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The Top Five Types of Tattoos for Art Teachers
If you’re thinking about getting a tattoo, there are many decisions you’ll need to make before the ink meets your...
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5 Ways to Take Wearable Art to the Next Level in Your Art Room
For art teachers, the term “wearable art” probably evokes a vision of one of two things: an accidental collision of...
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How to Help Your School Break Free of the Gallery Mentality
Art has always had a high brow quality about it. Traditionally, fine artworks have been adorned with elaborate frames and...
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When, if Ever, Is It OK to Draw A Gun?
A seven year old boy chewed his breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun. He pointed the pastry and...
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The Best Classroom Management Strategies I Never Follow
It’s back to school and along with ordering supplies and setting up the room, many art teachers are focusing on...
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Kick Off the School Year With an Art-Inspired Music Video!
Visual arts and music go together just about as well as peanut butter and jelly. The Egyptians and the ancient...
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Yes, You Can Write a TAB Lesson Plan
There are many teachers hoping to try out a TAB model in their classrooms that get stuck at step one:...
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Would You Let an Unenrolled Student Stay in Your Class?
There is a scene in my all time favorite movie, Mean Girls, where the Math teacher Sharon Norbury (Tina Fey)...
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The Best Book to Introduce Art History to Older Students
I’m going to give you a choice. You’re about to walk into a room full of adolescents and introduce the...
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Host a Reunion Show to Stay Connected With Former Students!
Staying connected with our students once they leave our class is difficult enough. Staying connected after they graduate high school...
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I Don’t Like Grading, and, Uh, I Don’t Think I’m Gonna Grade Anymore
There is a scene in the movie Office Space where the main character, Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is on a...
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Mystery Solved: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a 3D Anamorphosis Drawing
How many times have we stared in amazement at the street art chalk drawings of Julian Beever or the 3D...
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