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ʎɔuɐddılɟ puɐ ƃuıddılɟ

˙pǝʇɔǝdxǝun ǝɹɐ ʎǝɥʇ ǝsnɐɔǝq ʇsnɾ unɟ ǝɹɐ sƃuıɥʇ sǝɯıʇǝɯos
˙ǝƃlnpuı ı sıɥʇ ɹoɟ ‘os ˙spɐǝɥ ɹno ɥɔʇɐɹɔs uǝʌǝ ǝqʎɐɯ puɐ ɥƃnɐl sn sǝʞɐɯ puɐ uoıʇuǝʇʇɐ ɹno sǝɥɔʇɐɔ ʇı ʇuǝɯoɯ ɐ ɹoɟ ʇnq ˙ʎlʞɔınb plo ʇǝƃ llıʍ ʇı ˙ʞɔıɹʇ ɐ sı ʇı ˙ƃuıʇıɹʍ uʍop ǝpısdn ǝɥʇ sı ʞǝǝʍ ǝɥʇ ɟo ʞɔıɹʇ ǝʇıɹoʌɐɟ ʎɯ puɐ ˙sǝʇou ǝɯos uǝʇʇıɹʍ [...]

Innovative Thinking Is Learned

Art is a cause, not a result, of creativity.
Saying art is about creativity can harm a comprehensive understanding of art. When we clarify ways of thinking about art we may be able to tap the phenomenal potential that arts provide to learning methods.
The idea of creativity usually evokes the idea of imagination. Imagination may relate [...]

Is Painting Dead?

The term Painting here also relates to Drawing. The point is that it is a mark-making method that directly connects the body, mobilized in conjunction with nerves and brain activity, to the material world, on one end with perception and on the other with a manifested image.

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What Is Art Education Good For?

The experience of art making influences our sense of being in the world in both subtle and blatantly obvious ways. Realizing that we do not already know everything about what we are, what we think and what we can do is necessary to all learning and to an evolution of consciousness and civilization.

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Students’ Learning

I just added to: Samples of Students’ Work
& Student Comments on Work & Learning

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Portrait of a Class

Art 1A Summer 2009: Student Comments
Students commenting on their learning experience in my Ancient Art History Class, Summer 2009.
Sincerity, like poetry, is often wrapped in imperfect sentences.
I extracted and condensed but avoided editing student writing.

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Beginning a Project

We don’t always know what will be necessary for completion when we begin. It is better to allow a beginning to happen rather than obsess over how the finished product will look.

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Mattress Art

Segment from the Mattress Art Story
I have taken jaunts with multiple media. To name a few, I have had phases working in ceramics, textiles, web and I have an enduring fondness for hardware and bits of junk. All the work crosses paths conceptually, experientially and in ways of form.
In general art is an amalgamation of [...]

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Aleph-Bet Image Calculator

GoTo >>> >> Play with the Aleph-Bet

Here you can select up to 6 letter images to line up as a pattern or word.
Above: Yod and Chet from The Aleph-Bet by Wendy Angel
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Anatomy of Paintings: Process

GoTo >>> Anatomy of Paintings >>> see paintings emerge.
Change is radical and relatively rapid at the beginning phase of a painting. Usually something from the beginning remains all the way through. Sometimes there is a major shift in early or middle stages. Once a composition takes hold there is a long process of developing nuances. The [...]

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