This week we finally got to re-open the clay center after 3 years. We have been waiting for approval of installation into the new art studio. The momentum has been building for quite sometime, so a “soft opening” like a restaurant was just right for us and making Artist Chops. Students can use their chopsContinue reading “Cartwheels for Clay”
Category Archives: Art on Campus
B2School Banners 2015
The tradition of Back to School Banners took on a special meaning this year in our new building. Inspired by place and location of our school, each room has been named after trees in our region and types of natural habitats surrounding our resources of the Potomac River and Anacostia River of the Chesapeake Bay.Continue reading “B2School Banners 2015”
Pecha Kucha for Boston!
After July 4th in the cute little town of Bristol RI, I’ll be heading up to Boston for the Teaching Artistic Behavior Institute. While looking at the info of what to bring, they listed preparing a Pecha Kucha…had no clue, but do now (Japanese chit-chat presentation style of 20 slides for 20 seconds) and hereContinue reading “Pecha Kucha for Boston!”
Anti-Bullying and Art
Centaur Celebration Days engage students by offering choices of activities and events for multi-age groups for a series of Fridays. Because a stretch of time was getting off-track on how we treat each other on campus, we offered this particular group of students they called “Art Cats” an opportunity to find ways to address thisContinue reading “Anti-Bullying and Art”
Studio Habits of Mind
Learning about Studio Habits of Mind and finding these behaviors in our students has been exhilarating! Exhilarating because TAB is working. Our students are making choices that challenge their own capabilities, express their inner voice and tweek their observations. Here is what I’m talking about during the first 2 months in our new space approachingContinue reading “Studio Habits of Mind”
Place Based Teaching
Place based teaching
Tables turning for TAB
Practicing the art ed approach TAB Teaching Artistic Behavior this year has taught me so much more about my students. They love to sit, they love to stand, they love to work in clusters, they love to be quiet by the window, they love to work for a WOW and they love to experiment. TheContinue reading “Tables turning for TAB”
ebook now published!
Portfolio of Practice is a great resource for elementary art teachers (and older as my classmate informed me) to incorporate contemporary art and methods into your studio classroom. No longer will I teach “how to paint a symmetrical butterfly using warm and cool colors in five steps.” Contemporary art and methods using ten artists fromContinue reading “ebook now published!”
The Porch Project accepted by Kickstarter!
Hello artsaysthat subscribers, I’m writing to share The Porch Project as my final artwork at the Corcoran College of Art and Design to be completed April 2014. The Porch Project started to emerge in my very first graduate course. Throughout the program I have learned to apply personal meaning into my work the value inContinue reading “The Porch Project accepted by Kickstarter!”
10 Thesis Lessons
These are the 10 contemporary artists from the Corcoran Gallery of Art collection that I chose to practice in my elementary classroom studio below. The awareness of these artists and the new art experiences were influenced by Olivia Gude’s Principles of Possibility and the use of thinking strategy: See, Think, Wonder. Each art experience wasContinue reading “10 Thesis Lessons”
Paige P. Byrne 