What I've been doing for Art since my last post...

Ta-Da! It's March already! This image is from the Portland Children's Museum. It is a piece that symbolizes the work the museum is doing when teaching art using a constructivist approach. Children helped imagine it, design it and build it during classes there.

Back in December I was accepted into a program at the Children's museum called "Artists as Educators," along with about 10 other Artists. We have been busy attending workshops and classroom observations.  Our mission: to absorb as much as we can of what the museum has learned about kids through research, practice and a hearty respect for children and how they learn. Then, to share these approaches and teach art using these techniques so that children of all ages can create more enriching and meaningful visual work. I will have more pictures to share as I get them organized to post.