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ART FOR THE END OF THE YEAR

ALTERED BOOKS FOR K–2 Kimberly J. B. Smith ANIMAL OPTIONS: A YEAR IN REVIEW Cheryl Crumpecker IT’S A JUNGLE OUT THERE Chrissy Leishear ON THE ART CAREER TRACK: VISUAL ART SK8ERS Irv Osterer ALIVE AND KICKING: BIG AND BOLD WITH DRAPLIN Don Masse JUNK MAIL FISH: AN ENVIRONMENTAL ART COLLAGE PROJECT Constance Del Nero

YEARLONG ART II CURRICULUM SERIES 10 WHERE THE TECHNICAL MEETS THE CREATIVE, LESSON 10 OF 10, ALTERED

BOOKS: THE ART II WAY TO KEEP A VISUAL JOURNAL Debi West

SPECIAL FEATURES AND COLUMNS 8 STEPPING STONES: END-OF-THE-YEAR PROJECT SOLUTIONS Heidi O’Hanley 46 TRIED & TRUE TIPS FOR ART TEACHERS: WRAP IT ALL UP Glenda Lubiner

READY-TO-USE CLASSROOM RESOURCES 23 ARTS & ACTIVITIES ART PRINT: HENRI ROUSSEAU, SURPRISED! Tara Cady Sartorius 45 ARTS & ACTIVITIES STUDY PRINT: ROYAL TIGER Eugène Delacroix

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As the end of this school year and summer break approach, we share with you classroom-tested projects perfect for these dwindling days. In our cover story, “Animal Options: A Year in Review,” K–3 art teacher Cheryl Crumpecker writes about the challenge of presenting “a project that would allow for a review of a large number of the terms and skills that had been studied throughout the year, while still providing the students adequate time to ‘illustrate’ an understanding of the material.” We think she met the challenge. See for yourself on page 14.

In the final installment of her “Yearlong Art II Curriculum Series,” Contributing Editor Debi West tells us that throughout their second semester of class, her students “... have weekly altered-book assignments that act as their performance final, where they alter an old book of their choice, and the results are fantastic, creative and, indeed, beautiful!” See how she does it in “Altered Books: The Art II Way to Keep a Visual Journal,” found on page 10.

“Book arts are all the rage in the world of grownup art making,” writes Kimberly J. B. Smith, “but how can this medium be made available to early elementary students?” Well, she has found a way and has shared it through her “Altered Books for K–2.” Flip to page 12, where she presents some great concepts and strategies to try.

Skateboards seem ubiquitous during the summer, which makes them a relevant topic in the art room this time of year. Whether you teach high school or elementary, or somewhere in between (I’m talking about you, middle-school teachers!), we have two projects that are sure to inspire your students to creative heights. Check out Irv Osterer’s “On the Art Career Track: Visual Art SK8ers” on page 18, and “Alive and Kicking: Big and Bold with Draplin” (page 20), by Don Masse.

Be sure to read this month’s “Stepping Stones” column, where Heidi O’Hanley offers her sage advice in “End-of-the-Year Project Solutions” (page 8). And, don’t miss Glenda Lubiner’s “Tried & True Tips for Art Teachers” (page 46) where she shares how to “Wrap It All Up” at the end of the school year.

As the school days dwindle, we know you’ll make the most of each moment with your students. Have a rewarding summer, whether vacationing, studying or working. We will see you again in our September issue ...

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EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Cris E. Guenter Professor of Arts Education/Curriculum and Instruction California State University, Chico

Jerome J. Hausman Lecturer, Consultant and Visiting Professor, at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Barbara Herberholz Art Education Consultant, Sacramento, California Mark M. Johnson Director, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama George Székely Senior Professor of Art Education, University of Kentucky, Lexington

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Geri Greenman Art Department Head (Retired), Willowbrook High School, Villa Park, Illinois Paula Guhin Art Teacher (Retired), Central HighSchool, Aberdeen, South Dakota Nan E. Hathaway Art Teacher, Crossett Brook Middle School, Duxbury, Vermont Amanda Koonlaba Art Teacher and Arts Integration Resource, Lawhon Elementary School, Tupelo, Mississippi Glenda Lubiner Middle-School Art Teacher, Franklin Academy Charter School, Pembroke Pines, Florida Don Masse Heidi O’Hanley

Art Teacher, Zamorano Fine Arts Academy, San Diego, California Art Teacher, Brodnicki Elementary School Justice, Illinois

Irv Osterer Department Head – Fine Arts and Technology, Merivale High School, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Debi West Lead Visual Art Teacher, North Gwinnett High School, Suwanee, Georgia

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END-OF-THE-YEAR PROJECT SOLUTIONS

BY HEIDI O'HANLEY

ongratulations! You are almost finished with the school year. It’s time to start wrapping up the remaining projects and finalize the portfolios. On top of wrapping up the final lessons, it’s also time to pack away everything you will need for the next school year. We all have different scenarios when it comes to closing up our spaces. If you’re on a cart, you might be doing an inventory on stock before that final push of the cart into your storage space. Some teachers are reassigned to new spaces and need to pack away everything they use for instruction. Others have multiple schools to pack up, and some teachers just close and lock the classroom door. No matter where you teach or what you need to do to wrap up the school year, it’s nice to have projects at the end of the year that are less complex. Here are a few ideas for the end-of-the-year projects that can help with the extra duties of packing:

WORK WITH SIMPLE MATERIALS THAT ARE EASY TO PACK AWAY. From personal experience, the last thing

you want to be working with on your last day of school is any project that requires heavy liquid paints, beads, gems, feathers, glitter or clay. All your bigger materials should be ready to be packed away for easier cleanup. There was a year I worked with acrylic paint on the last day of school, and the students had a difficult time bringing their artwork home with their full bookbags. It was an early mistake I do not wish to make again, so please make sure the materials you work with can be something they can take with them on that last day of school.

USE TEMPERA CAKES FOR EASY CLEANUP AND QUICK DRY. My younger grade levels are normally bouncy

and excited at the end of the school year. Many times, drawing projects will not be enough to catch and keep their attention in those last few classes. If you even say the word “paint,” kindergarten students will jump for joy. My favorite paint to use at the end of the year is tempera cakes. They are easy to set up and clean up before and after projects. The paint also dries quickly, so even afternoon classes on the last day can take their projects home.

CREATE DRAWING LESSONS FOCUSED ON PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN. A good majority of my end-of-the-year

projects are drawings. You can use up the last of the pencils, rulers, markers and coloring materials to complete your projects. There are plenty of projects you can create with these simple materials—from sketching to still life, portraits 8

to perspective, symmetry to “zentangle” designs. You can have students complete their end-of-the-year project with simple materials.

USE UP THE SCRAPS. Do you save a ton of colored

scrap paper for projects? Do you have glue bottles that need to be emptied out? Consider a paper collage–type project to use up all the scraps! What better way to talk about Matisse’s paper cutouts or create paper sculptures while using up what materials you have left!

CREATE SIMPLE OP-ART PROJECTS. In my upper grade levels, students work with op-art designs to exercise their brains in the last weeks. It’s almost as if they are working toward solving a puzzle within their own work. Op art is a form of abstract art that gives the illusion of movement by using patterns and colors. Using limited materials, students can create amazing optical illusions!

UTILIZE THE TECHNOLOGY. Are there Chromebooks available? Do you have tablets? Do you have a projector? Whatever you have, you can work within your technology to give the students experiences without all the materials. Create an online Jeopardy game to revisit prior knowledge learned throughout the year. Do you have a Symbaloo (www.symbaloo.com) account? My students visit my art-game Symbaloo table to play games once they’re done writing artist statements.

HAVE A PLAYGROUND OR COURTYARD? Work with

COLLABORATION DAYS. On those last days of school,

your space! On warm days, you can take students outside and work with the environment. You can do sidewalk chalk drawings, or earth art/nature-object art inspired by artist Andy Goldsworthy.

you can have students work collaboratively with art games or mini projects. It will help keep students active in those last few classes. If you are ever stuck on finding quick and simple ideas for the end of the year, visit your social media art-teacher groups and just ask. Many educators are willing to share their knowledge to help you along the way. Enjoy the rest of your school year with your students, and stay positive! Summer is almost here! n Arts & Activities Contributing Editor, Heidi O’Hanley (NBCT), teaches art at Brodnicki Elementary School in Justice, Illinois. Visit her blog at www.talesfromthetravelling artteacher.blogspot.com. j u n e 2 0 1 7 • 84 Y E A R S

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Yearlong Art II Curriculum Series | WHERE THE TECHNICAL MEETS THE CREATIVE

LESSON 10 OF 10

Altered Books: The Art II Way to Keep a Visual Journal by Debi West

ho doesn’t love taking something old and turning it into something beautiful? Well, that’s exactly what my Art II students do throughout their second semester of class: they have weekly altered-book assignments that act as their performance final, where they alter an old book of their choice, and the results are fantastic, creative and, indeed, beautiful!

THE ASSIGNMENTS CONSIST of weekly prompts, listed below, and each twopage spread is required to have a drawing, collage and, obviously, some text showing through. The point of the altered book is to alter the pages that are in the current book with either traditional media or cutting and gluing pages together to create miniature sculptures within the pages, or pop-up pages that then become interactive. These weekly assignments are about pushing my students to take risks while reminding them the importance of practice in terms of drawing and compositional skills. The real challenge lies

Students’ divergent thinking skills are pushed as they must create themes for their books, creatively use the weekly prompts and make their work fit into their themed books.

in that I have my students come up with a theme for their book, which then pushes their divergent thinking skills as they have to creatively use the weekly prompt and make it fit into their themed book. For example, a few weeks ago the prompt was “Relay for Life,” as our school was kicking off our big Relay for Life fundraiser. One of my students was having a hard time figuring out how to make that

prompt fit into her “Under the Sea” book. After several conversations and some research, she found a piece of coral that resembled the Relay ribbon and drew that with the fish having their own Relay for Life party under the sea! She made it work and created a beautiful spread that became an important part of her overall book. From “Resolutions” and “Spring Break,” to “Youth Art Month” and “Joy,” the prompts push my students to think outside of the box and come up with incredible visual stories within their altered books, this is what teaching and learning should look like— they GET IT and they are encouraged to take risks! Although my altered books assignments are considered an “at-home” activity, I do give kids a free “altered

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LESSON 10 OF 10

ART II CURRICULUM SERIES

Spring Altered Book/ Visual Journal Assignments Dear Students: Each Monday, a new set of page designs will be due. Each design will cover two pages, called a “spread.” No late grades will be given! If you are absent, you must see me when you return to class in order to get credit, just as we did with our sketchbooks. If you do not show me your work the day you return, you will not receive credit for those page designs. A “zero” will seriously hurt your final altered book grade. Remember: 50 percent of each spread should be direct observation—drawing is a must.

THE THEMES

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book” day ever y now and then in class, and they love it! The conversations and the learning go to the next level and students really begin to see how important it is to use their technical skills in relation to their creativity to make these memorable altered-book spreads. At the end of the semester, students present their 12 spreads and discuss what they learned. The last page of the book has a required written critique on the overall book and explains the challenges and learning that went along with this semester-long assignment. It’s only April as I write this, and I absolutely cannot wait to see how GREAT these books turn out!

