, January 17, 2023 | Karl Cole

In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy, I’m sharing the art of a truly individual, inspiring African American artist: Nellie Mae Rowe. Her independent and unique spirit is part ...

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Facing the Past: Jennifer Karady

Monday, January 9, 2023 | Karl Cole

Many people would probably prefer to forget about the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, but there is something therapeutic about facing them and admitting they happened. Artist Jennifer Karady uses h ...

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Happy New Year 2023: Totoya Hokkei

Tuesday, January 3, 2023 | Karl Cole

Mekari Shinji at the Mekari Shrine in Japan is an annual ritual of cutting wakame seaweed—symbolizing wealth and good fortune—from the ocean at low tide on New Year’s day of the old ...

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Sleigh Rides and Christmas Carols: Hattie Brunner

Monday, December 19, 2022 | Karl Cole

Some artists have a knack for setting a mood in a genre scene (scene of everyday life). Such is the case with Visionary artist Hattie Brunner, the so-called “Pennsylvania-German Grandma Moses.&r ...

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Editor’s Letter: Media Arts

Disability Awareness Month: Pearl Blauvelt

Black History Month 2023: Betye Saar

Valentine's Day 2023: Akhenaten and Nefertiti

Co-Editor’s Letter: Choice

A Tactile Approach to Symmetry

Meeting in the Middle

Prepare Yourself

TAB for Tiny Humans

Black History Month 2023: Vincent D. Smith

Invented Worlds of Maria-Helena Vieira da Silva

Gem of the Month: Lotus Ten-Panel Screen

Celebrating Martin Luther King Day: Nellie Mae Rowe

Facing the Past: Jennifer Karady

Happy New Year 2023: Totoya Hokkei

Sleigh Rides and Christmas Carols: Hattie Brunner

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