2/22/2023
This story begins with Samantha Gaier, the museum’s Associate Director of School-Based Learning, asking about my personalized Super Bowl XLI Bengals jersey during a “visual arts professional development day” for art teachers with Cincinnati Public Schools. Little did she know, the jersey was just a small part of a larger story, a love story that began almost 40 years earlier.
2/16/2023
Inspired by the brilliant photography of Georgia O’Keeffe, Montessori students from the Xavier University Montessori Lab School experienced a novel three-part lesson about the innovative female artist.
3/9/2020
Students were so excited to start a Romare Bearden lesson.
1/22/2020
How do you make artwork from the Cincinnati Art Museum relevant to a group of students who do not even know where Cincinnati is?
1/2/2020
Check out a preview of this month's Evenings For Educators teacher program.
11/22/2019
Check out this lesson that connects Opera and art.
11/18/2019
Check out a preview of November's Evenings for Educators program.
10/28/2019
Aminah Robinson was an inspiring fabric artist who created beautiful artworks based on her life story.
10/22/2019
Sculpture is a new semester course this year. Every project that the students create is a ‘new adventure’ for us all!
9/16/2019
This week we are celebrating 30 years of Evenings for Educators!
4/24/2019
Check out the lesson plans from our last Evenings for Educators!
4/11/2019
Our lesson’s theme is “River Cities’ Scenes: Paris on the Seine/Cincinnati on the Ohio.”
3/25/2019
Figure drawing is a basic fundamental practice for an advanced drawing class.
3/18/2019
The March Evenings For Educators will celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of women artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Elizabeth Nourse and others.
2/25/2019
Cellist and classically trained vocalist, Kate Wakefield was featured at February’s Evening for Educators, so I developed my lesson, “Stringed Instrument Collage” to connect music and art.
2/20/2019
At this month’s Evenings for Educators, I will be presenting a lesson merging both art and music that my partner teacher and I refer to as “Picasso Guitars.”
11/20/2018
Embroidery, block printing, kalamkari painting and more!
11/13/2018
Check out this November Evenings for Educators preview.
10/22/2018
Our adventure with Gillian Wearing started with a brief history of her life as an artist.
10/1/2018
This introductory unit, Impressive Tiles, was a wonderful way to explore slab rolling and textures, as well as communicate a ‘message’.
9/18/2018
Students explored the use of calligraphy and its many uses in the Islamic world in our unit on Zoomorphic Calligraphy.
5/11/2018
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11/10/2017
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