The Usual Friday Bits and Pieces

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2nd Grade, Wet Felting

Originally posted on The heART of life:
This week in Art, our 2nd Graders got to explore the art of wet felting, one of my favorite art materials for its tactility and transformative quality.  Our second graders loved the process of turning fluffy wool fibers into squishy wet felt. Students began by choosing 2 different colored wisps…

Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon: Inventor of the Modern Fashion Show

Originally posted on A R T L▼R K:
Lucile in 1919, photographed by Arnold Genthe; Photo credit: Wikipedia On the 13th of June 1863, Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff-Gordon (née Sutherland), best known as ‘Lucile’, was born in London, England. She gained recognition as a leading fashion designer in the late nineteenth and the early…

Thursdays Doors (On Friday)

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Random Group Generator

Originally posted on ICT Across the Curriculum:
Having talked about random name generators – a quick reminder that SMART notebook has a good tool for generating random groupings which can fit well into a SMART presentation. The SMART generator is available straight from the Lesson Activity Toolkit in the SMART notebook programme itself. Well worth looking at…

NYC 2014: First Day Photo Dump

Originally posted on Art Education Outside The lines:
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Graffiti #10

Originally posted on ArtClubBlog:
Artist: Unknown Location: Toronto Photo: Bella Manu Beautiful message, fabulous vintage look, what more can I say.

Veterans’ Blogs Offer a Glimpse into Life on the Front Lines

Originally posted on WordPress.com News:
Last week was the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the start of the Allied landing in Normandy, France, that contributed to the end of World War II. While some marked it with (deserved) pomp and circumstance, we observed it by reading the latest from some of our favorite veterans’ blogs…

Mary Cassatt as Muralist

Originally posted on A R T L▼R K:
On the 14 of June 1926, American Impressionist expatriate Mary Cassatt died in Château de Beaufresne, near Paris, at the age of 82. Usually remembered as a painter of sentimental images of mothers and children, Cassatt is not generally considered as an artist of radical beliefs.…

NYC 2014: Day Two Photo Dump

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