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These early afternoon classes are designed for those who have taken some of the beginning classes in each of these mediums.
The Supplies list are online under the workshop categories.
Private lessons and critiques are available upon request and room availability.
UNM Continuing Education is Offering Art Lessons for Children this spring 2016 at the UNM WEST Rio Rancho Campus.
The first offering is a Zentangle Drawing Camp FEB 15 & 16th, 2016 at 9:30 am – 11 am.
The art class offerings will include Watercolor and pastel as an Afterschool instruction on Wednesdays 2pm- 4Pm offering for 6 weeks.
The Saturday Morning children’s, Beginning Drawing, Art Classes will be offered for 6 weeks beginning Feb 20th, 2016 at 11 am – 1 pm.
The classes are taught by Elaine Cimino, a fine-art painter, and has 20 years college-level teaching experience in drawing, painting and art history. She is an advocate for Visual Literacy. She has developed art curicullum for children and has worked in the public schools in Northern New Mexico as an Artist-in-Residence.
This past summer the Toon Time cartooning class was taught to the delight of parents and teachers at the UNM West Campus. Spread the word art classes are being offered Winter Spring and Summer
2016. For Upcoming Workships, classes and camps please browse the workshop menu.
ART IN ANY CLASSROOM Attributed to the Taft Museum Art Education Program
Impressionism & Impasto Painting
In the nineteenth century attitudes about landscape painting changed slowly. Anew cross-disciplinary attention to nature meant that artists began to take an interest in specific sites. Specific locations at specific times of day were made popular by a series of paintings by Claude Monet (French, 1835-1926) of the cathedral at Rouen. Impressionists were able to paint en plein air (outdoors) because of the invention of paint in tubes, which meant that oil paint could be prepared and taken into the countryside.
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“Born to Draw” iBook Series are viewable on Mac Laptops and Desktops with Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks
Both iBooks in the Series are now viewable on mac laptops and desktops
“Born to Draw” and other LIONap iBooks are now viewable on your desktop and laptop!
The MAC OS X 10.9 Mavericks upgrade is a free download that allows you to view iBooks. You can now view, click on the step-by-step illustrations in the Born to Draw iBook and project the assignment in the classroom for your students to draw.
This Common Core aligned drawing program allows teachers the interdisciplinary advantage of offering drawing with their lesson plans via Apple Laptop, Desktop, iPad, Mini iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Read more →
Guest Author Terry Heick
His blog is one the best on learning in the classroom
08/26/2012, Terry Heick,
Implementing iPads isn’t exactly a just-add-water proposition.
While they’re wondrous little devices capable of enchanting learners for hours, to get the learning results you’re likely after will take planning, design, and reflection.
It can help to start out by asking yourself some important questions, such as “What can the iPad do that is not possible without it? Put another way, what problems does the iPad solve?”
But the learning environment you’re starting with can make a big difference as well. It’s one thing to come up with individual lesson plans high on the wiz-bang factor, but low in terms of sustainability.
Below are 4 distinct areas of instruction and instructional design that can help frame the concept of iPad integration. Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, and Integration. Read more →
Below is a video link that outlines the rules of COPPA and our privacy policy links can be found in the footer of every page on the website.
In order to for your child attend the Born to Draw Virtual Online Classes parents need to register and fill out and return the Registration form that allows their children to attend the online art classes. This is a strict rule that conforms to the law in order to retain compliance and integrity for the Born to Draw program, in order to lawfully obtain your email link and allow you access into the classroom. Please follow the directions on the Virtual Art Room page. Please be sure to read our Privacy Rules.
Protecting your children is our responsibility, as well as, protecting the privacy of our client’s information.
Teaching art for nearly three decades is the best way I have found to give children skills that last a lifetime. I have been hauling around art stuff that amount to a 10’x15’ storage space. The expense over the years is awesome when it is totaled so I cannot “just throw it away.”
iBook app shares in class
I have to tell you these materials comes in handy now that I am moving my teaching online starting one day a week, Wednesday’s starting September 18th, 2013. Registration for classes has started. Many lessons are from the Step by step instruction projects found in the Born to Draw™ iBooks published through iTunes and the LIONap, who specialize in children’s educational books.
You can find all the resources you need to teach drawing and or follow along with the first year’s lessons, all 35 weekly lessons.
Now if you just want to learn art for yourself, your children or teach it in a classroom setting you can enjoy all the benefits of having taken art classes by experiencing the lessons found here. Whatever your needs, this site is sure to keep your creative juices flowing and provide the interactive online training one needs. Read more →
We need to add an “A” for art to the national STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education agenda and turn it to STEAM, writes guest columnist John Maeda.
John Maeda is president of Rhode Island School of Design and the author of “The Laws of Simplicity and Redesigning Leadership,” which expands on his Twitter feed at @johnmaeda
By John Maeda
Special to The Seattle Times
I tell people that I am a native of Seattle, but that I only knew it before it became cool. The creative economy hadn’t really happened yet — Boeing was the booming Microsoft equivalent back then; there was nascent grunge music and no coffee culture to speak of.
But amid the rain, and the fog, and the rain, and the rain, Seattle was home to the beginning of my journey traversing the fields of technology, art and design.
Read more →
Art matters with many districts reinventing art education to fit Common Core standards curriculum .
Here is a guest article on what the LAUSD is doing to promote the arts
By Robin Kemker On January 16, 2013 @ 8:46 pm In West
Speakers, flanked by posters of successful L.A. talent, visit briefly as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa begins to speak. Featured talents included celebrities Tom Cruise, George Lucas, John Legend, James Cameron, Eddie “Piolín” Sotelo, and Kathleen Kennedy, as well as education professionals Veronica Marquez and Monica Garcia. (Robin Kemker/The Epoch Times)
As the 2008 financial crash took its toll throughout the world from London to New York to Los Angeles schools started trimming their art budgets. The arts was hit more heavily than the nationally regulated mandatory core subjects, which have minimum scholastic performance criteria.
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is the second largest public school system in the United States with some 700,000 students. In early 2012, “art for the sake of art” became no longer affordable, and the LAUSD Board of Education proposed that its elementary arts budget be reduced to zero. Since 2008, the board has reduced the overall district art budget by $3 billion.
Watch How Smart Can We Get? on PBS. See more from NOVA scienceNOW.
This is a great series about what it means to be smart. What were the circumstances that grew Einstein’s brain?
Nurture creates nature vs. nature creates nurture. The hypothesis is that playing a musical instrument (the Violin in Einstein’s Case) helps to access intuition.
How creativity and creative thought manifests ways of conceptualizations that can be attributed to problem solving. The actual act of creating art and focus on problem solving allows people to enter the “Zone”
Thus allowing for processes to appear, emerge to the top and to access other intelligences and perhaps intuition itself. Musicians that learn to play an Instrument as a young person developed “bumps” on the brain that may increase intuitive thought.
Growing the brain is important and to keep it in shape mandatory.