1. New Year’s Resolution(s) Due: Jan 23

7. Time

2. Journey

8. Spring Break Memories Due: Apr 17 9. Be Creative with Due: Apr 24 Numbers

Due: Jan 30

3. Fill your page with Due: Feb 13 LOVE… symbols, Valentines. BE CREATIVE! 4. Joy! Due: Feb 27 5. Youth Art Month. Art

Due: Mar 13

6. Relay for Life

Due: Mar 20

Education Advocacy — Why?

10. Monochromatic Study

Due Mar 27

Due: May 8

11. Tie it all together:

Due: May 15 A Free Choice Day that pulls the book together

12. Final Presentation:

May15 Present Your Altered Book and Performance Final for a final grade!

Work HARD and CONSISTENTLY! Do your research and be CREATIVE!

I HOPE THAT YOU HAVE ENJOYED

this 10 part series of Art II lessons throughout the school year. I know that I have thoroughly enjoyed writing them and reflecting on the ways in which I teach my students. I hope that you have found creative ways to springboard from these to take your teaching and your students’ learning to the next level! n A&A Contributing Editor Debi West, Ed.S, NBCT, is Art Dept. Chair at North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee, Ga.

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ook arts are all the rage in the world of grownup art making, but how can this medium be made available to early elementary students? Following are some great concepts and strategies to try. TIP: use board books! A great many of them lack the literar y “chops” to be saved for academic reasons. What they do have, by design, is the per fect substrate for young children. While shaped books can inspire creative ideas, we used uniformly shaped books for these projects. With a little “advertising” (asking people to give their castoffs to you), you’ll have a nice collection to work with in no time. Don’t bother selecting books for their original topic, however, as they will soon be sanded and covered. Why sanded? Board books are high gloss by design because infants and toddlers use them and the books must be frequently cleaned. A light sanding of the glossy pages helps them accept glue. Students enjoy par ticipating in the sanding, but circulate through the room to assist those who need it. Board books can be glued completely shut, becoming a substrate and frame in one. Young students can add beautiful elements simply by gluing. Older students can carve, drill and cut elements in the book. Books can also be sectioned off into FIRST

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one, two, three or more pages per student. There are infinite ways to use these discarded books. IN KINDERGARTEN, the students can

practice their ABCs and 1-2-3s in an altered book, while creating a unique self-portrait on the cover. Use blank price tags, stamps for numbers and letters, and a collection of paper embellished by the students. A week of preparation involves the creation of sheets of sgraffito to be cut and used over the original book. These sheets can be placed in a “class collection” to be shared. This way, there can be light/dark contrast between the background colors and the squares on which the numbers and letters are stamped. The cover art is a self-por-

Some letters for the childrens’ reference.

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Kindergarten The younger set incorporated their ABCs and 1-2-3s into their altered books, and created unique self-portraits for the covers. 12

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trait using miniature school photos and a paper doll–like tracer for embellishment with a costume. The interior reveals the alphabet and the numbers are on the back. FIRST GRADERS can create an Henri

Rousseau–inspired image that touts foreground, middle ground and background. Add a review of animals in Rousseau’s paintings (we chose tigers because our school mascot is one). Once again, preparation of sgraffito sheets for use in a light blue sky, background in green and purple mountains (as sung in the song, America the Beautiful). Add details of Rousseau’s style, such as a red sun and stylized flower. SECOND GRADERS can use a Russian folktale (The Golden Fish) and Japanese fish printing (“Gyotaku”) with collage to create an artwork incorporating printmaking and literature. A simple pop-up inside is wildly exciting for youngsters! Discarded dictionary pages cover the original book pages, serve as a unifying background, and create the possibility of word play. Students take turns printing fish (the rubber kind) in gold ink to adorn the book as they choose. Each student created two final fish prints. An adaptation (by me) of the Golden Fish tale is separated into three sections for the students to put on three pages. Further use of the stor y can include creating sentences—often funny—within each section of the stor y. One piece of decorative paper is added as embellishment (cut into a repeated shape and placed on all pages) with a unify-

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First Graders These young artists created a Rousseauinspired image that featured foreground, middle ground and background.

Sophie First-graders could refer to this handout if they needed a bit of help.

ing background color in watercolor to complete the piece. All of these projects are presented at a level that is age appropriate with countless extension possibilities for students who are able. This book-altering format can be used in an infinite number of ways! This project presents students with an essential question, “How can we recycle and create outstanding works of ar t?” And, students come away from the experience with the enduring understanding that making ar t does not have to be costly and recycling materials can provide the oppor tunity for unique inspiration and ar t. n Kimberly J.B. Smith teaches K–3 art at Valley View Community School in Farmington, N.H. During the summer, she teaches at Wolfeboro Summer Boarding School in Wolfeboro, N.H.

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MATERIALS

Ben attached a paper stick to his tiger so he could make it move.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES Primary-level students will ... • learn how reusing, reducing and recycling to create artworks can save resources and offer unique aesthetic possibilities.

NATIONAL ART STANDARDS

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CREATE (Kindergarten): Engage in explor- ation and imaginative play with materials. • CREATE (Grade 1): Use art vocabulary to describe choices while creating art. • PRESENT (Grade 2): Categorize artwork based on a theme or concept for an exhibit.

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Grade 2 The Golden Fish, a Russian folktale, and Japanese fish printing (“Gyotaku”) were featured in the second-graders’ books.

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All Grades • Board books (two pages per student) • Sandpaper • White glue, diluted glue to apply sheets over board pages, large paintbrushes to apply glue • Prepared sgraffito papers for K–1 Kindergarten • 12" x 18" manila paper, sgraffito tools • Tempera paint in light and dark hues • Blank oaktag squares, body tracers, white glue, scissors, price tags, alphabet stamps • Decorative papers • Student photos or self-portrait sketches Grade 1 • Two sheets of 12" x 18" manila paper (one for light blue sgraffito (cover and sky), half a sheet for green sgraffito, and half for purple sgraffito—per student • Pencils, sgraffito tools, black permanent markers • Reproductions of Rousseau’s art, handout with foreground plants, red sun, Rousseau flower, tiger • White construction paper (for foreground sketch, red sun and flower) • Media to color foreground, sun and flower • White glue, scissors Grade 2 • Dictionary pages (four per student) • Adaptation of Russian folktale • Pencils, black permanent markers • Gyotaku fish, gold printing ink, large paintbrush, white printing paper • Copyright-free fish images • 3" x 9" oaktag for pop-up wave • Watercolor paints • Decorative papers, scissors, white glue. Go to artsandactivities.com and click on this button for resources related to this article. 13

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needs, not to mention the fact that children love to draw animals, I love the high contrast created with a black glue outline, and who doesn’t love the ease of liquid watercolors? DAY ONE Before begin-

ning their drawings, we had a quick review of drawing from obser vation versus memor y, filling the picture plane, close-up, environment, foreground, Elie Charlotte

he third-graders had only three class periods remaining for the year—a mere two and a half hours. My challenge was to present a project that would allow for a review of a large number of the terms and skills that had been studied throughout the year, while still providing the students adequate time to “illustrate” an understanding of the material. The first order of business was to decide on subject matter and medium. Looking through my files of “projects I’d like to try someday,” I came across a page torn from an old art-supply catalog featuring one called “Glue Resist Watercolor Safari.” It inspired a project that perfectly fit my educational

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background, overlapping and texture. Students then chose to draw from memor y, or from obser ving 3-D models, photos, and illustrations of an animal of their choice. Using pencil, they lightly sketched a close-up (head or whole body) of an animal and then added an appropriate environment if desired. DAY TWO Students finished their pen-

cil drawings and then started outlining them with black glue. Many third-graders have a hard time controlling the flow of black glue squeezed directly from the bottle: The glue tips seem to either be clogged or large puddles are formed by squeezing too hard. As an alternate method of applying the glue, we used old wooden stylus sticks left over from

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scratchboard projects that we repeatedly dipped into small cups of glue and drew short strokes along the contour lines. Applying glue with the sticks produced an irregular textured line that looked equally great as tough elephant skin and fuzzy -aced foxes. The black glue–outlined animals were then placed on the dr ying rack to await next week’s painting. DAY THREE We started with a review of watercolor terms and techniques, brush care, color schemes (complementary, cool/warm, analogous), realistic versus imaginary, dry brush, wet on wet, and resist. Then I set out the

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Cheryl Crumpecker teaches K–3 Art at St. Paul’s Episcopal Day School in Kansas City, Missouri.

NATIONAL ART STANDARDS

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watercolor supplies and returned the students’ black glue drawings. Before starting, students first chose a color scheme. Since the black glue separates shapes, it created a good resist that prevented unwanted color blending even when painted within a short time. Most students finished within 20–25 minutes. This project was a perfect way for my third-graders to demonstrate their mastery of the materials, and a number of techniques and terms. n

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CREATING: Conceiving and developing artistic ideas and work. • PRESENTING: Interpreting and sharing artistic work.

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Pencils, black permanent markers 12" x 14" watercolor paper White glue mixed with black ink, wooden stylus sticks • Images and 3-D models of animals • Liquid watercolors, watercolor brushes and supplies

LEARNING OBJECTIVES Elementary students will … • learn about artist Henri Rousseau and create a jungle scene inspired by his work. • follow a directed drawing of a tiger. • explore various ways to cut paper. • use overlapping to create depth, working background to foreground.

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CREATING: Conceiving and developing artistic ideas and work. • PRESENTING: Interpreting and sharing artistic work. • RESPONDING: Understanding and evaluating how the arts convey meaning. • CONNECTING: Relating artistic ideas and work with personal meaning and external context.

Students glued their leaves and flowers down, overlapping them and filling up the paper.

MATERIALS/RESOURCES

• 9" x 12" orange and 12" x 18" green construction paper • Pencils, pastels • Regular and decorative-edge scissors • Tissue paper and construction paper scraps • Glue sticks • Visuals of Rousseau’s jungle paintings (including this month’s Art Print on page 24) • Book: The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau, by Michelle Markel (Eerdmans Publishing Company; 2012)

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Some students placed their tigers front and center, while others chose to have them popping their heads in from either side of the paper.

