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The Value of Independent and Exploratory Art

A vibrant exploratory art painting with various geometric shapes and swirls in multiple colors, dominated by red, blue, and yellow.

I wanted to explain to you how our art class periods are structured.  Students have art twice a week for 40 minutes.  Typically, we start with a 5 minute art warm up drawing in a sketchbook.  Then we move to instruction, demonstration, art history or literature connections.  Finally, for the majority of the time, the students work on their artwork.  Students work at all different paces.  Some students work very quickly and others take as much as double the amount … Read more…

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