Educations Matters: Diverse Children's Book Reviews
Best art projects for kids using multimedia.
Ansel Adams: In Our Time at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is a sweeping look at how he portrayed the American Southwest and his influence and influences. This iconic visual legacy of Ansel Adams (1902–1984) also showed the history of the United States from racism in how Native Americans were portrayed to the internment…
In honor of my oldest daughter who will be heading to art school after gap year, I’m celebrating photographers in picture books. My daughter has been the force behind the photography of indigo clothing co., a company she started with her younger sister. There is nothing like trial by fire to learn photography. She started…
On Monday, my son’s 7th grade class began work on their Ancient Feast museum artifact projects. The Ancient Feast has been a tradition at F. A. Day Middle School for 36 years. While it has changed a great deal since its original inception, the Feast is a celebratory moment. Students work on their own or…
My daughter is going to art school and so today I dedicate this post to her and her future classmates celebrating strong, independent female artists! p.s. She won The Newton Art Association Scholarship and didn’t tell us she entered. Picture Books About Strong, Independent Female Artists Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines by Jeanne Walker…
Please welcome author Sandra Neil Wallace with her list of 10 Diverse Picture Books on Fine Artists. We are giving away 2 signed copies of her latest book, Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery. Please fill out the Rafflecopter at the bottom to enter. ———— Art is for…
My girls fell in love with glass blowing after going to Dale Chihuly’s exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. They took glass blowing lessons to learn and now they are able to rent time at a glass studio to create glass art on their own. We recently visited the Chihuly Garden and…
Need a craft to celebrate Chinese New Year 2018, The Year of the Dog? I made a cute puppy paper bag puppet that is also a game. Feed the puppy candies using chopsticks! Here’s how to make the puppy paper bag puppet. You will need: Lunch sized paper bag 1 piece each of brown, white,…