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ave you ever dreamed of doing something people doubted you could do? No one thought Henri Rousseau could paint, but that didn’t stop him! Critics doubted his ability and even laughed at his work. It wasn’t until the end of his life that the public changed its mind about his paintings and now, 100 years later, he’s recognized as an artistic genius and his masterpieces hang in museums around the world! To introduce this lesson to my third-graders, I began by showing them some of Henri Rousseau’s jungle scenes. It didn’t take long for them to discover that some of the animals were carefully camouflaged in his paintings, often found hiding behind the plants or trees. This posed a fun challenge for them to see how many animals they could identify in each work, obser ving all kinds of dif ferent species in the lush, green jungles! Monkeys, snakes, birds and tigers were a few of the wild animals spotted. Next, I read Michelle Markel’s wonderful book, The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau, to the class and we discovered that the former toll-collector taught himself how to paint without any formal training or lessons. The students also learned that, although Rousseau loved painting jungle scenes, he had never even been to one! All his inspiration came from illustrations in books and the botanical gardens and zoo in Paris where he would obser ve the plants and wild animals. Just like Rousseau, we would also be using visuals from books and handouts to inspire us with our jungle scene. The students used a tiger as the focal point in their composition, just as Rousseau did in his first jungle painting, Surprised! (also known as Tiger in a Tropical Storm). It appears on pages 24–25 of this month’s issue. They followed a guided drawing of a tiger on orange construction paper. I gave them a few shades of orange to choose from and they followed along step by step with pencil.

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This tiger’s sideways glance seems to say that it knows something we don’t.

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They used oil pastels to trace over their lines and add color, and then cut their tiger out. During the next class session, we began the jungle background. I gave the students a piece of lime green construction paper for their background and laid out green scraps of construction paper and tissue paper for them to pull from for the leaves. We looked at visuals of different tropical leaves and I showed them a variety of ways to fold and cut into the paper to create leaves. Using scrapbook scissors allowed for some fun ways to cut around the edges. Working from the background to foreground, the students glued their leaves down, overlapping each other

and filling up the paper. They used colored tissue paper to cut out tropical flowers for some pops of color, and then chose where to glue their tiger to their composition. Some wanted it front and center, others chose to have their tiger popping its head in from either side of the paper. Learning about Rousseau’s jungle scenes was not only a great art lesson, but also a life lesson about conquering the unimaginable, even when others doubt you. With a little perseverance and a lot of heart, Rousseau proved that anything is possible! n

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Chrissy Leishear teaches K–8 art at St. John the Baptist School in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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Visual Art SK8ers by Irv Osterer

he skateboard has become an integral part of teenage recreation. It is difficult to find a high school student who hasn’t given the device a tr y. Drive by any school setting during recess, lunch breaks or before and after school, and you will always see a number of students engaged in the sport. And, skateboard competitions are now watched by many dedicated fans, and venues such as the X Games have given the star performers some media cachet. Along with media exposure comes the need for the mainstream board manufacturers to take advantage of the skateboard canvas to advertise their products. Many of these designs have been successfully parlayed to lines of clothing that are all instantly recognized by skateboard enthusiasts.

IT WAS NOT HARD TO CONVINCE my 11th-grade graphic-design students to embrace an assignment that would see them design their own skateboards. They eagerly accepted the challenge. It was easy to direct students to the Internet, to seek out the best and the worst of contemporary skateboard design. A good starting point was the Andy Warhol series of skateboards, which employs graphics done by the Pop art king. Many rely of the repeat patterns of his most famous works. The class was then asked to consult Paulo Canabarro’s online skateboard design summary (abduzeedo. com/100-crazy-skateboard-designs). Abduzeedo is a blog created by Fabio Sasso in 2006 dedicated to contemporary graphic design and the sharing of resources with the design community. Caution: some of the designs are rather racy. Students were able to conclude from this site that the best skateboard design ideas featured bold colors and shapes that could be seen and identified from a distance. A NUMBER OF SKATEBOARD aficionados in the class assisted with the preparation of a template to facilitate the creation of our designs. One of the students brought in her board, which was carefully traced to establish a template shape, which was scanned and reduced to fit on an 8.5" x 18

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11" handout. In this way, all designs were directly proportional to the final product. Students were asked to take advantage of the horizontal or vertical axis for their designs and to supply at least two designs concentrating on the elements of pattern, shape and color rather than relying on typographic solutions. Each was encouraged to use their own personal drawing style rather than copy existing samples. Students could choose any combinations of traditional media—although they were cautioned against using too much water in their paint as the cover stock would buckle and make subsequent mounting difficult. j u n e 2 0 1 7 • 84 Y E A R S

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ENRICHMENT It is possible with a bit of Photoshop® magic, to creatively install some of the student artwork directly onto a skateboard in action. To do so requires some clever positioning of a person on a real board captured on a high resolution image. Using the “polygonal lasso tool,” the wheels can be carefully removed, and stored on a separate Photoshop layer. The artwork

is then simply cut, pasted and positioned with Photoshop’s “EDIT > transform” function over the existing skateboard. This tool will allow you to adjust size and proportion, so that the student work will fit comfortably in the space vacated by the real board. After this is done, one activates the layers with the wheel, flattens the image and the illusion is complete!

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THE STUDENT WORK was quite interesting. Some concen-

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES High-school students will ... • recognize the impact of popular culture on contemporary design. • recognize the contribution of graphic designers to successful branding campaigns. • create original skateboard designs using their own personal imagery.

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• Sketchbooks and pencils • 00 brushes for detailed

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trated on pure pattern, others were more illustrative, depicting characters trying to emerge from the skateboard canvas, and a few were very spiritual in nature. After sketches were approved, the designs were transferred to 130M Mayfair cover stock. For this project we employed smaller “wake” boards, which could easily fit on a 20" x 26" sheet when traced on the diagonal. Most students were able to easily enlarge their designs, but for those experiencing difficulty, an overhead transparency was created and projected to make things a bit easier. Students were asked to allow for their images to run outside the strict border about a quarter of an inch, all the way around. This would facilitate cutting out the designs, which, after completion, were mounted on 0.25-inch Foamcore board. The Foamcore gave each work the depth of real plywood construction, plus it is a material easily managed. Cutting it with a simple #11 X-ACTO® knife was time consuming, but not as problematic as it would have been on high-art illustration board. Some of the final artwork was entered into competition and three pieces were selected for display in the City of Ottawa’s juried “Young at Art Show,” The entire skateboard suite was received very favorably by students and staff and the Annual Merivale Art Show in June. n Irv Osterer is Department Head–Fine Arts and Technology, at Merivale High School in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and an Arts & Activities Contributing Editor. 19

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aron Draplin is a graphic designer who is originally from the Midwest, but currently uses Portland, Oregon, as his home base when he is not out barnstorming across the country in his big orange van, leading design workshops and lectures. His designs often have a bold use of shape, line and color, while the implied space these elements occupy is clean and economical. I came across Draplin’s work last year and was immediately drawn to how he works with his visual vocabulary in designs that reference traditional landscape subjects. I have since used it as inspiration for a couple second-grade art projects that I will share below. Most of his work is created digitally, but Draplin’s layering of shape and color lends itself so well to experiments with cut-paper collage and creating a sense of 3-D space in art through overlapping. LAST YEAR, MY SECOND-GRADERS looked at a skateboard

deck that Draplin did. When looking at that design, we noticed how clearly the space is split between foreground, middle and background. We also noticed that each part (the water, trees, mountains) had a dark and light layer, with the dark being in the front. This is a great, simple introduction to atmospheric perspective for your younger set. If Draplin’s style isn’t engaging enough (and it should be) when you inform your class they will be making skateboards, you have a pretty rad hook. To start, students got a light- and a dark-colored paper for each part of their skateboard landscape. They drew their landscape elements on one of those colors and then cut out both pieces at the same time. This saves time and emphasizes unity between the parts as well. As the layers are cut, students assemble them on a vertical sky color paper that serves as the skateboard deck. They start with the front and move their way back through the LEARNING OBJECTIVES Elementary students will … • experiment with collage techniques to create a landscape that demonstrates an understanding of overlapping. • identify symmetry in works of art as well as work they create themselves.

NATIONAL ART STANDARDS This project proved to be a simple introduction to atmospheric perspective for younger students.

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landscape space. Students need to tuck the layers in behind the ones that come before them, so that there is no sky showing between those layers. I encourage them to play with those pieces, sliding them up and down to see how much of that layer they want to see and how much they want to get overlapped by the preceding layer. When it comes to sun and clouds, students decide if the sun overlaps the clouds or the other way around. Students build their landscapes from front to back, but when gluing it all together, they go from the back to the front, so that they can attach paper firmly, while being able to overlap the layers correctly. When all the parts are glued, the large paper gets flipped over, a large cur ve is drawn along the top edge, the paper is looped like a raindrop, and that line is cut. With that, your students have their completed paper deck. In almost ever y class, you’ll have at least one student who wants to put his or her collage on the floor and ride their design.

We also used Draplin’s work to experiment with symmetry, as well as creating 3-D space.

DRAPLIN DÉJÀ VU I’ve also used Aaron Draplin’s work to

experiment with symmetry, as well as creating 3-D space. I shared a couple of logos he designed, one being for Sub Pop Records up in Seattle, and we noticed how one side of the design matched the other. The other design we looked at was mostly symmetrical, but we noticed that a couple small parts did not match up. With this collage lesson, before drawing out each landscape layer, students folded each of those papers to create a line of symmetry for each part. As they cut out their layers, students assembled those pieces on a larger sky sheet. Students create trees, either mountains or buildings, and sun and clouds. Again, they experiment with spacing. As students cut out their layers, they often end up with two usable pieces—the bottom part of the paper that they originally intended to use, and a top portion that they were going to discard. I encouraged them to look at both pieces and use the piece that would work better with their other layers. When all their landscape elements were cut, like the skateboard project, students glued their layers down, going from back to front. I’ve had students reflect on these projects by identifying space layers with a partner and also identifying www.ar tsandactivities.com

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whether their partner’s work demonstrates symmetry in all of their design or only in certain parts Each of them can be completed in a one-hour session, and both have proven to keep students engaged in creating works that are a bit dif ferent than your traditional landscape. Speaking of tradition, I shared both of these lessons with the man Draplin himself, and he was kind enough to share student work with his social media followers and he has agreed to do a Skype chat with some of my students. You certainly can’t do that with a dead guy! n A&A Contributing Editor, Don Masse, is a K–5 visual arts teacher at Zamorano Fine Arts Academy in San Diego, Calif. 21

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A&A Art Print: Respond and Connect Henri Rousseau. Surprised! (also known as Tiger in a Tropical Storm), 1891

“When I step into the hothouses and see the plants from exotic lands, it seems to me that I am in a dream" Henri Rousseau

MAIN VISUAL ART CONCEPTS: Line • Pattern • Movement • Color

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PAINTING TECHNIQUE: Rousseau came up with his own method of depicting rain. He painted thin, nearly transparent, light-colored diagonal lines across his entire canvas.

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BOTANY: According to Rebecca Alexander, the “Plant Answer Librarian” at the Elisabeth C. Miller Library, University of Washington Botanic Gardens, Rousseau’s plants in Surprised! are not specific enough to be identified or classified. She cites one exception: “the tassels over the back end of the tiger resemble Miscanthus, but there’s a lot of artistic license going on here! It’s tropical-ish.”

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BOTANY AND BIOLOGY: Rousseau never visited an actual jungle; he invented all his jungle scenes. He visited botanical gardens to look closely at growing plants and went to natural history museums to study stuffed animals. Rousseau also trained himself by copying art in Eugène Delacroix (French; 1798museums, and some 1863. Tiger and Snake, 1862. Oil say he derived his on canvas; 13" × 16.25". National tiger from works by Gallery of Art. Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection). Eugène Delacroix.

