So, to be totally transparent I am doing a ton of these activities with my kids. You can see a lot more of my attempts at this, warts and all, here, on my personal instagram. However, I have taken the extra step to properly document some of the projects that have required the most effort... Continue Reading →
Every week at the Decorative and Fine Arts Camp we start off the week with painting in the mornings and clay in the afternoon! It's always a big hit. We have a clay tile relief sculpture project with more specific instructions and then campers also have the freedom to do free experimentation and sculpture making.... Continue Reading →
Just like last year, my Foundations of Studio Art classes are saving the planet with recycled art projects! Here you can see what we have begun calling our "trash island". It is an ever-growing pile of stuff that has potential as art supplies. However it kind of explodes each class, and has to be re-sorted... Continue Reading →
I know, I know, it's October, but September is a busy month for teachers, especially this one. I have been very busy adjusting for the exciting new changes that came with this year. To begin with, we have two new teachers in our upper school visual art department. That makes four of us. We have... Continue Reading →
Now that our school year has come to a close, I finally have time to brag a bit about the amazing success of my classes final exam. Each student was given the task of designing their own projects for themselves, setting goals, and sketching out a plan for action. They were asked to draw from... Continue Reading →
If you've known me for a while then you know I've worked at Glen Echo Park in Maryland for eight of the past nine summers now, and about nine weeks each summer. I took off one summer to travel to Salamanca Spain, where my father re-married and I studied Spanish at the Universidad de Salamanca.... Continue Reading →
It is getting close to summertime and I am experiencing nostalgia. I have now worked for 8 years as a summer art teacher at one of the most beautiful national park cites in the US, Glen Echo Park in Maryland. Here are a few gems from last year.
I substitute taught an after-school class today on Roosevelt Island. It was my first time ever on the Island and I was so excited to have an excuse to go. However, today's weather couldn't of been more drizzly and gray. It did make for some dramatic pictures. This is looking west from the Island at... Continue Reading →
Today, up in Hudson Heights, my "Let's look in our favorite book!" class had our second in-home lesson. In honor of the snow we read The Mitten, by Jan Brett. (My favorite winter time children's book.) And then Painted the snow. I brought brown and red paper so that our white and blue tempera paint... Continue Reading →
Emma Teaches Art! 