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Editor's Letter: Contemporary Art

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | Frank Juárez

In 2022, I began to reassess how I present curricula to all my students. I wondered if the artists I was introducing reflected who they are in their identities and why it is important to bring diverse ...

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Masterpiece Mash-ups

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | Leigh Drake

One of my goals each year is to incorporate as many artists, art movements, and famous artworks into the curriculum as possible to expose my students to the world of art through both historical and co ...

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Sculpting the Everyday

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | Brigid Horgan

At the beginning of the semester, I have my eighth-graders each select a theme to pursue for the entire course to help eliminate artist’s block along the way and encourage them to think creative ...

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Triple-Take: Contemporary Art through Composite Photography

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | Loria Crews

Contemporary art is all about pushing boundaries, and this project does just that by asking students to explore identity, culture, family, and society through a single image made of three different &l ...

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The Case for Contemporary Art

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | Kimberly Olson

When I started out as an educator nearly twenty years ago, I had an unfounded but steadfast aversion to contemporary art. Informed only by my college art history lectures, which made little mention of ...

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Editor's Letter: Advocacy

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | Frank Juárez

In this issue, we introduce various ways to address advocacy through multiple lenses. What it looks like in our art room will range on how we address topics or issues such as cultural perspectives, eq ...

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Masterpieces from Mistakes

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | Sarah Chaffee

One of my biggest pet peeves is when a student throws away a perfectly good piece of paper because it has a small rip, wrinkle, smudge, hole, or even a scribble. A few years ago, I happened across Bar ...

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Abstract Modernism: Inspired by Elizabeth Murray

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | Megan Giampietro

I was interested in teaching my middle-school art students diversified art history lessons about the work of a woman in the arts who was important in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Elizabet ...

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What Is Luminous

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | Kari Giordano

Starting the course with this project ensured students’ comfort level and introduced them to the transformative power of photography. I wanted to emphasize the importance of finding joy in every ...

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An Art Exchange with Ukraine

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | Nelli Helton

Through art, we can communicate with people from all over the world. Stories can be told, feelings expressed, and an understanding of other artists and their work can be established without learning o ...

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Editor's Letter: Collaboration

Friday, December 20, 2024 | Frank Juárez

Teaching can be a solitary experience, even if your art department has multiple art teachers. The art room becomes an island full of art, materials, and ideas. The reality is that this does not have t ...

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Coolaboration

Friday, December 20, 2024 | Linda Schober

As educators, we teach skills that are valuable in the classroom as well as skills that can be carried into students’ everyday lives. Kindness and collaboration are crucial skills in all aspects ...

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An Art Lesson from a Florist

Friday, December 20, 2024 | Courtney Lipscomb

A few years ago, I had the daughter of the local florist in my art class. On Meet the Teacher Night, she offered her help, like most parents do. Four years later, when I had her youngest daughter in m ...

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SMACK! Collaborating for Impact

Friday, December 20, 2024 | Trish Klenow

In April 2023, every Art 1 student at Green Level High School created a vibrant 4' (1m) jellyfish out of marine rope and monofilament (fishing line) reclaimed from the Atlantic. The 100-plus giant jel ...

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Collaboration in the Clay Room

Friday, December 20, 2024 | Andrea Worthey

I began to look at my classroom projects as more than cross-curricular integrations through cross-referencing content materials; they were also opportunities for true collaboration. I wanted students ...

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Editor's Letter: Storytelling

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 | Frank Juárez

How does one begin to tell a story? Does it start with a memory, a recent experience, or perhaps an essential question that sparks an idea? Through the stories we share, we can transport our students ...

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Editor's Letter: Contemporary Art

Masterpiece Mash-ups

Sculpting the Everyday

Triple-Take: Contemporary Art through Composite Photography

The Case for Contemporary Art

Editor's Letter: Advocacy

Masterpieces from Mistakes

Abstract Modernism: Inspired by Elizabeth Murray

What Is Luminous

An Art Exchange with Ukraine

Editor's Letter: Collaboration

Coolaboration

An Art Lesson from a Florist

SMACK! Collaborating for Impact

Collaboration in the Clay Room

Editor's Letter: Storytelling

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