ECONOMY: When he was 24 years old, Rousseau began to work for the French government collecting tolls from farmers as they traveled to markets to sell their goods. He kept this job for 25 years, which allowed him time to paint. His friends nicknamed him “Le Douanier” (pro nounced Luh DWA-ñay), meaning “The Customs Inspector.”

IDENTIFYING STYLE – PRIMITIVISM AND ORIENTALISM: Rousseau is mostly thought of as a “primitive” (selftaught) painter. His tiger has some similarities to Chinese and Japanese painted and carved tigers. Interestingly, some of Eugène Delacroix’s works are also thought to be examples of “Orientalist” Western art.

LANGUAGE ARTS: Be sure to read the poem, “The Tyger,” by English poet William Blake (1757–1827).

EARTH SCIENCE: More Americans are killed each year by lightning than by tornadoes or hurricanes. The Merriam-Webster dictionary says lightning is “the flashing of light produced by a discharge of atmospheric electricity from one cloud to another or between a cloud and the earth.” Many scientists disagree about the exact causes of lightning, but they do agree that it stems from the differences in positively and negatively charged particles.

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POETIC EPITAPHS: French poet, Guillame Appolinaire (1880– 1918), wrote Rousseau’s epitaph. Not long before he died, Rousseau declared to his friend, “You will unfold your literary talent and avenge me for all the insults and abuse I have experienced.” Look online to see if Rousseau’s wish was fulfilled.

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Henri Rousseau (French; 1844â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1910). Surprised! (also known as Tiger in a Tropical Storm), 1881. Oil on canvas; 51" x 64". The National Gallery, London. Bought with the aid of a substantial donation from the Hon. Walter H. Annenberg, 1972. Public domain.

In the Studio: Create and Present Annotations and lessons on these pages by Tara Cady Sartorius, Program Director, Alabama Arts Alliance

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HOW WE ORGANIZE (AND RE-ORGANIZE) OURSELVES

SPRIGS, FRONDS AND SPRAYS Unlike Rousseau’s jungle, in the student work below, the plants may be identifiable: a Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) in the upper left, a red ginger (Alpinia purpurata) in the upper right, blue flowers in the lower left reminiscent of Vanda coerulea orchids, and perhaps Heliconia in the lower right. Carrie Keene’s students took a systematic approach to creating the appearance of dense plant growth as one might find in a jungle. Keene says, “The lesson focuses on the use of three distinct layers to create believable depth: background, middle ground, and foreground. Beginning with a still life of plants/yard clippings, the students were tasked with using color to indicate the depth of each layer.”

Jon Hazlett, who teaches art in two IB (International Baccalaureate®) schools in Oxford, Michigan, adapted his lesson from last year to this year. In the 2017 works, the middle-ground areas are more distinct. It seems Hazlett was better able to instruct his secondgraders in developing the illusion of depth. 2016

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Art by second-grade students at Clear Lake Elementary School in Oxford, Michigan.

Art by second-grade students at Daniel Axford Elementary School in Oxford, Michigan.

Hazlett says the philosophy of this lesson is that “understanding the interconnectedness of art to other subjects demonstrates a deeper understanding of our world, and that art is connected to all subjects.” Students synthesized their drawing techniques, compositional designs, and knowledge of subject matter (the rainforest) with concepts of depth, pattern, and balance. Prior to making their art, students viewed a science video that showed and explained the layers of a tropical rainforest, and they also saw presentation and participated in a discussion about Henri Rousseau’s artwork. Says Hazlett, “Since I taught the lesson last year, I have been able to incorporate the use of iPads for researching and drawing rainforest animals. The student work this year demonstrates a better understanding of the rainforests and how to draw the animals.” Hazlett has his own blog at oxfordarts.weebly.com. NATIONAL ART STANDARDS: Grades K–6 CREATE: Brainstorm collaboratively multiple approaches to an art or design problem. RESPOND: Perceive and describe aesthetic characteristics of one’s natural world and constructed environments.

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Artwork by students at Orange Park High School in Orange Park, Florida.

Layer 1 - Background: Colors are muted, or tints of cool colors. Layer 2 - Middle ground: Colors are analogous, sometimes with

the addition of more cool colors. Students added purple or blue to their green leaves, causing them to appear to go back in space. Layer 3 - Foreground: Colors are bright and saturated. This is the only layer that gets warm colors, such as yellow and white, which cause some of the plants to appear reflective or translucent. NATIONAL ART STANDARDS: Grades 7–12 CREATE: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

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An Environmental Art Collage Project Caitlin, age 16.

Isabelle, age 7.

by Constance Del Nero

Trishia, adult.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES Students will ... • think and experiment through trial and error. • develop ideas and knowledge about/empathy for the environment. • collaborate and share with classmates.

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CREATING: Generating and conceptualizing artistic ideas and work. CREATING: Organizing and developing artistic ideas and work. RESPONDING: Perceiving and analyzing artistic work. CONNECTING: Synthesizing and relating knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

ot junk mail? Yeah, we all do! Ads for pizza and burgers, catalogs for gadgets and clothes ... Most junk mail gets thrown out, though some of it gets recycled. Why not turn it into eye-catching art instead? As Director of ArtReach at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Md., I team up with local environmental nonprofits to teach a project called “Junk- Mail Fish.” Over the past five years, I have worked with over 1,300 school children. This past year, I also taught a family art workshop at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland. Kids and parents worked together. Working with families was wonderful: when children see their parents engaged with art-making, they realize that art is important. JUNK-MAIL FISH uses old manila folders and colorful bits of junk mail in a combination drawing/collage project. The project calls attention to important environmental issues, www.ar tsandactivities.com

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• Old manila folders, two per participant • Pencils • Magazines and catalogs • Envelopes to hold paper scraps

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and also develops key visual arts skills in children, such as hand-eye coordination, color interaction, and design. Participants may work independently or collaborate with others. The lesson begins with viewing diagrams and photographs of fish as I provide a brief explanation of fish anatomy. I then pass out manila folder halves, on which the fish will be drawn. Since it’s important for the fish to fill up most of the paper, I demo the drawing portion of the project and have students follow along with me. I keep directions to a minimum, though, because I want people to feel free to experiment. I let them know that there are thousands of different species of fish in the world (more than 350 in the Chesapeake Bay alone!) of all sizes and shapes, so their fish will look just fine. If more direction is needed, an illustrated instruction sheet is available on A&A Online (artsandactivities.com/editorial/aa-online). continued on next page 27

ONCE THE LINE DRAWINGS OF THE FISH have been completed, it’s time to

cut them out. (Younger children may need adult help for some of the trickier areas.) Once the fish are cut out, it’s up to participants which direction they will be swimming: fish can be collaged on either side and it is fun to have fish swimming in different directions. Glue sticks are best for attaching bits of magazine, catalog or other junk mail to the fish. Paper can be cut, torn into pieces, or both. You might consider having students prepare their paper pieces beforehand so they have a stash to work with. Work in sections rather than gluing bits of paper here and there. This ensures that the entire fish is covered and that there are no bare spots. Glue pieces so that they stick out past the borders of the fish. Once all the paper is attached, the fish is turned over for easy viewing and trimmed back to its original shape. Everyone has fun choosing themes for their fish. I have seen students make cookie fish, sports fish, hair fish, highfashion fish, holiday fish, word fish, fastfood fish, color-themed fish and more. The other half of the manila folder

becomes the background. Students can collage or paint the background in various shades of blue. At the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, they used brayers to roll out acr ylic colors to create an aquatic feel. After the paint dried, they glued their fish onto the background. WHEN DONE IN A SCHOOL SETTING,

Junk-Mail Fish artworks can be joined together to form a giant ocean “quilt.” Students can participate in deciding how to group the fish. Pictures can be taped together on the back and the quilt edged with strips of colored paper. [Note that in a school setting, students may need two or three class periods to complete the project.] It’s great for everyone to learn about the environment (including easy and valuable steps to take to safeguard it), learn about animal anatomy, and then create a work of art. Junk-Mail Fish quilts are dazzling and proof that a whole is more than a sum of its parts. True in nature and true in art! n Constance Del Nero is Director of ArtReach and Community Programs at Academy Art Museum in Easton, Md.

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Paragon introduces a new touch screen controller

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The Sentinel is optional on most digital Paragon kilns. The Sentinel can replace the Sentry 12-key controller in minutes on existing Paragon kilns. Continuous voltage and amperage readout

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media reviews

THE NATURE OF ART: Elementary Art Projects Inspired by Nature, by Craig Hinshaw. Poodles Press, $24.95. The author of this book is a man to emulate. A 25-year veteran of the art classroom, Craig Hinshaw believes in teaching kids to really look, touch, feel, and react. He’s not above looking quite silly to grab their attention! The Nature of Art would be a blessing to both new and experienced teachers, especially those who care about the natural world and those who wish to team up and work with others. Hinshaw includes quotes by students and photos of their work. The many pictures aren’t black and white, either, but lovely color photographs throughout. The first portion chronicles the many ways the author brought nature to “his” school in Michigan. Studentcreated stepping-stones, a fishpond, and an art gallery to enhance a nature

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center/garden built from scratch. They embellished the area further with multicultural projects like clay sun faces and chalk sundials. See Hinshaw’s first book, Clay Connections, for a sundial lesson using ceramic instead. In the second part of the book, Hinshaw collaborates with another, birdloving teacher. Clay birds, feeders, birdbaths and birdhouses are detailed, as well as several butterfly activities. Each art project features “procedures” (the steps), a list of materials, and notes or suggestions. Of course, not all the art materials are from nature nor returned to nature, although Hinshaw does address the concepts time and again. Imagine how much fun his students have while building a giant bird’s nest—one it can sit in! His second softcover was Animals, Houses & People; all three are available at www.craighinshaw.com/buybook.cfm. He includes nine tips for writing and getting grants, both of with which he’s very familiar. He’s planning a Learning Tree improvement to the nature center/art garden!–P.G.

