11/21/2024
This month’s Evenings for Educators offers an exciting chance to explore the legacy of photographer Ansel Adams and learn how his mastery of light and shadow can inspire students to create truly impactful photographs.
9/24/2024
If you have not seen the exhibition The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, go now—it closes soon on Sunday, September 29!
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.”
11/30/2018
Thinking of attending Summer Teacher Institute in 2019? Here's why you should.
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.
3/13/2018
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11/15/2017
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