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Teaching Art: Experiences, Methods and Materials
http://mchughart.blogspot.com
Professional visual artist and teaching artist blogs about art related topics in hopes that her descriptions and reflections about teaching art, methods and materials, are of use for non-artists in developing their own framework for processing art teaching experiences.
- Added on: Oct 12th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Kathleen McHugh
- Listed in: Arts Education
- Tags: visual art teaching artists art projects and lessons classroom art learning requirements parents and teachers
Recent Posts
Classroom Auction Project: Reverse Glass Painting
Reverse glass painting refers to glass art which is painted on one side and displayed to be viewed through the opposite side. Lampshades are one example of an object that lends itself to this technique. I have used this approach to create class mural...
Youth Arts Projects: Mural Painting and Mosaic
This link will take you to examples of youth collaborative arts projects encompassing a wide range of age and skill levels.http://www.mchughart.net/examples_of_youth_arts_projects_painting_and_mosaic...
Classroom Art Projects for Auction: Tin Punch Screen
One of the challenges that comes with creating classroom auction projects is to find blocks of time in which students can create the art without disrupting the teacher and monthly classroom schedule. An approach that reduces overall impact on the tea...
Garden Art and "Green Graffiti"
I live in an area of the country which both has a dank wet climate suitable for growing moss, and an area that encourages learning about the environment through "eco-arts projects". Moss is an excellent medium to include in the design of garden art o...
Classroom Auction Projects - Begin with a simple survey
Prior experience as a chair for classroom auction projects at various schools has taught me that the easiest way to get started is to send out a simple survey to the teachers, using the survey input to create a timeline for each class to bring the pr...
Making Holiday Gifts With A Diverse Group Of Students
Sometimes the most simple solution to a challenge is a good one. I have been in diversely populated school settings in which teachers approached gift making by avoiding it. One example is a teacher I know who abandoned the idea of making father's day...
