Model for Our Show

My professors' show at Boston University. Having ours every two to three years rather than annually is an idea for us.
http://www.bu.edu/today/2011/art-shows-teachers-as-doers/

http://www.marcofolio.net/features/top_15_free_mac_apps_for_graphic_designers.html

Found this article while searching for free art software for my Macbook. See what you think

http://www.marcofolio.net/features/top_15_free_mac_apps_for_graphic_designers.html

painted people

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/alexa-meade-photos-imitate-paintings-1319236464-slideshow/1-photo-1319231558.html

Art Apps

Hi Guys,

Daryl Imanishi sent me this list of Art apps.  It is quite extensive.  Take a look when you have a moment.

http://appsineducation.blogspot.com/p/art-ipad-apps.html

Interesting sites

Here's a couple of interesting sites from Nancy Krooenberg that might be of interest:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fa20110916t3.html
http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/5BB4.en

Are we interested in hosting Art 21?

This is from the Art21 survey:

Art21 Access has a biennial preview-screening program presented in collaboration with museums, libraries, after-school programs, and community venues across the United States and internationally. Hosts receive a free packet of customized materials, as well as support from Art21 staff, to develop a screening event that will effectively engage local audiences.

7. Would your organization be interested in hosting an Access '12 event? Please specify the contact information for Art21 to reach your organization:

Would we like to do something like this?

I'm here

This is my first blog post. Wow!

World Images site

Here is the description of the World Images database:

The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It has just been selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in its historic collection of Internet materials. It contains approximately 80,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. The images can be located using many search techniques on the left hand toolbar, from QuickSearch to Advanced and ADA Searches. For convenience the images are organized into over 800 portfolios that appear alphabetically in the Portfolio List. You can use them or explore the database using Browse Collections. Here the portfolios are hierarchically organized beginning with continents and subject grouping.

My favorite starting point is often the portfolio list page here. 

Or you can do an advanced search, ADA search or take a look at community portfolios, or just browse the collections.

If you need images for historical projects or examples of things, this is a great place to start!

Here is a video from my home town newspaper The Calgary Herald high lighting Canada's best known group of artists.  They were called the Group of Seven.  Take a look and see what you think.

Slight Alterations

I went behind the scenes and made some setting adjustments to our team blog: (1) set the time zone to Tokyo (GMT+9 hr; it was set at +8 hr); (2) set up the mobile template on mobile devices; and (3) brightened the colors for active link text and visited text (I have a hard time seeing dark colors).

Hi

Here is an article about David Hockney using tech in his work.  It is a great piece and shows that even hough he is in his mid seventies, he is still trying new art forms.

David Hockney with his IPhone and using Brushes.

HI All

Hello to the future,

It is good to see us reaching into the 21st century.  Thanks to Sarah and Daniel for coming up with the idea and getting it started. 

Carl

No Artscape Page

I mentioned making an "Artscape" page on our Visual Arts Team blog, but appears that I can't (only Sarah can, as she's the administrator). Well, like I said, practice.

Where Good Ideas Come From (the video that Carl shared with us)

I thought I'd try embedding the video that Carl shared with us, which I just watched and found interesting.  :)

Artscape News

Jan Dale (ES Learning Support) sent me information about Artscape Japan's latest issue. Appears that Greg and Jessica also got the email. Perhaps Milan and Rebecca (our ASIJ Artscape reps) already know about this, but I thought the link will be worth sharing. (This also gives me more blogging practice.)
http://www.dnp.co.jp/artscape/eng/

The top story is on Bruce Osborn, a fellow Art Center alum. I've met him a couple of times and continue to keep in touch. In fact, my family and I have participated in his Oyako event twice (we're one of the 3,000 families he has shot).

I'm also going to go ahead and make an "Artscape" page on our team blog. Whether or not it'll be worth the space in the long run, I don't know. But, again, it's practice for me.

Greetings from Greg

Hey, who would ever thought I'd be using a blog? This should be fun!

Daniel, Present

Ready to get this started. Feel so "21st Century" already. Thanks, Sarah, for getting this up.

Unfortunately, I don't have anything to share at the moment.

Just in case you are overwhelmed . . .

Here's a blog post about being overwhelmed with information from David Truss, a really nice guy, teacher and now administrator who lives in BC (and recently back from a year as a principal at a school in China).   It's an interesting take on which tools he uses and how he feels about them.  It's not from an art teacher perspective, but it's good to hear that everyone feels overwhelmed with the amount of information out there at some point.



http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/drinking-from-a-fire-hose/

Ken Robinson Inspiration

We all know Sir Ken Robinson's TED talks (see both!) Here is a fantastic RSA Animate video that illustrates Sir Ken Robinson's talk on changing education paradigms. It's awesome!

 

Here is another RSA video that goes with Dan Pink's talk that covers the content of his book Drive about what motivates people. It's fascinating reading  - and watching!

Welcome to our collective blog!

We talked during the PACT meeting about creating a repository for resources that we found useful and wanted to share amongst ourselves. A blog seems like the easiest way to do that, allowing for multiple editors, tagging of entries for easy sorting / retrieval at a later date, and the ability to subscribe easily via RSS feed. I hope everyone will take a sec and toss up a quick post - nothing that takes too long, since we want to make this easy for all of us.

For example, here is a link to my edublogs blog that I used a couple of years ago in Wiscasset. The main blog was what I posted for students, but you will find links to the student blogs in top bar under 2008-2009 blogs. Feel free to take a look at what they posted as their e-portfolio that year. This was before we started using Google Apps as a school, which we started in 2009-2010.   Note that I made a custom header in Photoshop with examples of student work. If anyone wants help making one that will work in their blog please let me know and I'm happy to lend a hand. :)


Don't worry about what you post - helpful links, questions, videos, teaching resources, lists of art teachers on twitter (oh . . I have that somewhere . . .) or whatever seems relevant and helpful in your own - and thus our! - journey of learning.


**One note - please "label" your posts with some way for us to call it up again. If it's a video for elementary, add  - and separate by comma! - elementary, video, k, 1, 2, 3, 4,     or whatever labels seem relevant. If it's on Picasso, feel free to put Picasso in as a label. The only "wrong" way is not to label it at all! :)