THE BIG BOOK OF 100 LITTLE ACTIVITIES, by Laura Minter and Tia Williams, GMC Publications LTD, $19.95. This book is clearly made for preschool educators, parents, grandparents, and childcare workers. As such, it will see plenty of use; our paperback edition already shows slight wear! The authors—both moms and bloggers—separated the crafty deeds into eight portions. For instance, you’ll find messy ones, outdoorsy activities, and dress-up fun. A few projects necessitate special materials, although many ideas promote recycling. Many require close adult supervision or facilitation, which for the authors denotes precious time with little ones. Scores of the ideas have scientific interest, especially those for nature lovers. Take the potato porcupine, for example. Which brings us to another point: The “porcupine” may take a week or so to sprout, and some of the other endeavors also require a little patience. But numerous crafts in the book offer instant gratification. Others can be adapted to allow for more independence and creativity. The lion mask, the Humpty Dumpty egg, and the felt owl toy come to mind for modification. Minter and Williams include recipes to make your own puffy paint, giant bubbles, fluid chalk paint and more. Abundant facts, tips, and alternatives are enclosed within brightly colored shapes throughout. Get the book if you don’t have time for exhaustive searches for ideas online.–P.G. n

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Aardvark Clay & Supplies 714-541-4157 www.aardvarkclay.com CE SP Academy of Art University 800-544-2787 www.academyart.edu SH ACMI www.acmiart.org SH Activa Products, Inc. 877-970-0832 www.activaproducts.com CE HC SH SP Aftosa 800-231-0397 www.aftosa.com CE DE Alfred University 607-871-2412 www.alfred.edu SH

CODES AB Airbrush* AD Adhesives/Fixatives AV Audio Visual/DVDs/Videos BR Brushes CA Calligraphy* CE Ceramics* CO Computers*/Software CT Cutting Instruments CY Crayons DE Display/Exhibit Fixtures DG Drawing* DR Drafting* DS Dispensers/Containers DY Dye/Batik* EP Easels/Palettes FD Fundraising* FI Fabrics/Fibers FN Furniture/Equipment FR Frames/Mats* GR Graphic* HC Hobby/Craft* JM Jewelry/Metal* LO Looms/Weaving* LT Leathercraft* PB Publishers/Art Reproductions PC Paper/Canvas PH Photography* PR Printmaking* PS Pastels PT Paints/Pigments RS Rubber Stamps* SA Safety Equipment* SG Stained Glass* SH Schools/Workshops SP Sculpture* *Equipment and supplies

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AMACO/Brent 800-374-1600 www.amaco.com BR CE CT FN HC SA SH SP

Art New England Workshops 617-250-1040 www.artnewengland.com SH

American Academy of Equine Art 859-281-6031 www.aaea.net SH

The Art of Education www.theartofed.com SH

American Ceramic Supply Co. 866-535-2651 www.americanceramics.com AB AD BR CE CT HC JM PT RS SA SG SH SP AMEP-Crystal Productions 800-289-9299 www.amep.com AV DE PB American Educational Products LLC 800-289-9299 www.amep.com BR CE CY DE DG DR EP PC PR PT Amon Carter Museum 817-989-5067 www.cartermuseum.org DE

Artograph, Inc. 888-975-9555 www.artograph.com AV DG DR FD FN HC JM PH Artrage www.artrage.com GR Arts Attack 888-760-ARTS www.artsattack.com AV Art Shop Therapy 612-234-5013 www.artshoptherapy.com AV PB Artsonia 800-869-9974 www.artsonia.com AV DE SH

Badge-A-Minit Ltd. 800-223-4103 www.badgeaminit.com HC

Bailey Ceramic Supply 800-431-6067 www.baileypottery.com AB AV BR CE FN HC SA SP Baltimore Clayworks 410-578-1919 www.baltimoreclayworks.org CE SH Bamboo Tools 604-723-2900 www.bambootools.com BR CE CT BigCeramicStore.com 888-513-5303 www.bigceramicstore.com AB BR CE HC JM PR RS SP Birdcage Books 650-424-1701 www.birdcagebooks.com PB

Ampersand Art Supply 800-822-1939 www.ampersandart.com CE DG FI FN HC JM LO PH PR SG SH SP

Art Supplies Wholesale 800-462-2420 www.allartsupplies.com BR CY DG EP FR PC PR PS PT

Armada Art, Inc. 800-435-0601 www.armadaart.com BR CT HC

Art Teacher on the Net 858-453-2278 www.artmuseums.com DE DG HC PB PH PS PT SH

Armory Art Center 561-832-1776 www.armoryart.org CE DG JM SP

Art to Remember 800-895-8777 www.arttoremember.com FD HC

Blick Art Materials 800-447-8192 www.dickblick.com AB AD AV BR CA CE CO CT CY DE DG DR DS DY EP FD FI FN FR GR HC JM LO LT PC PH PR PS PT RS SA SG SP

Arnold Grummer’s Paper Making 800-453-1485 www.arnoldgrummer.com HC RS

Art Trek 415-868-9558 www.arttreks.com SH

Bluebird Mfg., Inc. 970-484-3243 www.bluebird-mfg.com CE FN HC SP

ArtWare By You 973-509-7736 www.artwareforgood.com FD

Boston Univ. School of Visual Arts 866-347-6876 www.bu.edu/cfa/visual-arts/ SH

Arrowmont Sch. of Arts/Crafts 865-436-5860 www.arrowmont.org SH Art Boards 800-546-7985 www.art-boards.com EP FN PR Art Image Publications 800-361-2598 www.artimagepublications.com PB Art Institute of Southern Cal. 949-376-6000 www.artinstitutes.edu SH

Aves Studio 800-261-AVES www.avesstudio.com CE HC SP A.W.T. World Trade, Inc. 773-777-7100 www.awt-gpi.com FN Axner Pottery Supply 800-843-7057 www.axner.com AB AV CE FD FN HC JM PT SH SP

Bisque Imports 888-568-5991 www.bisqueimports.com CE SH SP

Bracker’s Good Earth Clays, Inc. 888-822-1982 www.brackers.com CE DS HC Brent Pottery Equipment 800-374-1600 www.brentwheels.com CE FN Bright Ring Publishing Inc. 800-480-4278 www.brightring.com PB

Artisan 800-331-6375 www.artisan-santafe.com BR EP FN FR HC PC PS PT SH

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Clay Mat 559-360-9770 www.claymat.com CE

Createx Colors 800-243-2712 www.createxcolors.com AB HC PT

Canson Inc. 800-628-9283 www.canson.com PC

Clay Planet 800-443-CLAY www.clay-planet.com CE FN PT SP

Creative Paperclay Co., Inc. 805-484-6648 www.paperclay.com CE SP

Carbondale Clay Center 970-963-2529 www.carbondaleclay.org CE SH

Clay Stamps from Socwell LLC 608-295-1415 www.4clay.com CE JM RS

Cress Mfg. Co. 800-423-4584 www.cressmfg.com CE SP

Faber-Castell USA 800-642-2288 www.faber-castellusa.com CY DG HC PS

Carolina Clay Connection 704-376-7221 www.carolinaclay.com CE HC SH

Clay Times 800-356-2529 www.claytimes.com PB

Crizmac Art & Cultural Ed. Matls. 520-323-8555 www.crizmac.com FI PB SH

Fasteners4schools.com 800-876-9922 www.fasteners4schools.com AD CT HC

Ceramic Supply Chicago 847-425-1900 www.ceramicsupplychicago.com BR CE

Clear Bags 916-933-4700 www.clearbags.com DS

Chavant, Inc. 732-751-0003 www.chavant.com SP

ColArt Americas, Inc. 800-445-4278 www.colart.com AD BR CA CY DG EP HC PC PS PT

Daler-Rowney, USA 609-655-5252 www.daler-rowney.com BR DG EP FN GR HC PC PR PS PT SH

Fiskars 866-348-5661 www.fiskars.com CT HC

Chesapeake Ceramics LLC 800-962-9655 www.ceramicschoolsupply.com CE

The Color Wheel Co. 541-929-7526 www.colorwheelco.com AV HC PT

D’Ambruoso Studios 203-758-9660 www.dambruosostudios.com SH

Florida Clay Art Co. 407-330-1116 www.flclay.com AB CE HC RS SA SH SP

Chicago Canvas & Supply 773-478-5700 www.chicagocanvas.com DY FI

Columbus College of Art & Design www.ccad.edu SH

Debcor, Inc. 708-333-2191 CE FN

FM Brush Co. 718-821-5939 www.fmbrush.com BR

Chroma Inc. 800-257-8278 www.chromaonline.com PT

The Compleat Sculptor, Inc. 800-972-8578 www.sculpt.com AD CE DY HC JM SH SP

Concordia Univ. 888-628-9472 www.cuw.edu SH Conrad Machine Co. 231-893-7455 www.conradmachine.com FN GR PR Continental Clay Co. 800-432-CLAY www.continentalclay.com AB AD BR CE DS FN HC JM PC PT RS SA SH SP Copic Markers www.copicmarker.com AB DG DR Corcoran Coll. Art & Design 202-639-1783 www.corcoran.gwu.edu SH Core Learning Inc. 800-399-0695 www.corelearningonline.com CO GR PB

Evenheat Kiln 989-856-2281 www.evenheat-kiln.com CE SP

Faust Ink, Inc. 908-276-6555 www.faustink.com PR PT

Delphi 888-281-5780 www.delphiglass.com/teach AD HC JM SG SH

The Folding Art Horse 909-596-2180 www.thefoldingarthorse.com FN

Discount School Supply 831-333-2549 www.discountschoolsupply.com AD BR CY DG EP FN HC PC PT SH

Frame Fit Co. 800-523-3693 www.framefit.com FR

Diversified Woodcrafts 877-348-9663 www.diversifiedwoodcrafts.com FN

F & W North Light Book Club 800-448-0915 www.fwmedia.com PB

Dixon Ticonderoga Co./Prang www.prang.com CY DG PS PT

Dry Creek Pottery 817-578-1563 www.drycreekpottery.com CE HC SH

Geil Kilns 714-847-6135 www.kilns.com CE SH

Gelli Arts 800-580-4198 www.gelliarts.com HC PR

Earth Guild 800-327-8448 www.earthguild.com AD BR CA CT DY FI HC LO LT PT SA SP

General Pencil Co. 800-537-0734 www.generalpencil.com CY DG DR HC PS

Cornell Studio 937-454-0357 www.cornellstudiosupply.com CE

Ed Hoy’s International 800-323-5668 www.edhoy.com AD BR CE CT DE HC JM PT SA SG SH SP

Coyote Creek Productions 760-731-3184 www.coycreek.com AV

Elmer’s Products, Inc. 888-435-6377 www.elmers.com AD HC

Getty Trust Publications 800-223-3431 www.getty.edu PB SH

Crayola 800-272-9652 www.crayola.com CY DG HC PT SP

Euclid’s Elements 800-296-5456 www.euclids.com CE FN

Giffin Tec Inc. 800-445-2997 www.giffingrip.com CE

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Getting To Know, Inc. 312-642-5526 www.gettingtoknow.com AV PB

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Glue Dots Int’l.(GDI) 888-688-7131 www.gluedots.com AD HC

KQED Public Television 415-553-2298 www.kqed.org SH

Matcutter.com 800-358-6540 www.matcutter.com FR

Gold’s Artworks 800-356-2306 www.goldsartworks.20m.com PC

iLoveToCreate, Duncan Ent. Co. 800-438-6226 www.ilovetocreate.com AD BR CE DY HC JM PC PT SH

Krueger Pottery, Inc. 800-358-0180 www.kruegerpottery.com AD BR CE FN SH

Mayco Colors 614-876-1171 www.maycocolors.com BR CE HC PT SH

Golden Artist Colors 800-959-6543 www.goldenpaints.com CY PT

Imagination Int’l Inc. www.iii.global/iii-academy SH

Krylon Products Group 216-515-7693 www.krylon.com HC PT

Midlantic Clay 856-933-0022 www.midlanticclay.com CE

Grafix 800-447-2349 www.grafixarts.com AD DG DR GR HC Graphic Chemical & Ink 800-465-7382 www.graphicchemical.com PR Graphic Display Systems 800-848-3020 www.graphicdisplaysystems.com DE Graphic Products Corp. 847-836-9600 www.gpcpapers.com PC Graphik Dimensions Ltd. 800-221-0262 www.pictureframes.com FR

