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How to Encourage Your Students’ Inspiration

Where do artists get their ideas? We know there are very few completely original ideas and artwork out there. Many...
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How Action Research Can Improve Your Teaching

Do you ever find yourself looking at a classroom problem with not a clue in the world about how to...
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What Does Visual Culture Look Like in the Elementary Art Room?

What is Visual Culture? In Kerry Freedman’s book, Teaching Visual Culture: Curriculum, Aesthetics, and the Social Life of Art,  she...
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4 Ways to Use 3D Pens in the Art Room

New technologies are continually hitting the market. Educators are always looking for the next innovative thing to bring into their...
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How to Run a Design Challenge

Are you seeking new ways to jump-start an exciting and creative tone in your classroom? Would you like to make...
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A Simple Way to Teach Your Students to Design Patterns

When I first started teaching art, I wanted my students to learn to draw using the elements and principles while...
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How to Start Collaborating With Non-Art Colleagues

How many times have you talked about collaborating with your colleagues, but for whatever reason it still hasn’t happened? It’s...
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A Pinterest-Inspired Project With Outstanding Results

Portraiture can be tricky to teach. Not only is the human form difficult to draw, many students feel self-conscious when...
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When You Want to Try Arts Integration (Ep. 161)

On today’s episode, after 6 months away, Andrea Slusarski makes her triumphant return! She and Tim talk all things arts...
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How to Teach the Studio Habit: Understanding Art Worlds

Have you used the Studio Habits of Mind in your art room? If not, they are wonderful habits to share with your...
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10 Digital Artists You Should Know

The advancement of and access to technology has allowed digital arts education to become more prevalent in schools. Although it...
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A More Effective Way to Plan Your AP Courses

In 2018, College Board changed the requirements and structure for Advanced Placement Studio Art courses, now called AP Art and...
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