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Exploring Bugs: Entomology as Art
Wednesday, October 9, 2019According to scientific studies (see Web Links), there are more than 200 million insects for each human on the planet! This is an astonishing fact I discovered while researching ideas for a lesson tha ...
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Mighty Morphs
Wednesday, October 9, 2019Many of our students are into tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons, card games such as Hearthstone and Magic: The Gathering, and, of course, movies and video games of all kinds. Fantasy, scie ...
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Sketchbook Scavenger Hunt
Wednesday, October 9, 2019In the decade or more that I’ve been leading my school’s art program, I’ve never been able to take my students on a field trip. The administration has approved visiting artists and g ...
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Editor's Letter: The Natural World
Wednesday, October 9, 2019For the past eight summers, CRIZMAC president Stevie Mack and I have been leading a cultural seminar we call Tres Culturas: Exploring the Artistic Spirit of Santa Fe and Taos. A highlight of this expe ...
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Mixtec Culture
Monday, September 30, 2019 | Karl ColeThe final post in my Hispanic Heritage Month series features the Mixtec culture. Throughout Mesoamerica, the great cultures of the Classic period (ca. 250–900 CE), the Mayan, Teotihuacán, ...
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Maya Culture
Friday, September 27, 2019 | Karl ColeFor today’s Hispanic Heritage Month post, let’s look at the Maya culture. The early Pre-Classic Mayans occupied Chiapas in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala until between 400 and 50 BCE, whe ...
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Teotihuacán
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 | Karl ColeMy look at ancient Mexico continues for Hispanic Heritage Month. Teotihuacán, 30 miles north of Mexico City, was by far the largest and most sophisticated city in ancient Mesoamerica, with cult ...
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Zapotec
Monday, September 23, 2019 | Karl ColeWe’re going to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15th through October 15th) with a blog series featuring art gems from a variety of cultures in Mexico. The cultures of ancient Me ...
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The 2019 Art Education Catalog is here!
Tuesday, September 17, 2019 | Barbara PlaceYou’ll love what’s in store for you this year in the Fall Catalog! We are introducing some of our most innovative titles and offerings. The new 2019–2020 Catalog is packed with excit ...
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September Red: Clyfford Still
Monday, September 16, 2019 | Karl ColeThis will be my second posting recently of a New York School-related (sort of) artist, but I couldn’t resist. While riding around rural Massachusetts this week, I spotted a young maple tree that ...
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Mail Art Madness
Wednesday, September 11, 2019When I was a student at the Maryland Institute College of Art, one of my favorite teachers, Ken Krafchek, told us to get in touch with a working artist. My classmates and I had to write brief reports ...
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Putting It Together
Wednesday, September 11, 2019Many schools regularly stage musicals. Their staging invites creative art lessons that can complement musicals’ themes and songs. For several years, I coordinated art lessons and curriculum init ...
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Editor’s Letter: Joy
Wednesday, September 11, 2019Watching Marie Kondo’s Netflix series, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, has me thinking about joy, but as it applies to art. Her method, introduced in her first book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidy ...
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Boxed Mythology
Wednesday, September 11, 2019I collaborated with my student Sarah Oschmann, who wrote most of this article. This lesson, inspired by artist Joseph Cornell, is rooted in the theme of mythology. Students were required to dive deep ...
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#YOURTURN: A Documentary Project
Wednesday, September 11, 2019One of the first things we learn as children is how to take a turn. This past school year, I launched a collaborative project called #YOURTURN. This is a photo-based project about interaction, engagem ...
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