Incredible Art Department www.incredibleart.org PB Inovart Inc. 800-292-7622 www.inovart.net CA CT DG EP FR HC LO PR RS Interlochen Center For Arts 800-681-5912 www.interlochen.org SH

J Jack Richeson & Co, Inc. 800-233-2404 www.richesonart.com AV BR DG DS EP FN HC PC PR PS PT SH SP

Laguna College of Art & Design 949-376-6000 www.lcad.edu SH

Minn. Coll. Art/Des. Rm M105 612-874-3765 www.mcad.edu SH

Laguna Clay Co. 800-452-4862 www.lagunaclay.com AB AD AV BR CE FN HC PT SA SP

Minnesota Clay USA 952-884-9101 www.mnclay.com AB BR CE SA SP

Leaning Post Productions 845-496-4709 www.leaningpost.com AV CO PB

MKM Pottery Tools 920-830-6860 www.mkmpotterytools.com CY FN HC SP

Lightfoot Ltd, Inc 951-693-5165 www.lightfootltd.com AV CO DG EP FN PC SA SH

Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth 817-738-9215 www.themodern.org SH

Great Lakes Clay 800-258-8796 www.greatclay.com AB AD AV BR CE FN HC SA SH SP

Jacquard Products 800-442-0455 www.jacquardproducts.com AB AD BR DG DS DY FI HC JM LT PH PR PT RS SG SH SP

Groovy Tools LLC 502-859-5070 www.groovy-tools.com CE CT HC SH SP

Jiffy Mixer 800-560-2903 www.jiffymixer.com CE PT

Liquitex Artist Materials 888-422-7954 www.liquitex.com AB AD GR HC PT SP

J&J Display 800-347-2008 www.jjdisplay.com AD DE

L & L Kiln Mfg., Inc. 800-750-8350 www.hotkilns.com CE HC JM SG

Handy Art 800-236-6873 www.handyart.com AD HC PR PT

Jones Publishing, Inc. 800-331-0038 www.jonespublishing.com CE HC PB

Loew-Cornell, Inc. 201-836-7070 www.loew-cornell.com BR CE PT

Harrisville Designs/Friendly Loom 800-338-9415 www.harrisville.com FI HC LO

JourneyEd 800-874-9001 www.journeyed.com CO DR GR

Hash, Inc. 360-750-0042 www.hash.com CO DG Haystack Mountain School of Crafts 207-348-2306 www.haystack-mtn.org SH Hemlocks Studio 828-885-2831 www.hemlocks.com SH

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Liqui-Mark Corp. 800-486-9005 www.liquimark.com DG HC

Madison Art Shop 732-961-2211 www.madisonartshop.com AB DG DR EP FR HC PC PR PT SP

Kids Can Press 800-265-0885 www.kidscanpress.com DG PB PR PT SP

Makit Products Inc. 972-709-1579 www.makit.com FD HC PC PH

KidsKards 888-543-7527 www.kidskards.com FD

Martin/F. Weber 215-677-5600 www.weberart.com AV BR DG EP PB PC PS PT SH

Klopfenstein Art Equipment 866-899-1899 www.klopfensteinart.com FN

Maryland Inst. College of Art 410-225-2300 www.mica.edu SH

KopyKake Ent. 800-999-5253 www.kopykake.com AB GR

Marywood University 570-348-6207 www.marywood.edu SH

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Midwest Products 800-348-3497 www.midwestproducts.com AD CT HC SH

Molly Hawkins’ House 888-446-6559 www.mollyhawkins.com AD BR CA CT CY DG DR DS EP GR HC JM PC PR PS PT SP Muddy Elbows 316-281-9132 www.soldnerequipment.com CE SP

Nantucket Island School 508-228-9248 www.nisda.org SH Nasco Arts & Crafts 800-558-9595 www.enasco.com AB AD CE DE DG DS EP FN PC PH PR PT SA SP National Artcraft Co. 888-937-2723 www.nationalartcraft.com AB AD BR CE DE DG DS EP HC PC PS PT National Art Education Assoc. 703-860-8000 www.arteducators.org PB New Century Arts 206-284-7805 www.paperclayart.com CE SP New Mexico Clay 800-781-2529 www.nmclay.com BR CE JM SP

New York University 800-771-4698 www.nyu.edu SH

Original Works 800-421-0020 www.originalworks.com FD

North Star Equipment 800-231-7896 www.northstarequipment.com CE FN

Orton Ceramic Foundation 614-895-2663 www.ortonceramic.com CE FN PB SA SH

Ohio Ceramic Supply, Inc. 800-899-4627 www.ohioceramic.com CE Ohio State University, Art Dept. 614-292-7183 www.art.osu.edu SH Olsen Kiln Kits 760-349-3291 www.olsenkilns.com CE SP Olympic Kilns 800-241-4400 www.greatkilns.com CE HC JM SP Oregon College of Art & Craft 503-297-5544 www.ocac.edu PR SH The Original Hi Roller 828-308-2585 www.originalhiroller.com CE

Otis Coll. Art/Des. Cont. Ed/ Summer 310-665-6850 www.otis.edu SH

Pacon Corporation 800-333-2545 www.pacon.com DG FR PC

Paragon Industries, L.P. 972-288-7557 www.paragonweb.com CE SG PCF Studios, Inc. 585-229-2976 www.pcfstudios.com AV CE SH SP Peninsula Art School 920-868-3455 www.peninsulaschoolofart.org SH The Pennsylvania State University 814-865-6570 www.worldcampus.psu.edu SH Pentel of America 800-262-1127 www.pentel.com DG DR Perfectone Mold Co. 800-828-2634 www.perfectonemolds.com HC SP Peter Pugger Mfg. 707-463-1333 www.peterpugger.com CE FN Peters Valley Craft Center 973-948-5200 www.petersvalley.org SH Phelps Publishing 216-752-4938 www.phelpspublishing.com DG HC PB Picasso People 716-684-0244 www.picassopeople.com SH PMC Connection 866-762-2529 www.pmcconnection.com BR HC JM Polyform Products 847-427-0020 www.sculpey.com CE HC SP

Pottery Making Illustrated 614-794-5890 www.ceramicartsdaily.org CE PB

Sanford Corp. 800-323-0749 www.newellrubbermaid.com BR CA CY DG DR PS PT

Sargent Art Inc. 800-424-3596 www.sargentart.com AB AD BR CE CY DG DS DY EP HC JM PC PS PT SG SP

Quarry Books www.quarrybooks.com PB

Savannah College of Art & Design 912-525-5000 www.scad.edu SH

Quarto Publishing www.quartoknows.com PB

School of the Art Inst. of Chicago 312-899-5100 www.artic.edu SH

Quinlan Visual Arts Center 770-536-2575 www.quinlanartscenter.org DE SH

Sax/School Specialty 888-388-3224 www.saxarts.com AB AD AV BR CA CE CT CY DE DG DR DS DY EP FD FI FN FR HC JM LO LT PC PH PR PS PT RS SG SH SP

Renaissance Graphic Arts, Inc. 888-833-3398 www.printmaking-materials.com PC PR PT

Scottsdale Artists’ School 800-333-5707 www.scottsdaleartschool.org SH

Rhode Island School of Design 401-454-6201 www.risd.edu SH

Scratch-Art Co., Inc. 203-762-4500 www.melissaanddoug.com CY DG HC PC PR

Ringling College/Art & Design 941-955-8866 www.ringling.edu SH

Segmation 858-206-3289 www.segmation.com DG HC SH

Rockland Colloid 503-655-4152 www.rockaloid.com GR HC PH PR

Sheffield Pottery 888-774-2529 www.sheffield-pottery.com BR CE SA

Rock Paint Distr./Handy Art 800-236-6873 www.handyart.com AD BR DS PR PT

Shimpo Ceramics 800-237-7079 www.shimpoceramics.com CE HC SH

Rocky Mtn. College of Art & Design 303-753-6046 www.rmcad.edu SH Royal & Langnickel Brush Mfg. 219-660-4170 www.royalbrush.com BR CE EP HC PS PT Royalwood Ltd. 800-526-1630 www.royalwoodltd.com FI HC LO

Silver Brush, Ltd 609-443-4900 www.silverbrush.com BR Silvergraphics Studio 866-366-5700 www.silvergraphics.com FD GR

Roylco 800-362-8656 www.roylco.com HC

Skidmore College Summer 6 518-580-5052 www.skidmore.edu SH

Runyan Pottery Supply, Inc. 810-687-4500 www.runyanpotterysupply.com AB AD BR CE CT DS FN HC RS SA SH SP

Skutt Ceramic Products 503-774-6000 www.skutt.com CE FN JM SA SG SP

Smith-Sharpe Fire Brick Supply 612-331-1345 www.kilnshelf.com CE

Sakura of America 800-776-6257 www.sakuraofamerica.com DG DR GR PS SH

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Sierra Nevada College 775-831-7799 www.sierranevada.edu/workshops SH

Smooth-On, Inc. 800-762-0744 www.smooth-on.com CE HC SP

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Socwell LLC www.4clay.com CE Spectrum Glazes, Inc. 800-970-1970 www.spectrumglazes.com CE PT Speedball Art Products 800-898-7224 www.speedballart.com CA DG PC PR PT RS Square 1 Art 888-332-3294 www.square1art.com FD SRA/McGraw-Hill 972-224-1111 www.mheonline.com PB Staedtler-Mars, Limited 800-776-5544 www.staedtler.ca DG DR GR HC PS Standard Ceramic Supply 412-276-6333 www.standardceramic.com CE Strathmore Artist Papers 800-353-0375 www.strathmoreartist.com PC Studio Sales Pottery 585-226-3030 www.studiosalespottery.com CE HC SUNY New Paltz www.newpaltz.edu SH

Tandy Leather Factory 817-872-3200 www.tandyleatherfactory.com HC LT Taos Art School 575-758-0350 www.taosartschool.org SH Tara Materials 800-241-8129 www.taramaterials.com BR FR PC PH PT Teachers College Columbia Univ. 212-278-3270 www.tc.columbia.edu SH Teachers, Art Center College 626-396-2319 www.artcenter.edu/teachers SH Testors Corp. www.testors.com AB BR PT Texas Pottery 800-639-5456 www.texaspottery.com BR CE HC SH SP

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Traveling Exhibits 248-340-7210 www.teachersdiscovery.com DE Triarco Arts & Crafts, Inc. 800-328-3360 www.etriarco.com AB AD AV BR CA CE CT CY DE DG DS DY EP FN FR GR HC JM LO LT PC PH PR PS PT SG SP Trinity Ceramic Supply 214-631-0540 www.trinityceramic.com CE Truro Center for the Arts 508-349-7511 www.castlehill.org SH Tucker’s Pottery Supplies 800-304-6185 www.tuckerspottery.com BR CE CT FN SP Tulsa Stained Glass 918-664-8604 www.tulsastainedglass.com SG SH

