Have you ever seen art from illuminated manuscripts from Bibles, Psalters, the Book of Hours and Bestiaries? Have your children? Well, get ready to sit back and enjoy the ride! ARTK12’s third new children’s book this year is almost done. Take a look at what’s coming.
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Bored students got you down? Does American Art History seem a little daunting? Well friends and neighbors you are in luck! The ARTK12 American Art Bingo Classroom Bundle is here to rescue you and your students. Play the game with up to 40 students at one time. They learn great pieces of art and have fun doing it. Many ways to play. Enjoy!
But do the art pieces studied in ARTK12’s American Art History books actually exist? The conspiracy theories abound! But today a person in the real world offers definitive proof of real art in real life! Buckle your seat belt, Dorothy, ’cause Kansas is going bye-bye.
A high school teacher calls ARTK12’s online games: “Dumb Art Games.” Has he no shame! See our letter and his response. Must see blogging!
Miss Lucy, as her students call her, has been teaching Art History to homeschooled students for the last few years. She uses ARTK12’s curriculum to teach all her classes. Find out why.
The new art history books covers are now published and the books with the new covers are available on Amazon.com.
Over the course of the next year ARTK12 will be offering four free lessons from both American Art History: Volume I and American Art History: Volume II. Just to be clear, get ready for this folks, that’s eight free lessons. Yup, you heard it right (or read it right) and read it here first. Eight! Ocho!
Two works of fiction that I highly recommend highlight eras in ancient history and highlight ancient works of art. It is a rare combination, but author Marjorie Cowley is a master at both engaging and teaching children. I use both these books in my art history classes and highly recommend them for any excursion into…
In the third volume of my American Art series, I introduce James Hoban’s original drawing of the White House. Students learn about Hoban and the different architectural components of the White House, and complete a copy of Hoban’s drawing. Lego’s Architecture Series A fabulous accompaniment to this lesson is Lego’s White House in their Architecture…
After finishing the first volume of my American Art series, I recommend to my students here in San Diego that they go visit the Heritage of the Americas Museum at Cuyamaca College in El Cajon (a suburb of San Diego, see map of museum location). Impressive Collection This museum has one of the most impressive…
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Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, former curator and Fellow for Research at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston wrote an essay entitled Why Exhibit Works of Art? Throughout my art history and teaching career, this essay has been pivotal in developing my own philosophy of art. His ideas go against much of what passes as art education…
Just as the works of early American artists can be accessible to young students, so can real works of early American literature. A local teacher that I work with asked if I could expand my companion reading list to include literature, thus making the curriculum a full humanities curriculum. After searching through the literature currently…
