Show Us Your Art Room 2010: Space Organizing

Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by Hillary Andrlik + Theresa McGee in All Posts, Cool+Creative, Organization and Preparation

It’s another school year and we know most of our readers have been busy preparing their art classrooms to inspire and organize their students. Did you create a genius new system for storing sketchbooks? Or is your storage room an original work of art that maximizes every inch of space available? Then we want to see it.

Wouldn’t it be amazing to see the organizational solutions used by other art educators for supplies, artwork and more? Well this is your chance to share your art space solutions… and see others.

By September 25, send a photo of your art classroom organization to info@theteachingpalette.com. We’ll compile all the art classroom photos into one showcase post and in our Flickr photo stream. Take a look at last years “Art Room Showcase 2009″.  We’ll also feature three lucky photos on our home page as the new “cover art” for The Teaching Palette.

It doesn’t matter what level you teach, we want to see how you organize your space. No art classroom space is too small or too large to share. In the end, we hope to provide an abundance of solutions in an online gallery to help art teachers around the globe get inspired to organize their own spaces. Start opening those drawers, cabinets and storage closets and snap some photos!

How to send your organizational tip:
Snap a photo and send it as an attachment to info@theteachingpalette.com with the subject line Art Room Organization. Include your name, school, town, state and brief description of the photo.

Art Room Showcase 2009

Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by Hillary Andrlik + Theresa McGee in All Posts, Cool+Creative, Educators in Art, Organization and Preparation

When we launched The Teaching Palette back on September 29, 2008 (almost one year ago), one of our goals was to create a place where other art educators could share their ideas and successes.  With the start of the new school year, we came up with the “Show Us Your Art Room” feature.

Well, here it is… the creative spaces submitted by art educators around the globe and assembled into one Art Room Showcase (2009 edition). We hope art teachers will be inspired for their own spaces!

In addition to any comments you leave here, we’d like to encourage you to also leave comments in the flickr art room gallery.  Below is a nifty Flickr widget highlighting some of the art room entries.  Click any image for a close-up.

Thank you to the following art educators who shared images of their 2009 art spaces:

  1. Laura Carey (winner, as seen on our home page – the shopping cart)
  2. Myrna Ellison (winner, as seen on our home page – the castle)
  3. Matt Cauthron (winner, as seen on our home page – the digital studio)
  4. Lori Wilson
  5. Elizabeth Burns
  6. Frank Curkovic
  7. Brooke Nicholson
  8. Tara Conover
  9. Tricia Fuglestad
  10. Denise Pannell
  11. Jessica Houston
  12. Emily Valenza
  13. Tana Puppe
  14. Susan Bivona
  15. Katie Balla
  16. Keith Chapman
  17. Matt Cauthron
  18. Amy Kratochvil
  19. Kristen Grzemski
  20. Carol Frueh
  21. Katie Jarvis
  22. Myrna Ellison
  23. Christy Branham
  24. Katherine Malone-Smith
  25. Maria Smith
  26. Laura Carey
  27. Julie Vladika
  28. Theresa McGee
  29. Hillary Andrlik
  30. Brooke Nicholson

Do you have an art space to share? We can add it to our Flickr pool! Email photos to info@theteachingpalette.com

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Show Us Your Art Room!

Posted on 12. Aug, 2009 by Hillary Andrlik + Theresa McGee in All Posts, Clean-up and Transition, Clssrm Mgmt, Organization and Preparation, Tools and Miscellaneous

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It’s that time of the year again.  Over the next couple weeks, most of our readers will be preparing their art classrooms for the new school year.  Wouldn’t it be great to see the creative spaces of other art teachers around the country… or around the world for that matter?  Well this is your chance to share your art space… and see others.

By September 15, send a photo of your decked-out art classroom to info@theteachingpalette.com. We’ll compile all the art classroom photos into one showcase post.  Think HGTV for the art classroom.  We’ll also feature one or two lucky photos on our home page as the new “cover art” for The Teaching Palette.

Regardless of what level you teach, we want to see what you have done with the space you were given, even if it is on a cart or in the corner of a gym. In the end, we hope to receive enough photos to make a healthy online gallery so art teachers around the globe can be inspired for their own spaces.  Now go snap some photos!