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Art Room Showcase 2010: Space Organizing

Hillary Andrlik + Theresa McGee — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:59:17 +0000

Last year we asked our readers to send us pictures of their art rooms. The response was tremendous and our Flickr gallery really shined with your submissions! This year, we added a new twist! You gave us a closer look into what makes your art room work with bins, posters, drawers, and binders.

There were so many great ideas and unbelievably clever storage solutions that we had a hard time picking only three photos. Congratulations to our three winners Tara Conover, Jessica Houston and Amy Kratochvil for their creative organizational solutions! You can view their photos on The Teaching Palette’s homepage.

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Thank you to the following art educators who shared images of their 2010 art space organizational tips:

Tricia Fuglestad
Carleen Michener
Katie Jarvis
Jodi Youngman
Dawn Lagerstedt
Elizabeth Burns
Hannah Salia
Dusti Moran
Melissa Giglio
Cynthia Borne
Tisha Burke
Tara Conover
Denise Pannell
Sarah Brooks
Amy Kratochvil
Jeannette Anthos
Jennifer Leban
Kristen Peck
Kim Colasante
Clare Butler
Theresa McGee
Hillary Andrlik
Jessica Houston
LeAnne Poindexter
Samantha Melvin

If you would like to add your organization images to our Flickr set, we would be happy to add them! Send your photo, name, school, and brief photo description to info@teachingpalette.com.

Show Us Your Art Room 2010: Space Organizing

Hillary Andrlik + Theresa McGee — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:50:40 +0000

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.

UPDATE 9/27/10: Check out the fantastic submissions by our Teaching Palette Readers!

Art Room Showcase 2009

Hillary Andrlik + Theresa McGee — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:41:39 +0000

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:

Laura Carey (winner, as seen on our home page – the shopping cart)
Myrna Ellison (winner, as seen on our home page – the castle)
Matt Cauthron (winner, as seen on our home page – the digital studio)
Lori Wilson
Elizabeth Burns
Frank Curkovic
Brooke Nicholson
Tara Conover
Tricia Fuglestad
Denise Pannell
Jessica Houston
Emily Valenza
Tana Puppe
Susan Bivona
Katie Balla
Keith Chapman
Matt Cauthron
Amy Kratochvil
Kristen Grzemski
Carol Frueh
Katie Jarvis
Myrna Ellison
Christy Branham
Katherine Malone-Smith
Maria Smith
Laura Carey
Julie Vladika
Theresa McGee
Hillary Andrlik
Brooke Nicholson

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

Show Us Your Art Room!

Hillary Andrlik + Theresa McGee — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:10:27 +0000

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!