the idea: create a pink elephant as an example for the puppet project You may or may not remember, but a few ideas back I had another puppet named Feathers. Today I taught the same activity and instead of ending up with a blue bird that went through a quest to find a bowler hat, I …
the idea: create puppets with my students and then have them put on a quick play Today, as I continued my class inspired by Asian art in the museum, I made animal puppets with my kids inspired by Chinese shadow puppet shows. Not only did this group make some great puppets, we also all made a …
the idea: teach a class with the supplies in my apartment I am sick. Again. It’s awful. As such, I haven’t had the most energy. On Tuesday, when snow caused my morning class and therefore my reason to go to the MFA to be cancelled, I had some quick thinking to do. I could either take …
the idea: do a drip painting, let it dry, then drip again. And again. And again. This is the last idea in a series inspired by the MFA’s February Vacation week. There have been art activities and children all over the museum and it has been wonderful. Tiring, but wonderful. Although I’ll be working again …
the idea: take a drip painting and cut it out Running a drop-in activity at the MFA means that sometimes there are so many people you can barely keep up and sometimes you’re sitting around waiting for someone to come around. For the past three days I’ve been working at the Free Moving Paint station …
the idea: make paintings using squeeze bottles and gravity I actually can’t take credit for this idea, it was thought of by someone else in the education department at the MFA, but seeing as I’ve already spent two full days teaching it and have two more to go I thought that I would include it. As …
Last Thursday I took a group of children to the MFA for a late night visit. By 6 o’clock, which is only the time that we get there, the children are typically already hungry and antsy after having been at school all day and then at the club for three hours. Despite this, they normally …
Like any good artist/thinker, every once in a while I have an existential crisis. Is there any point? Does looking at pretty pictures ever actually matter? Am I making any difference? Why should we do anything when in the end we all die and the earth gets blown up by the sun? That sort of …