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What's Your Story?

Thursday, December 3, 2015 | Nancy Walkup

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

Thursday, December 3, 2015 | Nancy Walkup

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

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 | Nancy Walkup

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

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 | Nancy Walkup

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

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 | Nancy Walkup

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

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 | Nancy Walkup

Artists show solidarity in wake of a tragedy. ...

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Welcomed in Wisconsin: The WAEA 2015 Conference

Friday, October 23, 2015 | Nancy Walkup

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

Friday, October 23, 2015 | Nancy Walkup

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

Wednesday, October 7, 2015 | Nancy Walkup

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

Tuesday, September 22, 2015 | Nancy Walkup

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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