SchoolArtsRoom | Art Education Blog for K-12 Art Teachers

Exploring mathematical concepts through radial symmetry. Nancy Walkup   Young students can learn about radial symmetry or balance using just their eyes and the simple form of a paper pla...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2022/10/radial-symmetry-for-young-artists.html

        Our school is fortunate to have two therapy dogs, Daisy and Rosie, both West Highland terriers (Westies), who belong to our counselor, Marty Couch. She first had the idea of usi...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2022/10/drawing-miss-daisy.html

Alexandria Sturdevant "THE MAPLE-WOOD BLOCKS...ARE IN MY FINGERS TO THIS DAY." Frank Lloyd Wright         When I was younger, I can remember building life-sized castles, houses, and ...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2022/10/kindergarten-architects.html

Integrating art, math, and science in a beginning color lesson. Nancy Walkup           One of the first early childhood lessons I ever taught as an elementary teacher became one I a...

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Visual Culture for Kindergarten Nancy Walkup          Even very young children can start observing, thinking about, and talking about elements of the visual culture that surround the...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2022/10/right-beneath-your-feet.html

Pictograph hands, Utah, Photo by Gary Cascio Appreciation vs Appropriation: Addressing Cultural Appropriation in the Art Room “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2022/09/appreciation-vs-appropriation.html

Do you teach young children in your classroom? If so, you need this book, SchoolArts Collection: Early Childhood, with lessons for early childhood to second grade drawn from the pages of Sc...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2020/10/schoolarts-collection-early-childhood.html

This article was published in SchoolArts Magazine some time ago, but I am reposting it because it could be useful for students working at home during our quaranteaching time. Earth Art ...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2020/04/making-paints-with-natural-materials.html

These found object color wheels have been popping up on Facebook from the many art teachers trying to teach online. I think the idea originated with art teacher Don Masse.   ...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2020/03/found-object-color-wheels.html

This Carousel mural features a multicolor carnival scene. Putting It Together  How art displays enhance musical performances. Keith Mason A shorter version of this article is published ...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2019/09/putting-it-together-how-art-displays.html

I have wanted to try this lesson ever since SchoolArts published Phyllis Levine Brown's article, The Art, Math, and Science of Triflexahexagons. I finally got the chance with a teacher's inser...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2019/08/the-art-math-and-science-of.html

New Season, new website, and new blog look! It’s full Spring here in Santa Fe and more than just the trees and flowers are changing.  I’m excited to let you all know that SchoolArtsR...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2019/05/schoolartsroom-is-moving.html

RECOLLECTIVE ECHO Exhibition opening at the Ralph T. Coe Center Friday, May 10, 5-7 pm This year’s Hands-On Curatorial Program exhibition, Recollective Echo, opens to the public May 10, 5-7p...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2019/04/recollective-echo-curatorial-program.html

Scott Steinberg's Netiquette Essentials: New Rules for Minding Your Manners in a Digital World gives good guidelines for conducting ourselves online: Stay Classy: Be positive; if you wo...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2019/04/netiquette-essentials-for-minding-your.html

Ch’ullu for a New Leader, Aymar Ccopacatty Puno, Peru. plastic bags, caution tape, and fabric litter collected from around Lake Titicaca. Promised gift of Patricia M. Newman, Museum of In...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2019/04/sustainability-may-2019-schoolarts.html

This article as first published in the April 2019 SchoolArts Magazine . Tape Art: A tape art public residency in a small town. Michael Townsend and Leah Smith It is starting to get da...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2019/03/playing-with-tape-public-art-residency.html

Light is Easy to Love Artist Amy Sherald was a keynote speaker at the NAEA Boston conference this past week. SchoolArts Magazine was fortunate to feature her on the cover and through an int...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2019/03/artist-amy-sherald-blending-portraiture.html

Careful thought must be given to interpreting cultural images. These pictured here were painted on the side of a trading post in Albuquerque. Do you find that your students are open to inter...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2019/03/open-to-interpretation.html

What are media arts? The concept may be confusing to some, as media can be both traditional and contemporary. However, its acceptance as a term for embracing new forms of technology is suppor...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2019/02/introducing-schoolarts-first-collection.html

As former elementary art teachers, my husband and I enjoy helping out with the studio experiences at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe (MOIFA). Through the program Folk Art to...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2019/02/folk-art-to-go-making-puppets-at-moifa.html

Carlie Norman Photoshop Proofs and iMovie Spoofs Creating movie posters and trailers. Middle School Melody Weintraub SchoolArts Magazine, March 2019 When selecting projects for st...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2019/02/carlie-norman-photoshop-proofs-and.html

Hudson Taylor The Wonderful World of Fractals Connecting math, science, and digital art. Kevin Fogleston SchoolArts Magazine, March 2019 Do you aspire to implement innovative ways t...

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Illustration by Kasmira Mohanty Just what is media art? The concept may be confusing, as media can be both traditional and contemporary, but its acceptance as embracing new forms of technolo...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2019/02/illustration-by-kasmira-mohanty-just.html

In Santa Fe, New Mexico, we have an abundance of world-class museums and cultural attractions. Such a wealth often affords collaborations between different institutions and local schools...

https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2019/01/beads-seeds-steam-design-challenge.html

Amplifier is a design lab that builds art to amplify the voices of grassroots movements. We work with our community of social change partners to build symbols, language, and distribution stra...

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