U Union Rubber Co. 800-334-8219 www.best-testproducts.com AD United Art and Education 800-322-3247 www.unitednow.com AB AD BR CA CE CT CY DG DR DS EP FI FN HC JM LO PC PR PS PT SG SP

Wacom Technology Corp. 360-896-9833 www.wacom.com CO DG HC PH PT The Wallace Foundation www.wallacefoundation.org SH Watson Guptill Publications 800-278-8477 www.watsonguptill.com PB Welsh Products, Inc. 800-745-3255 www.welshproducts.com CO FD GR PR Western Michigan University 269-387-2436 www.wmich.edu/art SH Whittemore-Durgin Glass 800-262-1790 www.whittemoredurgin.com HC SG Wikkistix 800-869-4554 www.wikkistix.com HC SP Winsor & Newton 800-445-4278 www.winsornewton.com BR CA CY EP HC PC PS PT Witzend Workshop, LLC 203-393-2397 www.twisteezwire.com CY DY FI HC JM SP

University of the Arts 215-717-6000 www.uarts.edu SH

Women’s Studio Workshop 845-658-9133 www.wsworkshop.org FI SH

U.S. Artquest, Inc. 517-522-6225 www.usartquest.com AD BR HC RS

Woodstock School of Art 845-679-2388 www.woodstockschoolofart.org SH

Utrecht Mfg. Corp. 800-223-9132 www.utrecht.com AD BR CT DG DR DY EP FN FR GR PC PR PS PT SP

Wyland Foundation www.wylandfoundation.org DE

Vent-A-Kiln Corp. 716-876-2023 www.ventakiln.com CE SA

Video Learning Library 541-479-7140 www.art-video.com AV Visual Manna 573-729-2100 www.visualmanna.com DG GR PB PT

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In every January and June issue, Arts & Activities magazine publishes a Volume Index. The Index lists, by category and author, the articles that ran during a particular five-issue volume. We recommend keeping all of A&A’s Volume Indexes on your computer, in a binder or in a file for reference when looking for articles dealing with a particular topic, medium, artist, art technique, and so on.

VOLUME 161, FEBRUARY–JUNE 2017 A&A ART PRINTS Church, Frederic Edwin, Aurora Borealis, Apr., p. 19 Harnett, William Michael, The Old Violin, May, p. 19 Klee, Paul, The Vase, Mar., p. 23 Palissy, Bernard, Platter, Feb., p. 19 Rousseau, Henri, Surprised!, June, p. 23 A&A STUDY PRINTS Chimú culture, Flask with Jaguar Image, Feb., p. 37 Delacroix, Eugène, Royal Tiger, June, p. 45 Gaudi, Antoni, Chimneys at Casa Batlló, May, p. 37 Jawlensky, Alexej von, Portrait of a Girl, Apr., p. 37 Odita, Odili Donald, Nomad, Mar., p. 45 ADVICE FOR ART TEACHERS Art is at the Core: Dorothea Lange, Apr., p. 10 Art is at the Core: Janet Fish, Feb., p. 10 Choice-Based Art: Artist Statements for Asses ment and Student Growth, May, p. 9 Choice-Based Art: Let The Student Be the Artist, Mar., p. 12 Stepping Stones: Books For Every Art-Teacher

Library, Mar., p. 10 Stepping Stones: Collaboration in the Art Class, May, p. 8 Stepping Stones: End-of-the-Year Project Solutions, June, p. 8 Stepping Stones: Surviving your Evaluation, Feb., p. 8 Stepping Stones: There’s a Paint Party in the Art Room!, Apr., p. 8 Tried & True Tips for Art Teachers: Clay All Around, Feb., p. 38 Tried & True Tips for Art Teachers: Springtime in the Art Room, Mar., p. 46 Tried & True Tips for Art Teachers: Start Painting!, Apr., p. 38 Tried & True Tips for Art Teachers: 3-D Art and Collaboration, May., p. 38 Tried & True Tips for Art Teachers: Wrap It All Up, June, p. 46 ALIVE AND KICKING Angling with Odili, Mar., p. 20 Big and Bold with Draplin, June, p. 20 ART APPRECIATION/ART HISTORY Art Print: Church, Frederic Edwin, Aurora Borealis, Apr., p. 19

Art Print: Harnett, William Michael, The Old Violin, May, p. 19 Art Print: Klee, Paul, The Vase, Mar., p. 23 Art Print: Palissy, Bernard, Platter, Feb., p.19 Art Print: Rousseau, Henri, Surprised!, June, p. 23 Study Print: Chimú culture, Flask with Jaguar Image, Feb., p. 37 Study Print: Delacroix, Eugène, Royal Tiger, June, p. 45 Study Print: Gaudi, Antoni, Chimneys at Casa Batlló, May, p. 37 Study Print: Jawlensky, Alexej von, Portrait of a Girl, Apr., p. 37 Study Print: Odita, Odili Donald, Nomad, Mar., p. 45 ART IS AT THE CORE Janet Fish, Feb., p. 10 Dorothea Lange, Apr., p. 10 CHOICE-BASED ART Artist Statements for Assessment and Student Growth, May, p. 9 Let the Student Be the Artist, Mar., p. 12

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CLAY: EARTHEN AND AIR-DRY Biomorphic Creations in Clay, Feb., p. 16 Clay Tips from the Gamble Studio: Image Transfer, Feb., p. 30 Clay Tips from the Gamble Studio: Image Transfer Part II, Apr., p. 30 Creative Collaboration: Pueblo Storytellers, Feb., p. 26 Creativity Exercises and Games in Clay, Feb., p. 28 First-Grade Portraits with Pendants, Mar., p. 34 Integrating the Curriculum: Dante’s Inferno: A Mixed-Media Dimensional Map, May, p. 28 Pennsylvania-Dutch Hex-Sign Bowls, Feb., p. 24 Pig Parade, Feb., p. 14

Where the Technical Meets the Creative, Lesson 9: Bike Studies, May, p. 11 ELEMENTARY (grades K-5) Airbrushes in the Elementary Art Room? Layered Landscapes, Apr., p. 24 Alive and Kicking: Angling with Odili, Mar., p. 20 Alive and Kicking: Big and Bold with Draplin, June. p. 20 Altered Books for K–2, June, p. 12 Animal Options: A Year in Review, June, p. 14 Community Connections: Found-Object Pillars, May, p. 16 Creative Collaboration: Pueblo Storytellers, Feb., p. 26

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS Community Connections: Found-Object Pillars, May, p. 16 Creativity Exercises and Games in Clay, Feb., p. 28 Integrating the Curriculum: Dante’s Inferno: A Mixed-Media Dimensional Map, May, p. 28 Pueblo Storytellers, Feb., p. 26 Toothpick Sculpture, May, p. 12

Creativity Exercises and Games in Clay, Feb., p. 28 Demonstrating Innovation through Lighted Sculpture, May, p. 26 First-Grade Portraits with Pendants, Mar., p. 34 Gettin’ Jazzy with Rizzi Birds, Apr., p. 14 It’s a Jungle Out There, June, p. 16 The Lawrence Tree: First-Graders Meet Georgia O’Keeffe, Apr., p. 28 Mississippi Coastal Creatures, Mar., p. 16 Old-School Inspiration, Mar., p. 28 INTEGRATING THE CURRICULUM Dante’s Inferno: A Mixed-Media Dimensional Map, May, p. 28 continued on next page

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS Found-Object Pillars, May, p. 16 Conceptual Art Provokes Critical Thinking, May, p. 23 COMPUTER/DIGITAL ART On the Art Career Track: Star Trek at 50, Mar., p. 36 DRAWING AND PAINTING Abstract Painting: Be Your Own Captain of Creativity, Mar., p. 16 Airbrushes in the Elementary Art Room? Layered Landscapes, Apr., p. 24 Alive and Kicking: Angling with Odili, Mar., p. 20 Creative Collaboration: Pueblo Storytellers, Feb., p. 26 Exploring the Work of Emily Carr, Mar., p. 32 First-Grade Portraits with Pendants, Mar., p. 34 Gettin’ Jazzy with Rizzi Birds, Apr., p. 14 The Lawrence Tree: First-Graders Meet Georgia O’Keeffe, Apr., p. 28 Mississippi Coastal Creatures, Mar., p. 16 Old-School Inspiration, Mar., p. 28 On the Art Career Track: Star Trek at 50, Mar., p. 36 Pastels Inspired by Janet, Mar., p. 18 Principles of Design Octahedrons, May, p. 14 The Spiral Staircase: An Adventure in Hard-Edge Painting, Apr., p. 26 Sweet Introduction to Drawing, Mar., p. 30 Where the Technical Meets the Creative, Lesson 7: Large-Scale Food Studies, Mar., p. 14 Where the Technical Meets the Creative, Lesson 8: PINS-piration Portraits, Apr., p. 12 www.ar tsandactivities.com

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MIDDLE AND SECONDARY (grades 6-12) Abstract Painting: Be Your Own Captain of Creativity, Mar., p. 16 Biomorphic Creations in Clay, Feb., p. 16 Conceptual Art Provokes Critical Thinking, May, p. 23 Creativity Exercises and Games in Clay, Feb., p. 28 Demonstrating Innovation through Lighted Sculpture, May, p. 26 Exploring the Work of Emily Carr, Mar., p. 32 Integrating the Curriculum: Dante’s Inferno: A Mixed-Media Dimensional Map, May, p. 28 On the Art Career Track: Star Trek at 50, Mar., p. 36 Pastels Inspired by Janet, Mar., p. 18 Pennsylvania-Dutch Hex-Sign Bowls, Feb., p. 24 Pig Parade, Feb., p. 14 Principles of Design Octahedrons, May, p. 14 The Spiral Staircase: An Adventure in Hard Edge Painting, Apr., p. 26 Sweet Introduction to Drawing, Mar., p. 30 Toothpick Sculpture, May, p. 12 Where the Technical Meets the Creative, Lesson 6: Theme and Variation, Feb., p. 12 Where the Technical Meets the Creative, Lesson 7: Large-Scale Food Studies, Mar., p. 14 Where the Technical Meets the Creative, Lesson 8: PINS-piration Portraits, Apr., p. 12 Where the Technical Meets the Creative, Lesson 9: Bike Studies, May, p. 11 Where the Technical Meets the Creative, Lesson Lesson 10: Altered Books, June, p. 10 MIXED MEDIA Abstract Painting: Be Your Own Captain of Creativity, Mar., p. 16 Airbrushes in the Elementary Art Room? Layered Landscapes, Apr., p. 24 Alive and Kicking: Angling with Odili, Mar., p. 20 Biomorphic Creations in Clay, Feb., p. 16 Community Connections: Found-Object Pillars, May, p. 16 Conceptual Art Provokes Critical Thinking, May, p. 23 Creative Collaboration: Pueblo Storytellers, Feb., p. 26 Demonstrating Innovation through Lighted Sculpture, May, p. 26 First-Grade Portraits with Pendants, Mar., p. 34 Gettin’ Jazzy with Rizzi Birds, Apr., p. 14 Integrating the Curriculum: Dante’s Inferno: A Mixed-Media Dimensional Map, May, p. 28 Mississippi Coastal Creatures, Mar., p. 16 Old-School Inspiration, Mar., p. 28 Pig Parade, Feb., p. 14 Principles of Design Octahedrons, May, p. 14 Toothpick Sculpture, May, p. 12 Where the Technical Meets the Creative, Lesson 6: Theme and Variation, Feb., p. 12 Where the Technical Meets the Creative, Lesson 8: PINS-piration Portraits, Apr., p. 12 Where the Technical Meets the Creative, Lesson 10: Altered Books, June, p. 10 MULTICULTURAL Creative Collaboration: Pueblo Storytellers, Feb., p. 26 Pennsylvania-Dutch Hex-Sign Bowls, Feb., p. 24 44

