A special education transition specialist shares the importance of providing opportunities for students with disabilities to receive recognition for their work.
Middle-school students learn about narrative art and folk art, then create a woodblock painting depicting a significant family memory.
Elementary students build their problem-solving, social-emotional, and exploratory learning skills as they collaborate.
Elementary students learn about the origins of their food from local farmers and create a mural based on local food systems.
High-school students explore cultural fashion motifs with a contemporary twist.
Elementary students create segmented side-profile portraits inspired by the work of multidisciplinary artist Derrick Adams.
High-school students familiarize themselves with the Adobe Illustrator workspace and various program tools while creating digital avatars.
A visiting fiber artist shares his narrative textiles and creative process with middle-school students.
Karen Ann Hoffman is an artist and citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. Since the 1990s, she has been creating peace, beauty, and meaning through her Haudenosaunee Raised Beadwork, an art form that is unique to the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and characterized by lines of beads that arch above the textile surface.
Morel Doucet is a Miami-based, Haitian-American multidisciplinary artist and arts educator who explores climate change, gentrification, and displacement among communities of the African diaspora through sculpture, printmaking, and illustration. He views his art as a celebration of nature within the Afrofuturism movement. Afrofuturist art incorporates futuristic and science-fiction themes with elements of black and African culture.
The Flower of Life is a symbolic representation of life and the interconnectedness of all things. It is associated with the Sacred Geometry school of thought, an ancient science that studies the spiritual significance of shapes and proportions and how they reflect the universe. The circles that make up the flower symbol can be arranged in an infinite number of ways, each creating a new and unique pattern.
Learn how educator, Stephanie Graham, centered an arts integration project around the implementation of place-based strategies in the teaching of Native American history. The framework for the project was structured around the Standard Model of Indigenous Learning (SMIL) created by Sandra Barton, Ph.D.