Some of my 8th grade students are hard to engage. With only a few weeks left in the trimester I knew that their next project needed to...

Middle school review: a shape that repeats infinitely across a plane without any spaces or overlaps is called a tessellation. My 6th...

There is something super motivating for students about optical illusions. Maybe it's the repetitive nature of creating them or the...

​​November is here and its crazy to think that I only have my current students for one more month until the first trimester of the year...

Inspired by modern Japanese artist Korehiko Hino's Surreal portraits, my students studied the principle of design EMPHASIS as they...

I am somewhat a formalist when it comes to teaching art. I enjoy building my students' observation /technical drawing skills through...

As my students are finishing up their 3D plaster letters my room becomes overloaded with half-done plastered pieces everywhere and while...

My 7th grade students love these Robert Indiana-inspired 3D forms that they make using the initials of their first name. We discuss...

Engaging my apathetic 8th graders is always a challenge, especially when it comes to building on skills that they do NOT like... like...

For some reason I catch myself super excited to post about my 6th grade every week. Maybe it's because I haven't taught 6th in a while...