ON THE ART CAREER TRACK Star Trek at 50, Mar., p. 36 Visual Art SK8ers, June, p. 18 PAPER/PAPIER-MACHE/COLLAGE Abstract Painting: Be Your Own Captain of Creativity, Mar., p. 16 Alive and Kicking: Big and Bold with Draplin, June, p. 20 Gettin’ Jazzy with Rizzi Birds, Apr., p. 14 Integrating the Curriculum: Dante’s Inferno: A Mixed-Media Dimensional Map, May, p. 28 It’s a Jungle Out There, June, p. 16 Junk Mail Fish: An Environmental Art Collage Project, June, p. 27 Old-School Inspiration, Mar., p. 28 Principles of Design Octahedrons, May, p. 14 READY-TO-USE RESOURCES Art Print: Church, Frederic Edwin, Aurora Borealis, Apr., p. 19 Art Print: Harnett, William Michael, The Old Violin, May, p. 19 Art Print: Klee, Paul, The Vase, Mar., p. 23 Art Print: Palissy, Bernard, Platter, Feb., p. 19 Art Print: Surprised!, Henri Rousseau, June, p. 23 Study Print: Chimú culture, Flask with Jaguar Image, Feb., p. 37 Study Print: Delacroix, Eugène, Royal Tiger, June, p. 45 Study Print: Gaudi, Antoni, Chimneys at Casa Batlló, May, p. 37 Study Print: Jawlensky, Alexej von, Portrait of a Girl, Apr., p. 37 Study Print: Odita, Odili Donald, Nomad, Mar., p. 45 RECYCLING/USING FOUND OBJECTS Airbrushes in the Elementary Art Room? Layered Landscapes, Apr., p. 24 Community Connections: Found-Object Pillars, May, p. 16 Demonstrating Innovation through Lighted Sculpture, May, p. 26 Integrating the Curriculum: Dante’s Inferno: A Mixed-Media Dimensional Map, May, p. 28 Junk Mail Fish: An Environmental Art Collage Project, June, p. 27 Pig Parade, Feb., p. 14 Toothpick Sculpture, May, p. 12 STEPPING STONES Books For Every Art-Teacher Library, Mar., p. 10 Collaboration in the Art Class, May, p. 8 End-of-the-Year Project Solutions, June, p. 8 Surviving your Evaluation, Feb., p. 8 There’s a Paint Party in the Art Room!, Apr., p. 8 THREE-DIMENSIONAL DESIGN Biomorphic Creations in Clay, Feb., p. 16 Community Connections: Found-Object Pillars, May, p. 16 Conceptual Art Provokes Critical Thinking, May, p. 23 Demonstrating Innovation through Lighted Sculpture, May, p. 26 First-Grade Portraits with Pendants, Mar., p. 34 Integrating the Curriculum: Dante’s Inferno: A Mixed-Media Dimensional Map, May, p. 28

Pennsylvania-Dutch Hex-Sign Bowls, Feb., p. 24 Pig Parade, Feb., p. 14 Pueblo Storytellers, Feb., p. 26 Principles of Design: Octahedrons, May, p. 14 Toothpick Sculpture, May, p. 12 TRIED & TRUE TIPS FOR ART TEACHERS Clay All Around, Feb., p. 38 Springtime in the Art Room, Mar., p. 46 Start Painting!, Apr., p. 38 3-D Art and Collaboration, May., p. 38 Wrap It All Up!, June, p. 46 YEARLONG ART II CURRICULUM SERIES Where the Technical Meets the Creative, Lesson 6: Theme and Variation, Feb., p. 12 Where the Technical Meets the Creative, Lesson 7: Large-Scale Food Studies, Mar., p. 14 Where the Technical Meets the Creative, Lesson 8: PINS-piration Portraits, Apr., p. 12 Where the Technical Meets the Creative, Lesson 9: Bike Studies, May, p. 11 Where the Technical Meets the Creative, Lesson Lesson 10: Altered Books, June, p. 10 YOUNG ARTISTS Gendron, Caroline, Apr., p. 23 Webb, Natalie, Mar., p. 27 AUTHORS Anderson, Amy, Apr. p. 24 Barmore, Karen, Feb., p. 26 Bovio, Debbi, Apr., p. 17 Brouwer, Josey M., Mar., p. 34; Apr. p. 14 Carpenter, Tara, Feb., p. 28 Catania, Nicholas, Feb., p. 26 Clark, Kelly, May, p. 28 Crumpecker, Cheryl, June, p. 14 Del Nero, Constance, June, p. 27 Dionne, Suzanne, Apr., p. 28 Gamble, Tracy P., Feb., p. 30, Apr., p. 30 Halsey, Cheryl, May, p. 16 Hamidou, Kristine W., May, p. 23 Hoffman, Anne, Mar., p. 28 Kohl, Gary, Mar., p. 32 Koonlaba, Amanda, Feb., p. 10; Apr., p. 10 Leishear, Chrissy, June, p. 16 Lubiner, Glenda, Feb., p. 38; Mar., p. 46; Apr., p. 38; May, p. 38; June, p. 46 Masse, Don, Mar., p. 20; June, p. 20 Meleones, Tara L., Mar., p. 16 O’Hanley, Heidi, Feb., p. 8; Mar., p. 10; Apr., p. 8; May, p. 8; June, p. 8 Osterer, Irv, Mar., p. 36; June, p. 18 Papanicolaou, Linda M., May, p. 9 Petersen, Hugh, Feb., p. 24 Pippin, Sandi, Apr., p. 26; May, p. 14 Sands, Ian, Mar., p. 12 Sartorius, Tara Cady, Feb., p. 19; Mar., p. 23; Apr., p. 19; May, p. 19; June, p. 23 Kimberly J.B. Smith, June, p. 12 Starr, Karen, Mar., p. 27 Stamm, Stephanie, Mar., p. 18 Tarman, Rebecca, Feb., p. 14; Mar., p. 30 Wallerstein, Brett, Feb., p. 16 Wennemar, Laurie, Apr., p. 23 West, Debi, Feb., p. 12; Mar., p. 14; Apr., p. 12; May, p. 10; June, p. 10 Wiese, Paula, May, p. 12 Wheatley, Rebecca, May, p. 26 n

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Thaw Collection. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Public Domain.

Eugène Delacroix (French; 1798–1863). Royal Tiger. Pen and brown ink and watercolor, over graphite; 7" x 10.56".

“Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.” — Damien Hirst

e did it! It’s June and we made it through another year of new faces, old faces, ups, downs, crayons, paint, glue, and clay. Now it’s time to wrap it all up, clean up your room, take inventory of what you need for next year, and close the door on another successful creative year. If you are like me, you have a lot of piles, bags, boxes, and crates of leftover scraps from the year that you don’t want to throw out … because you might use them sometime in the next 20 years! Well, the end-of-the-year cleanup is a

box then painted it all black. This project can be modified to middle or high school as well. (Be sure to check out our April 2017 issue. Laurie’s student, Caroline Gendron, is the featured Young Artist. Congratulations to you both!—Editor)

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ALIENS. Outer space and aliens are always exciting for our elementary students … hence, our imaginations go into full gear and off to outer space the kids go. The students first painted a very colorful outer space background. They then took scrap construction paper, folded it half, drew half their alien and cut it out. By doing this they were creating symmetrical ELEMENTARY

Wrap It All Up! good time to use up some of those scraps. Here are some ideas for ending the year on a high note.

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LOST AND FOUND. One thing sixth-

graders love, says art teacher Laurie Wennemar, from Haines Middle School in St. Charles, Illinois, is the foundobject project. She gives each table a box of assorted items that consists of scraps from the year: wire, wood, paper, broken toys, small pieces of tooling foil, plastic spoons, cups, cool things found at different thrift stores and garage sales, etc. Some kids get glue, others get tape, and some get string—so they must think about how to use materials in new ways. They can only use what is in the box, so as a team, they must collaborate. This project can also be tied into a Louise Nevelson project. I did one when I taught elementar y school. The students glued their objects in a shoe ATTENTION READERS If you would like to share some of your teaching tips, email them to: tipsforartteachers@yahoo.com

form. The students then added facial features, clothes and planets in the background keeping the whole picture symmetrical. This is a fun end-of-theyear project that uses up a lot of scraps in the room.

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MAT BOARD MASTERPIECES. Middleschool and high-school students can use leftover mat board of any size or color to create some incredible painted or drawn masterpieces. The students will be challenged with odd sizes and shapes of mat board. This will make them think outside of the square or rectangle box. Have them use some non-traditional materials as well, to make their artwork even more interesting.

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HUICHOL ART. Huichol art is traditional folk art produced by the Huichol people of Mexico. These are yarn paintings that can also be decorated with beads. Students of all ages can draw their design on a heavy cardboard or mat board. The next step is to paint white glue on one shape at a time and add colored yarn in a contoured parallel line design to fill in the shape.

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TRASH TO TREASURE RUNWAY. My

favorite end-of-the-year project I do every year during the last week of school is my version of Project Runway. The students, grouped in twos or threes, are given a theme and they must use whatever they can find in the boxes of “stuff” ready for the trash, to create clothing, or accessories. I usually give them a day or two to complete this task then we have a fashion show. We create a runway in the classroom (we did it in the hallway once) and the kiddos walk the catwalk using their best model walk. This is always a fun day that the kids love … it is a day full of laughter and good times. HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Raoul Dufy (June

3, 1877), Damien Hirst (June 7, 1965), M. C. Escher (June 17, 1898), Magdalena Abakanowicz (June 20, 1930), and Antoni Gaudi (June 25, 1852). Thank you, Laurie for your great tip. I wish ever yone a great summer break. Be creative, reflective, and get some rest. Don’t forget to make some art of your own, as we rarely get the time during the school year. And, most important (if I do say so myself): don’t forget to keep those tips coming! Please send them to me at tipsforartteachers@yahoo.com. n Arts & Activities Contributing Editor Glenda Lubiner (NBCT) teaches art at Franklin Academy Charter School in Pembroke Pines, Fla. She is also an adjunct professor at Broward College.

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