Contemporary Art Articles
Every month SchoolArts magazine has a Looking and Learning feature that is based on contemporary art and artists that includes beginner, intermediate, and advanced activities for students. Why do we f ...
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Metamorphosis in Clay
One of the focuses in the Seven Grade Life Science Curriculum in my district is for students to increase their understanding of the world including the cycles, changes, and relationships that are abun ...
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Back to Nature
Nature and I have come full circle. I grew up in north Louisiana and spent most of my time as a child outside roaming around the thick woods around our house with my five siblings. Our father was a Bo ...
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Is Your School Celebrating International Peace Day?
You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one John Lennon ...
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How Did Your Students Celebrate Dot Day?
The celebration of Dot Day in elementary school art rooms has really taken off this year and I've enjoyed seeing art teachers around the country are posting on Facebook. Here I am sharing Cassie Steph ...
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The Hexagon Project: Ten Years of Interdependence
2016 marks ten years that The Hexagon Project has been building a social justice art education opportunity for teachers, young people, and communities worldwide through the use of a small ye ...
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Looking for Petroglyphs at La Cieneguilla
On our hunt for accessible petroglyphs near Santa Fe, this morning we visited La Cieneguilla and were not disappointed. Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, p ...
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In Search of Petroglyphs
Now that I am living in New Mexico, I have more time and opportunity to explore this amazing land. I'm usually thinking about the summer seminars Stevie Mack and I lead, looking for new (and accessibl ...
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Northwest Coast Native Arts at the Ralph T. Coe Foundation
In my last post I wrote about the Ralph T. Coe Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico and their focus on Native American Arts. The special exhibition at the Foundation right now is A View from Here: North ...
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Discovering the Ralph T. Coe Foundation in Santa Fe
The Coe Foundation's collection of around 2000 objects represents worldwide indigenous cultures, with its core collection encompassing the span of historic to contemporary North American Native works. ...
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