Benjamin Klein
I love when I walk into one of our schools and see dazzling art on our walls. It makes me feel like we are doing our job by sharing serious work from world class artists in communities that don’t get to engage with contemporary art too often. Benjamin Klein has…
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Educator Showcase: Alexj
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. Hi! I’m Alexej. I’m a concept artist, game dev, and instructor born and raised in the cornfields of the midwest. In 2017 my kernels drifted in the wind to Los Angeles, where I attended OTIS College of Art and Design…
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Project Snapshot: Still Alive Still Life
Digital Art Shuffle™: Kids Still Alive Still Life Overview: Students create an illustrated digital still life featuring cartoon objects with facial features and expressions. Essential Skills: Learn to represent objects in a stylized way. Discover how to create cartoon facial expressions. Explore the art of Still Life Illustration. Vocabulary +…
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Student Showcase: Walter
Tell Us a Little About your Journey as a Young and Developing Artist? Well, I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember. So I can’t really say where that journey begins. Though I can definitely say it is far from being over. I actually have a lot…
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Team Showcase: Shannon McGillick
Tell us a little bit about you and your background I was born and raised in South Jersey to my wonderful parents Noreen and Thomas, alongside my two older brothers Kevin and Christopher. My passion for the arts was ignited by the nurturing influence of my mother, who…
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Improving Mental Health Through the Arts
The relationship between the arts and mental health is well established and there is growing evidence that the arts can be used to help people with anxiety, depression and other issues that impact us. Making art as a form of mental health treatment dates back to the mid-20th century, when soldiers returning from…
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