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Image 13 of 17 from gallery of Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts / Machado and Silvetti Associates. Photograph by Anton Grassl_ESTO

Image 9 of 48 from gallery of Pomona College Studio Art Hall / WHY Architecture. Photograph by Iwan Baan

Art Workshops Studio Peek First Friday

Okay so technically I don't actually go back to work for preplanning until Monday.. but I've spent a good amount of time already in my classroom this summer. I was really fortunate in getting my new position as the art teacher at a brand new elementary school in my county. That means new building, new furniture, new students, new adventures, and....starting from scratch. :) This is what my new classroom looked like a month ago. This is what it looks like now! :) Moved over a bit. I'm so…

Here is a look at how you can plan an effective classroom space specific for teaching ceramics.

Despite having three wonderful, separate sink areas in the art room, my students and I all gravitate to the low sink at the right of the room. Today, at clean-up with my 4th graders who had major paint stuff to clean, I, out of the blue, assigned each of my three table "islands" their own sink. The helpers dealing with cleaning up all of the water containers received rights to the low sink. WOW! It was awesome. No traffic jams, no impatient hands washing hands over hands. And all three sinks…

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