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Early Childhood
Animation Made Simple
Pam Stephens
Making a modern-day
thaumatrope.
Advocacy
Asking for Art
Leslie Ann Kunkel
Developing and sharing a position
paper for arts education.
Elementary
Trapped in Stone
Carolyn Braden
Totem-inspired soft stone heads.
Meeting Individual Needs
Seizing the Moment
with Symmetry
Ranella Franklin
Building connections through art.
Inspiring Creativity in Teaching Since 1901.
Volume 110, Number 4, December 2010
SchoolArts is a national magazine committed to
promoting excellence, advocacy, and professional support for educators in the visual arts.
Editor, Nancy Walkup
Art teacher at W.S. Ryan Elementary, Denton, TX,
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Middle School
To the Rescue
Mary Coy
An art interaction with living birds.
High School
Self-Portrait Clay Boxes
Heidi Posh
An extension of a previous
SchoolArts article.
Museum Musings
Dancing Shadows, Epic Tales
Aurelia Gomez
Wayang Kulit shadow puppets
of Indonesia.
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Nicole Brisco, Pleasant Grove High School, Texarkana, TX,
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Mary Coy, Spry Middle School,
Webster, NY, MaryCoy@rochester.rr.com
Aurelia Gomez, Director of Educaton, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM, aurelia.gomez@state.nm.us
Theresa McGee, Monroe Elementary School, Hinsdale, IL,
tmcgee@d181.org
Martin Rayala, Assistant Professor of Art Education,
Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA,
Rayala@Kutztown.edu
Craig Roland, Associate Professor of Art Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, rolandc@ufl.edu
Paul Sproll, Rhode Island School of Design, Professor
and Head, Department of Teaching + Learning in Art +
Design, Providence, RI, psproll@risd.edu
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Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
Pamela.Stephens@nau.edu
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Rosemont, NJ, kvieth@crusoe.net
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7 Focus In
8 Design Thinking
11 New Products
12 Managing the Artroom
14 Teacher-Student Portfolio
50 Resource Center
52 Calendar
Ready-to-Use Resources
9 ClipCards
Laurie Bellet
Color Streams
Laurie Bellet
Plate Sensations
Nancy Walkup
Buggy Over Flowers
Cindy Hasio
State of the Art Soda Can
22 Tech4ArtEd
Theresa McGee
Twenty-First Century
Storytelling
23 Looking/Learning
Marilyn Stewart, Amy Ahn, Zoe
DeHart, Amanda Deibert, Cassie
Langan, Jennifer Low, Ellen
Pados, and Katherine Schneider
The Bayeux Tapestry
Beverly Buchanan
Gregory Crewdson
Fujiko Isomura
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