Old door closes and New door open!

The last ten years I’m been teaching in a small rural school district in Wyoming east of the state capital city Cheyenne, WY. Where I been the only K-6 Art teacher for 4 Elementary schools which it been a amazing and challenging experience. Well I enjoyed my time at Laramie 2 and very thankful for the opportunities and great memories I had during the 10 years as The LCSD#2 District Elementary Art Teacher but there are times when you feel it is time to move on and start a new adventure. As many you know that new adventure will start at the end of August where I will be teaching art at Sunrise Elementary School in Cheyenne. I am excited of my new journey in my careere but I will miss the students and the great staffs at AES, BES, CES, and PBES. Thank you Laramie 2 Community for allowing me be apart of your great Community….sunrise

Wow this year summer Institute at University of Wyoming Art Museum was the best ever.

The work the was inspired by the inquiry process of Place the participants went through during the last week’s  University of Wyoming Art Museum Summer Teacher Institute and still a day after I am speechless of work and amazed of the talent of the teacher in Wyoming. What do you think about work ?

Work in progress during Summer teacher institute!

   
    
    
    
   

Transforming Learning 2015 Summer Teaching Institute The NewWent: Contemporary Conevrsations of Place

Today is the start of the  one of the best workshop in Wyoming. This is my seventh year going to the Institute to connect, collaborate, and network and I know at the end of the week my mind will be recharged and ready for  my students and my new school.  I will be post through the out the week on here the Facebook and twitter.  

Artregous with Nate

I use YouTube videos in my lessons all the time and one channel I love the most which is Artrageous with Nate.  Nate has a range ofvideos from demos to visits to artist studios and the greatest part is that he tailors is video with kids in mind.  Artrageous with Nate is almost have resources for your classroom .

Do you use YouTube videos? What was do you like?

 

STEAM Education 

In recent years a topic of STEAM vs STEM keeps coming up.  Even though I believe STEAM Education will be great for Art Education but I struggle how it will look like and how to convince the policymakers that STEAM is the way to go.  So I would like your input  to this questions What do you think STEAM Eduction should look like  and how will STEAM impact Art Education as a whole?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnl3q0L80vI

Artist Showcase

Every month I am planning to showcase a contemporary arts and this month artist is Amy Shackleton.  Amy is an environment artist from Canada and does amazing landscape/cityscape  paintings created by just using  squish bottles. I even tried her technique with my students but it did turn out the way I planned…anyway here is Amy talking about her most ambitious painting yet that she start back in 2011.

 

Highlights from day two

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