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Teach LaToya Hobb’s Relief Portraits to Your K-12 Students w/ Speed Dating & Scratch Art (Ep. 5)

Lindsey McGinnis | June 19, 2025

Learn how to bring the artist LaToya Hobbs to your K-12 art classroom! Start with a brief crash course of background information about the artist and their artwork. LaToya Hobbs is a Baltimore-based artist and printmaker who creates large-scale woodcut portraits. The relief prints feature intricate line work and women of color.

Find practical and engaging ways to bring LaToya Hobbs to your elementary and secondary art students. Joe shares how to discuss the correlation between color schemes and mood. Harris facilitates a speed-dating exercise for students to examine LaToya Hobb’s portraits before trying scratch art to practice their own line work.

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Lindsey McGinnis

Lindsey McGinnis is AOE’s Media Content Manager and a former high school art educator. She is passionate about equipping art teachers to be successful in their classrooms and firmly believes that art is the best place for students to explore and process the challenging topics and concepts around them.

Teach LaToya Hobb’s Relief Portraits to Your K-12 Students w/ Speed Dating & Scratch Art (Ep. 5)

Lindsey McGinnis

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