Arts & Activities articles from January 2007

Arts & Activities archives from January 2007

Editor's note.
January 1, 2007... With a sense of world history and an appreciation for cultures other than our own, our lives are greatly enriched. And, what better tool is there to help students develop an understanding of and respect for other times and people than art? ...

Native American Culture.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE (2006, $20.95), by Katherine Gleason. Rourke Publishing, Box 3328, Vero Beach, FL 32964; www.rourkepublishing.com. This is a book designed for elementary-level students. It helps us understand that creating...

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Their Lives and Ideas.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... FRIDA KAHLO AND DIEGO RIVERA: Their Lives and Ideas (2005; $17.95), by Carol Sabbeth. Chicago Review Press, 814 N. Franklin St., Chicago, IL 60610; www.chicagoreviewpress.com. It was in 1954 that Frida Kahlo died; three years later her...

Howling Coyotes and Frolicking Fish: Making Cross-Cultural Connections through Folk Art.(Audiovisual review)
January 1, 2007... HOWLING COYOTES AND FROLICKING FISH: Making Cross-Cultural Connections through Folk Art. CD-ROM/75 images, Teacher's Guide and Student Handouts/ $29.95. Level: Grades 3-12. Crizmac Art & Cultural Education Materials, Inc., P.O. Box 65928,...

Crayola.(shop talk)
January 1, 2007... Now including colored pencils, crayons, markers (traditional and washable), Model Magic and paint, Binney & Smith's CRAYOLA multicultural product line offers young artists more tools to draw the diverse and global world they live in. With a...

Geeguides.(shop talk)
January 1, 2007... GEEGUIDES aims to bring the worlds of art, technology and fun together. Their animated Art Guides are ready to lead students through countless adventures exploring art principles, history and hands-on creation. Anyone can communicate with the...

Royal & Langnickel.(shop talk)
January 1, 2007... ROYAL & LANGNICKEL introduces its exclusive line of Paint Your Own Masterpiece artist sets. This unique product is based on the classic Renaissance technique of Grisaille, which is the process of developing artworks in gray tones and then using...

Segmation Technology.(shop talk)
January 1, 2007... Software developer SEGMATION TECHNOLOGY has introduced SegPlayPC, a digital paint-by-numbers. With this desktop program, users can color images with their mouse instead of a brush. The program includes 20 images, from master works of art and...

Dixon Ticonderoga.(shop talk)
January 1, 2007... DIXON TICONDEROGA has created the RediSharp Plus, a permanent marker that is odor-free and doesn't bleed through papers. Made with water-based ink, the markers are also safe to use when marking CDs because they don't contain the alcohol-based...

Jacquard.(shop talk)
January 1, 2007... JACQUARD's Tee Juice Fabric Markers allow students and artists to create personal, wearable art. These bold markers come in eight colors that deliver bright strokes on T-shirts and fabric that are soft to the touch. Tee Juice Fabric Markers are...

Bruly Bouabre's Alphabet.(Video recording review)
January 1, 2007... BRULY BOUABRE'S ALPHABET. VHS or DVD/17 min./$150 (VHS rental, $50). Level: High School. First Run/Icarus Films, 32 Court St., 21st Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201; (800) 876-1710; www.frif.com. In the mid-20th century, Ivory Coast artist...

Young artist.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... It's hard to say why I like art, but I love it! Many kids have asked me how to do it, but I don't really like that question because I don't know how to explain it to them. I like to draw nature pictures because I have a drawing teacher...

Grandma Moses: grandmother to the nation.(LEARNING from EXHIBITIONS)(Fenimore Art Museum)
January 1, 2007... Has anyone in America not heard of Grandma Moses? Among American artists, or artists of the 20th century, she surely ranks among the most famous and recognized. Even against the most renowned names in the history of art, the average citizen...

Parody in art: translating by the masters.
January 1, 2007... In this assignment, my students celebrated humor by creating their own parodistic translations of well-known images in art as a culmination to a unit that covered Pop art, Dada and Surrealism. While I did this with middleschool students, it...

