What's Your Story?
In preparing for the December issue of SchoolArts, I came across the above quote on Facebook that mentioned “story.” It was unattributed but I found the source after a little looking aroun ...
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The Healing Classrooms Challenge
Imagine you have to run away from your home suddenly because of fighting and bombs being dropped in your neighborhood. You flee so quickly, you have to leave most of your personal belongings behind. W ...
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Molas: A Cloth Tradition
Among the Kuna people in the San Blas Islands of Panama, there is a tradition of making brightly colored panels of cloth called molas. In the Kuna language, mola is the word for shirt or clothing. A m ...
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More Outsider Art: The Orange Show
Right down the street in Houston from Smither Park is The Orange Show Monument. The center is a folk-art environment - a monumental work of handmade architecture - located in Houston's East End. It wa ...
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Outsider Art in Houston: Smither Park
After giving six presentations (Celebrating the Mexican Days of the Dead, Bridging the Curriculum through Art, Pride in Place and three others at the Davis Publications booth) at TAEA Galveston, I was ...
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Artists' Responses to the Paris Attacks
Artists show solidarity in wake of a tragedy. ...
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Welcomed in Wisconsin: The WAEA 2015 Conference
I'm just back from the Wisconsin Art Education Conference at Lawrence University in Appleton where I presented Art Saves Lives and a presentation on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, ...
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Autumn in Vermont at the 2015 VATA Conference
As a keynote speaker for the Vermont Art Teachers Association conference in Burlington and Shelburne, I was delighted to see some fall color. Here in Texas in the fall, most of our leaves just turn br ...
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Celebrating Cultural Diversity through the Arts
What does the word “culture” bring to mind? Cultural diversity or cultural traditions? Cultural appropriation or cultural appreciation? Popular culture or visual culture? Cultural assumpti ...
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Sandy Skoglund Workshop at NATA Conference
I'm just back from presenting at the very successful Nebraska Art Teachers Association Conference in Omaha, Nebraska. One of the highlights was an interactive workshop with keynote speaker, artist San ...
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