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I'm a teaching artist who loves imaginative thinking and the gift that is the creative life.
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Sandhill Cranes, Santos, San Idelfonso pottery
Posted Jul 13, 2019 at Illustrations + Drawings
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Roadrunners, Rattle Snakes and Retablos
Posted Jul 13, 2019 at Illustrations + Drawings
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Queen's Crown and Fray Quinones Organ
Posted Jul 13, 2019 at Illustrations + Drawings
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Dia de los Muertos
Posted Jul 5, 2019 at Illustrations + Drawings
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Chimayo Weavers
Posted Jul 5, 2019 at Illustrations + Drawings
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Georgia O'Keefe at Ghost Ranch
Posted Jul 5, 2019 at Illustrations + Drawings
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Fandango Franciscans
Posted Jul 5, 2019 at Illustrations + Drawings
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Metate and Mano
Posted Jul 5, 2019 at Illustrations + Drawings
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Navajo Code Talkers and Pinion Pines
Posted Jul 5, 2019 at Illustrations + Drawings
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Elf Owl and God's Eye
Posted Jul 5, 2019 at Illustrations + Drawings
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The imporatnce of modelling.
I swim on a masters team several mornings a week. In all of the six lanes at 5:30am there are a wide variety of swimmers. On any given day the adults that show up are a range that spans from new swimmers, to people who grew up swimming in age-group... Continue reading
Posted Oct 8, 2016 at Art Education | Instructional Practice
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Scaffolding our stories.
Posted Oct 5, 2016 at Art Education | Instructional Practice
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Let me count the ways I have altered my instructional plan as I taught the lesson.
Posted Oct 3, 2016 at Art Education | Instructional Practice
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Planning is like budgeting.
Posted Oct 2, 2016 at Art Education | Instructional Practice
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Routines
Posted Sep 27, 2016 at Art Education | Instructional Practice
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Make a place to sit down.
Wendell Berry tells us in poem ‘ How to Be a Poet’ to : ‘Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet.’This is about listening; listening to the quiet. Classroom management is about listening to the quiet space between student action and student learning. Now, you might have... Continue reading
Posted Sep 27, 2016 at Art Education | Instructional Practice
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Classroom Management: Visual Arts Classroom
Wendell Berry tells us in poem ‘ How to Be a Poet’ to : ‘Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet.’This is about listening; listening to the quiet. Classroom management is about listening to the quiet space between student action and student learning. Now, you might have... Continue reading
Posted Sep 18, 2016 at Instructional Practice
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willfulness
When the idea and making are realised, the next step is not really a next step it is more of a consistent act of willfulness. Continue reading
Posted Nov 15, 2014 at from a painted table
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Is beauty suspect?
Has an aesthtic been lost? Is beauty suspect? Considering how beauty is set aside for content, as though the beautiful. The deep unseen in a work is not to be trusted. I for one, still believe that beauty and content can walk together. Continue reading
Posted Oct 26, 2014 at from a painted table
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like prayers prayed back to the one who prays
Because I love this poem. How To Be a Poet By Wendell Berry (to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill—more of each than you have—inspiration, work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity.... Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2014 at from a painted table
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‘Is your curriculum being swallowed up by Common Core?’
Posted Sep 21, 2014 at from a painted table
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‘…I can’t wait for painting!’
Posted Sep 7, 2014 at from a painted table
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certainty is so suspect
Posted Sep 1, 2014 at from a painted table
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Connecting
Here I am. This post will seem that I am leading toward a bit of a film studies blog. But not so, simply peering through the looking glass at lives of artists. It used to be artists were all I lived around. Our ‘selves’ were what we accepted about one... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2014 at from a painted table
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Looking at Tinkering
The first time we went to see Terence Malick's Tree of Life, admittedly, I was restless. 'What are we watching?' I thought. 'What is the narrative here?' I tried to engage. There was something about the film that really is a film. It takes its time. It is a mediation,... Continue reading
Posted Jun 30, 2014 at from a painted table
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