SchoolArts: Locker Project & TABology

The March issue of SchoolArts magazine is out and it features not one but two articles out of Apex High School. How very exciting!

What's in Your Locker?
The first article is about our locker project. In class, we talked about space and how artists utilize space when creating art. Then we took advantage of the empty lockers in our school. nobody uses those lockers.. not till now!

Read the Locker Project online!

High School TABology
The second article talks about incorporating TAB at the high school level. Sure, there are plenty of "how to" publications on elementary TAB but not so much at the HS level. This article addresses TAB vs choice based teaching and explains w what teaching TAB in high school really looks like.

Read TABology online!

Art of Apex X2 in SchoolArts Magazine!

The February issue of SchoolArts Magazine features not one but two articles spotlighting the Art of Apex! 

Teaching Students to Think Like Artists

The first article, titled Teaching Students to Think Like Artists is an in depth look at the grading and blogging policy being implemented in several of our art classes. The article, co-written by Ms Purtee and Mr Sands features a blog post written by current Apex Art student Rachel Layko. You can check out Rachel's blog here! You can read the entire article online. Click here!

Masking Tape Murals

The second article highlights the masking tape murals that were created last year by our own Art of Apex students! This three page spread features four full color photographs of the art that donned the Apex halls and walls. You can read this article online and view all the images by clicking here!

SchoolArts Magazine Article : Interactive Murals

 

The digital edition of the SchoolArts Magazine article written by Apex students Sarah Muzzillo and John Michael Santos is now online. The article covers the work of Art One students who filled the courtyard of our school with interactive murals. 

Each mural left an empty spot where someone could pose with the work while their friends snapped some photos. In this way the person taking the photo becomes the artists and the photo becomes the work of art. Mind-blowing, I know!  

Read the article to find out more!!

Below, are a few more pics on the interactive chalk murals...

Check out more Interactive Chalk Murals, click here!

Read the SchoolArts article here!

SchoolArts Publishes Apex Project

 

SchoolArts Magazine published an article about a collaborative project Apex students worked on a few summers ago. How exciting! You can read the article online here.

You can learn more about the Lost Critter Project here.

You can read other Apex related articles published by SchoolArts Magazine including Digital Grading, Beyond The Pencil and the Post-it Note Mural  here, here and here.

Digital Grading : SchoolArts Magazine : Blogging

Today, the Art One classes spent the day in the computer lab creating thieir blogs. Students use these blogs to post images of their work, to write about their progress, and to comment on other student's art.

I use these blogs to grade...

Yes, that's right. I grade digitally. No more stacks of artwork or piles of paintings. 

I could tell you all about it but while we were in the computer lab, setting up our blogs, a funny thing happened. I received an email from Schoolarts Magazine. The October issue is out.. and guess what?

There is an article in it by me! And not just any article but one about... wait for it... digital grading!

What great timing!

So check out the article! Here is a link! -->
http://www.schoolartsdigital.com/schoolarts/201210#pg17

SchoolArts Magazine

Beyond the Pencil



Check out the May issue of SchoolArts Magazine for an exciting article titled Beyond The Pencil!

The article features two Apex HS Art projects, the Mud Project and Bricks as Pixels. Read the article online right here, right now!

Hot Off The Presses

This weekend I, along with more than 2,000 other art teachers, visited Seattle for the 2011 National Arts Educator Conference.

At the entrance to the exhibition hall was the SchoolArts booth. They were giving away copies of the April edition which just so happens to have Apex HS Art on the cover.



The booth looked fantastic with your art spread across the tables.

School Arts Magazine

Not only did School Arts Magazine publish our post-it note art story... we made the front cover!



To celebrate this event, here is the release of a time-lapse video titled, Apex HS Post It Mural Project


Apex HS Post It Mural Project from iansands on Vimeo.


Apex High School students created this mural of John Lennon using Post-its. This project took about a week to create but you can watch the entire process here in only minutes.