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Today we welcome a guest post by AOE’s Educational Director Heather Crockett who is going to let us in on...

If your high schoolers are anything like my high schoolers, they love spending time talking about how bored they are....

I truly believe the media we present to students has a great impact on their enthusiasm for class. It’s great...

When I first started teaching middle school art over a decade ago, I was surprised and intrigued by the number...

 “Architecture is art you can’t escape.” My husband said those words to me the other day, and they really stuck...

Conducting critiques is an important part of teaching art. Critiques teach higher-order thinking skills, get students to interact with one...

If you’re having trouble keeping lesson planning under control, I recommend sticky note lists! Why? Well, when things get super...

Chew on this: if we line our students up with 3 minutes before the end of class, and we see...

Still lives are a staple of art education, but, boy, can they get boring in a hurry. Have you been...

Considered on of the most influential books on color, Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color has become the go-to book for...

Within my district, the elementary level art students are each provided a printed and bound sketchbook. Teachers get to choose...

When writing lesson plans, most teachers start with the objective: What will the student be able to do? The objective might...