There is something super motivating for students about optical illusions. Maybe it's the repetitive nature of creating them or the...

​​November is here and its crazy to think that I only have my current students for one more month until the first trimester of the year...

Inspired by modern Japanese artist Korehiko Hino's Surreal portraits, my students studied the principle of design EMPHASIS as they...

I am somewhat a formalist when it comes to teaching art. I enjoy building my students' observation /technical drawing skills through...

As my students are finishing up their 3D plaster letters my room becomes overloaded with half-done plastered pieces everywhere and while...

My 7th grade students love these Robert Indiana-inspired 3D forms that they make using the initials of their first name. We discuss...

Engaging my apathetic 8th graders is always a challenge, especially when it comes to building on skills that they do NOT like... like...

For some reason I catch myself super excited to post about my 6th grade every week. Maybe it's because I haven't taught 6th in a while...

Sometime you get a group of kids that are just too cool for school. They think that they've reached a certain age and that they have...

My 6th grade students were busy this week building triangular prisms out of cardboard and manipulating materials to create Wayne...