Table of Contents February 2011
On the cover: Third-grade students from W.S. Ryan Elementary School
in Denton, Texas play the roles of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera during
the school’s annual Day of the Dead presentation. This image is featured in this month’s Advocacy article, “Keeping Art in the Spotlight”
by Eldon Katter, which can be found online at schoolartsonline.com.
Theme Time
Elementary
29 Coins of the Realm
Stacy Marion
Creating Viking-style coins.
Middle School
36 Art Rocks with Rock Art!
Marianne Bickett
Discovering the oldest “art”
in America.
30
High School
17 Time to Make the Numbers
Michelle Surrena
A mixed-media printmaking
project.
Amazing Anthropomorphs
Marianne Bickett
A drawing lesson based
on rock art.
Make a Mark
Marianne Bickett
Foam prints based on
petroglyphs.
30 Artistic Chess
Christine Horvatis Blackwood
Playing games with art history.
17
Early Childhood
32 Handmade Quilts: From Kandinsky to Folk Art
Thea Storz
Inspiration from the quilters
of Gee’s Bend.
34 Collaging Memories
Michele Wallach
Creating autobiographical
collages.
38 Ode to Moore
Nancy Corrigan Wilbert
Creating sculptures in the
style of Henry Moore.
Mandalas: Pictures of
One’s Self and the World
Van James
Creating a symbol known
throughout time.
You Can Count on
van Gogh
Marlanda Birns
Teaching art through an
interdisciplinary approach.
34
The Present Is Key
to the Past
Kari Giordano
Comparing the lives of students
to the lives of trees.
42 Technology Showcase
44 Summer Educational Listings
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