by the children of Idlewild Elementary and the guidance of artist Deirdre Daw

Turn those blank walls into something worth looking at!

I’m Joshua Winer, an artist who specializes in working with schools and communities to create works of mosaic art. I’m passionate about sharing the experience of collaborative art making. I’ve worked with many different communities to create mosaic murals, in my hometown of Boston and across the United States. I work with about five to ten schools and community groups per year, specifically on school mosaics and community mosaics.

I created this mural with lots of painting help from City Year and students at the school. See more of my art at www.howiegreen.com

An art education blog full of lessons, classroom management ideas, and classroom decor resources.

Each year, we try to start off the school year with a collaborative mural that focuses on a positive theme or goal for us all. The art lesson is merely a review of the art elements to get our memories flowing and our creative juices pumping. This year, we will be tracing our arms and hands and putting them on a mural in a way that shows each of us "reaching for the stars!" The designs in each hand will be a review of pattern, line, shape, color, form, texture, space and value.

I FINALLLLLLY got the beginning of the year collaborative project hung up. For the first day of art, everyone was asked to decorate 3-4 popsicle sticks. We talked about how small, plain, and ordinary...

This is an update on how the mural is going! Next week is our "opening"- everything is finished besides signing our names! Here are some im...