Art Teacher Thinking

You want me to teach what where?

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When a student decides to take their wonderful artwork and put the “Super S” all over it to make it cooler

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When classroom teachers keep telling me to get my students to make “salt maps”

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When my kindergartners draw turkeys using shapes and not by tracing their hands

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When I’m asked to contribute art projects to a STEM event

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When I’m asked when do I go back to school

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When my principal tries to tell me how to be an art teacher

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When I'm asked why I'm teaching summer school

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When I see a student during summer break

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When I'm asked to get my art students to make posters

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When I think about how I signed up for summer school

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When the only constructive thing I’ve done on summer break has been updating my Pinterest boards

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Hey i have a question, what is purist art? Im not understanding what is actually is like whats the point theyre trying to reach

So I had to look this up because I’m only vaguely familiar with the word, much less the concept. Purism was a relatively small art movement in France that was developed from Cubism, a way bigger art movement. Purist paintings were a little “cleaner” than Cubist paintings. 

BUT what is really cool is that one of the founders of this movement was  Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris (aka Le Corbusier), who is considered one of the founders of modern architecture and city planning. He took ideas that he developed in his Purist paintings and transferred them to his architecture.

Amédée Ozenfant was the other founder of the Purist movement. He and Le Corbusier had joint art shows of Purist paintings. Through their work, he developed these theories that color is important when you are planning buildings.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/484025/Purism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9d%C3%A9e_Ozenfant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier

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When I’m told I would have help hanging artwork for a school event but no one shows up

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Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

Well done all you artist/teachers for getting it done.

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I'm not even a teacher nor an art student and I still follow your blog

I don’t usually respond to anonymous messages, but thank you little gray circle :) I’m glad you enjoy it!

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When certain kids give me artwork that they made specifically for me

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This is out of concern but can't you get in trouble for posting photos of a child's artwork? We have students who research art therapy and teaching, and they have to get approval from the state board to even use or post anonymous the art of the unnamed students. I just want to make sure you don't get in trouble for violating student protective laws!

Hi there. In my years of teaching and my training at university, I’ve actually never come across any laws like this. I’ve always been warned against posting pictures of the child but never the child’s artwork. I appreciate your concern, but I suspect this might be a state thing, if it’s a thing at all. Art therapy may be a little different, but that’s not my field.. Every authority I have crossed has never said anything to this effect to me and uh…our entire county just had an enormous art show without submitting a board proposal to the state sooo…

I appreciate your concern, but as far as I have been informed what I’m doing is completely kosher. There are thousands of art teacher blogs out there who do similar things.

I’ll open it up for discussion though, because now I’m curious.artteacherthinking, artfulartsyamy, artededucator, zoesucksatteaching, missteeeee, artteacheradventures have any of you ever heard of this???

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I’m pretty sure that posting artwork is fine, but you shouldn't post student signatures/names or photos of students working (and you didn't do either of those).