by Elaine | Aug 25, 2017 | Teaching
Visual Thinking Strategies, or VTS, is a style of art museum tour that can also be used in any classroom, or even at home. You know the standard type of museum tour, where the docent tells you about the artist’s life and what the painting means? VTS flips that...
by Elaine | Aug 8, 2017 | Teaching
“Wow, this is a great project, they could use this in this other art program!” That’s a comment I often get on my Kirigami Prayer Flags (aka Blessing Banners) project. Because it’s super cool, almost fool-proof, can be enjoyed by adults and...
by Elaine | May 29, 2017 | About Creativity, Teaching
I was noticing recently that lot of my art classes are subtly or overtly positive: Random Acts of Kindness Art Daruma Dolls (part of Japanese Dolls) Blessing Banners/Kirigami Prayer Flags Making Mandalas and even my “negative” classes, such as Rock the...
by Elaine | May 28, 2017 | Teaching
A variation of the Rock the Protest Poster class, in the Activist T-shirt class, students learn (quickly, as this is a two hour workshop!) to identify their idea and think symbolically. Here are some Activist T-shirts by tweens at day camp: Inking a...
by Elaine | May 28, 2017 | Teaching
In this class, I work with students to give them a process for figuring out what topics they care about, and then how to express their position on that topic using images and words. We also talk about photographing their posters in order to share them online. Here are...
by Elaine | May 27, 2017 | Teaching
I went to my blog recently to find photos to share of all the wonderful art my students make, and that’s when I realized the photos aren’t here! I take the photos but for whatever reason, I haven’t been posting them. Today, I’m fixing that!...
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