Refuse to Quit, How to Become an Artist
Art has always been a major highlight and focus of not only your education, but your life. You have consistently been drawn to areas that involve artistry and innovation. Your early memories include going to art classes with your mother, looking over her shoulder and being fascinated by the creative process. The idea of manifesting […]
Everybody Loves Inservice
I had a love/ hate relationship with inservice. And the only reason that I say, “had”, is because I no longer work for the public school system, and inservice is a thing of my past. Now, I realize that I may have lost you when I said the words love and inservice to very close […]
Let’s get the pARTy stARTed. 3 lessons for Secondary ART teachers
The start of a new school year or semester always comes with a lot of emotions. There’s excitement, nerves, overwhelm, and the feeling of wondering if you’re good enough, and most importantly if any of your friends are going to be in your class. While students are comparing schedules, us teachers, and writing lessons, stretching […]
A complete guide to stocking your Art supply closet
After a year and half, our little yard is no longer a big pile of dirt, it has a patio, flower beds, and grass is growing!! These things are excited in and of themselves, but the really excited part is that means that it’s time to add all of the fun details….. DECORATE… and, well […]
How to Understand Modern Art
I walk a mile to work each day, and no this isn’t like one of those stories that your parents or grandparents tell you about they had a walk a mile up hill in the snow to get to school, when they really lived next door to the school, I really do walk a mile […]
What if you never start?
What if I never took a weaving class? I took a weaving class in college, partly because I thought that it sounded interesting, and partly because it fit my schedule. Sometimes I wonder, what would I be doing now if I’d never signed up for that class. Weaving isn’t something that you just pick up […]
The Case for Creativity: How to be a Strong Thinker
”Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.” ~Steven Pressfield When I was a kid my two favorite things to make where, […]
What Homeschoolers Need to Know about Applying to Art College
During my senior year of high school I was struggling with depression and battling an eating disorder, all why attempting to decide where I wanted to go to college. I knew that I wanted to be an art teacher, but the options of where to study seemed endless. I could go to a 4 year […]
There’s so much to do … and then you need to teach
Sometimes life is complicated, because we make it that way. And sometimes it’s complicated just because it’s life. Most weeks your to do list is longer than humanly possible, and somehow you forget, that every week that passes, without you crossing everything off of the list, somehow you don’t die, your kids don’t starve ,and […]
17 Emotions of being an Art Teacher
Overwhelmed at the teetering pile of projects waiting to be graded. Heartbroken at the sight of cracked, melted ceramics pieces as you open the lid to the kiln, now to break the news to the students. Tired from explaining why art matters, and because you never get enough sleep….. Because…. All those projects, […]