Just to give a heads up for anyone following, I will be taking a break from posting for just a few weeks because I will be taking care of my...

Acrylic painting is fun, but tricky to use at the elementary level.  As stated in my previous post, I offered an after school art class e...

Before teaching acrylic painting to an entire grade level, I started with an after school class, limited attendance to 15, and offered i...

I teach in a district with a wide variety of needs, and with traveling, I see how those needs change from school to school.  For exampl...

I and the Village  is a 1911 painting by the Russian-French artist  Marc Chagall , which is shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York...

On June 30th, The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards publicly released the new in-progress standards for 5 areas: Visual Arts, ...

Whether you're pushing a cart or teaching in a room, the 1st graders love working with this easy materials: watercolor crayons.  Th...