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High-school students collaborate with artist Bryant Holsenbeck to create an outdoor jellyfish installation from sustainable materials.
Middle-school students collaborate during a meaningful design challenge in which they create a felted planter for a community garden.
In this issue, high-school art teacher Kathleen Sneed Petka shares her Trash to Treasure challenge, an activity to inspire students to reuse materials and to find the beauty in everyday items.
High-school students explore cultural fashion motifs with a contemporary twist.
Artist Nnenna Okore addresses ecological concerns through sustainably made sculptures and installations.
Middle-school students explore rug-making through two unique assignments after taking a boat tour of the local waterways.
Discover how the Love Quilt Project supports the educational and emotional needs of children living in foster care in South Africa and the United States.
Young students use rubbing plates, watercolors, and found objects to make a textured collage.
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.
Teaching embroidery comes from a deep-seated desire to slow down the hurried nature of our lives. In gathering together to learn the art, we begin to share a practice of meditation and mindfulness, or being in the moment.
The middle-school years are a wonderful time for students to learn that words matter. In this lesson, the key concept is communication. Students used text on fabric to share their ideas and created word pillows with an inspiring message. I began the lesson with a few quotes and reminded my young artists that these words and others have shaped our country. We [then] discussed how and why words matter. Words have the power to inspire our actions and bring people together.
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