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Trash to Treasure

High-school students reuse and repurpose found materials to create beautiful works of art.

15 October 2024High School
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Geometry Is for the Birds

High-school students and math teachers collaborate to create custom-made birdhouses for residents at a local retirement village.

15 October 2024High School
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Focus In: Unsung Heroes Project

Middle- and high-school students celebrate the stories of individuals who have impacted our world for the better.

15 October 2024Middle School
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Raising a Village

Middle-school students work together to construct an enclosed play area for the class pet hamster.

16 September 2024Middle School
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Contemporary Art in Context: Jennifer Halli

Multidisciplinary artist Jennifer Halli shares abstract and site-specific works that explore themes of travel, growth, and loss.

15 August 2024Contemporary Art
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The Mindful Art of Keeping Others in Mind

I wanted to come up with a way to contextualize mindful strategies so students could practice self-regulation while talking through an uncomfortable feeling with a friend or listening to another person without jumping to conclusions. The solution was surprisingly simple. I would give students a collaborative assignment with no obvious solution, and we would mindfully work through the difficulties we encountered with painting and conversation.

1 March 2024Early Childhood
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Redrawing the Classroom as a Model of Mindfulness

Welcome to our art lab. Today, we will discover what it feels like to be mindful in and through drawing class. We’ll participate in a series of activities that incorporate physical manipulation of materials, visual thinking and storytelling, mark-making on paper, sculpture, creative movement, and body-breath work.

1 March 2024Elementary
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Focus In: Plastic with a Purpose

The Washed Ashore organization builds and exhibits aesthetically powerful art to educate a global audience about plastic pollution in the ocean and waterways and to spark positive changes in consumer habits. Learn how the Washed Ashore project served as a catalyst for students to use plastic trash to create works of art.

15 December 2023Advocacy
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CAD Sculpture Garden

Elementary students collaborate, problem-solve, and take creative risks while contributing to a 3D-printed sculpture garden.

15 November 2023Elementary
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Paper Microbes

High-school students collaborate to create a microbiology installation inspired by contemporary artist Rogan Brown.

15 November 2023High School
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Art Traps

One of the premises of TAB is that children are able to conceive ideas and express them within the specially designed learning centers of theTAB classroom. For students in K–12 settings, initiating creative action within the reality of their personal world—using their free will—is what makes TAB learning experience so unique.

1 October 2023Choice-Based
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ClipCard: City Community

High School Lesson: How do objects and places shape lives and communities? Students will create a three-dimensional clay building to contribute to a larger clay city.

1 October 2023High School