I love to integrate music in my lessons and I have a great way to do it (Music Paintings). This project can be a collaboration project with the music teachers.
Here are a couple of examples of Music Paintings.
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Category Archives: Art Education
University of Wyoming Art Museum Transforming learning summer Teaching Institute
The past three years I have participated in the University of Wyoming Art Museum Transforming Learning Summer Teaching Institute. During this time, I and other school and community educators focus on learning through original artwork, artists, and other original resources for an entire week. Unlike many other educational
institutes or workshops we do not talk about teaching and how teach, we just
explore, learn and grow from each other. In turn, the ideas and resources we learn about will help us to inspire creativity in our students in the coming year. That’s all we really want as art educators to inspire creativity in our students. Below are some of the original art works that I created during the institute that has inspired so many ideas and lessons for my student including the Blueprints on Fabric.
What can Art teach?
Art Education Advocacy “What can Art teach?”
Created by students at Pittsburg State University.
Inspiring Books for the Art Room
The last couple of years I have used two books by S.D. Nelson and a quilt my mother made based on one of the books as inspirations for lessons in my classroom. Nelson is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and his stories are based on things he
learned as a child. I use the books as a cultural connection in fourth grade, as well as an example of art telling a story. The following are two books I think you would love to use in your classroom.
The Star People A Lakota Story.
Two children, Sister Girl and her brother, Young Wolf get lost in the prairie after a wild fire. It takes their grandmother and the other star people to guide them back to their parents and their village. It is well written and illustrated and a great example of how simple pictures can tell and guide a story.
Gifted Horse A Lakota Story
This is the first book by S.D. Nelson and it is a about a journey a boy takes with his
horse to become a man. My students love to hear and read this inspiring story. The quilt my mother made based on this book inspires my students to create amazing drawings and paintings.
I hope you and your students will enjoy these books and in the coming weeks I will be sharing more books that I use to inspire my students. Also, I will share a picture of the
quilt in the near future.