Writing enrichment.(INTEGRATING the curriculum)(art education)
January 1, 2007... I'm not proud to admit it but, sometimes, depending on my mood or the class, or one or two extremely challenging children, a 48-minute period can slog by like the drip, drip, drip of water from a leaky faucet. Other times, time seems to...

Experiencing van Gogh.(Vincent Van Gogh)
January 1, 2007... It's amazing how naturally the vibrant energy of children can be incorporated into their artwork. I needed a fairly short lesson to work in between a larger unit that was approaching. When speaking with a high-school art teacher friend of mine,...

The tale of the Museum trip that wasn't.(Philadelphia Museum of Art )
January 1, 2007... As my students and I entered the room, we were reminded to be quiet... and of course, not to touch the artwork. Where were we? Well, not quite where I had intended! Winter weather forced the cancellation of our scheduled trip to the...

Outlandish!(art ACROSS the CURRICULUM)(Lureca Outland's quilt)
January 1, 2007... "We had to vote to get the things we want. Now these kids can vote and they don't." * --Lureca Outland as quoted in article "A Patchwork Life that Spans a Century" by Andriena Baldwin in The Demopolis Times, March 13, 2006. Back when...

Clip & save art notes.(Egyptian Art)
January 1, 2007... ABOUT SYMBOLISM IN EGYPTIAN ART No series devoted to symbolism in art would be complete without a selection from ancient Egypt. Perhaps no other civilization in history has relied more heavily on symbolic imagery to depict nearly every...

Ancient Egyptian wall painting.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Ancient Egyptian wall painting: Pashedu with the Sacred Eye of Horus (detail). Tomb of Pashedu, Deir el-Medina; Tomb of the Nobles, Luxor; 20th Dynasty (1314-1085 B.C.).

Classroom use of the art print.(Egyptian paintings)
January 1, 2007... THINGS TO LEARN * The tomb of Pashedu is located in Egypt, in an area known as the Valley of the Kings. The area is located in the west bank of the Nile River, across from Luxor, the city which in ancient times was called Thebes. Pharaohs...

Egyptian-canopic jars.
January 1, 2007... Just mention Ancient Egypt to elementary school students and their minds race with visions of pyramids, mummies, treasures and adventure. When we taught sixth grade at our elementary school, an introduction to ancient cultures was a part of...

Visions inspired by Howard Finster.
January 1, 2007... Every year, I use a theme-based curriculum approach with my students. I find that it not only makes art interesting for them, but for me as well. Recently, I developed a unit called the North American Art Adventure. The purpose of the unit was...

Ex-votos: a way to say thank you.(Mexican painting)
January 1, 2007... Frida Kahlo collected them, and her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, called them "the only pictorial expression of the Mexican people." What are they? Ex-votos. In Mexican Catholic churches, these paintings are one of the traditional ways...

2007 buyer's guide.(Part 1)(art and craft supplies)(Directory)
January 1, 2007... ARTS & ACTIVITIES' comprehensive directory of sources of art and craft supplies and equipment, schools, publications and services... a ready reference for teachers, administrators and purchasing agents. (* = EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES) Telephone and...

2007 buyer's guide.(Part 2)(art and craft products)(Buyers guide)
January 1, 2007... ARTS & ACTIVITIES' comprehensive directory of sources of art and craft supplies and equipment, schools, publications and services... a ready reference for teachers, administrators and purchasing agents. (* = EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES) Telephone and...

2007 buyer's guide.(Part 3)(art and craft supplies)(Directory)
January 1, 2007... ARTS & ACTIVITIES' comprehensive directory of sources of art and craft supplies and equipment, schools, publications and services... a ready reference for teachers, administrators and purchasing agents. (* = EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES) Telephone and...

2007 buyer's guide.(Part 4)(art and craft products)(Buyers guide)
January 1, 2007... ARTS & ACTIVITIES' comprehensive directory of sources of art and craft supplies and equipment, schools, publications and services... a ready reference for teachers, administrators and purchasing agents. (* = EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES) Telephone and...

Tried & true tips for art teachers: art from around the world.(Column)
January 1, 2007... Many schools are embracing cultural diversity by honoring our differences through the arts, music, history and language, bringing us closer together. As art teachers, we know that we often do just that by incorporating the art of other cultures...