Art Class Curator
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Art Class Curator is dedicated to empowering you to embrace teaching art with works of art. Explore art teacher tips, discover new art and innovative art lessons to make art history and art appreciation fun for you and your students!
Art Class Curator
9M ago
I don’t know about you, but this summer has felt so far like a bit of a mess. Whether it record heat waves or smoky air that sends you into a coughing fit after stepping outside, things just feel a little bit harder and less light than they usually do for me. So after spending some time thinking about ways to cheer myself up, I remembered that one thing that always helps me when I am down is connecting with Art.
Art has been my touch point my whole life. The thing that makes me feel the most like myself. It’s my safe space.
To foster my own connection to art and to give me an opportunit ..read more
Art Class Curator
10M ago
After my Art and Self podcast conversations, I often say “wow that was my favorite one” and looking back I have a lot of favorites as each conversation is so rich and layered, but this one may be THE favorite.
My art discussion about Dance of the Nine Opals by Ithel Colquhuon with Geoffa Fells about art and emotion and neurodiversity and music and how all of those intersect still give me chills when I think about it a month after having this conversation.
Geoffa has dissociative identity disorder and works within this system of self to explore these parts of herself as an artist ..read more
Art Class Curator
11M ago
After episode 117 with Kate Wurtzel, we realized we had been looking at a cropped image, and because of this we had more to say! In this episode, we have a blast geeking out about art philsophy, the idea of the artist as genius, the artist as a healer, following intuition, experimentation, and much more. I have so much fun talking to Kate again, and I hope you enjoy this conversation with her as much as I did.
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Kate’s Website
Art Connection Circle
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Art Class Curator
11M ago
This week I’ve gotten the delightful experience to witness the joy of creation through my 13-year-old daughter. That, plus my musing on the book Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey, have made me think more about the ways in which I am not following my own advice and how I can give myself a deeper permission to create without the burden of capitalism on my shoulders.
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Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey (affiliate link)
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Art Class Curator
11M ago
Amanda Koonlaba is a blogger and art teacher who has been running her blog “Party in the Art Room” for more than a decade. In this episode, Amanda and Cindy discuss One Woman Show by Celeste Rapone through our lenses as mothers, educators, and creatives. As former art teachers, we talk about the importance of arts integration and how art can help face uncertainty.
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Party in the Art Room – Website, Facebook, and Instagram
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Art Class Curator
11M ago
I’ve been talking about it for a while, but I’m finally sharing my painting I made! In this episode, I talk about the vulnerable process of sharing and creating this painting as well as what benefits I get from knowing myself better.
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Animal Apothecary Oracle Card Deck (affiliate link)
Art and Self on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube
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Art Connection Meditation
In this free meditation, take the time to connect with your deepest self and find yo ..read more
Art Class Curator
1y ago
Daniel Popper’s Chasm is one of my favorite works of art as there are sooooo many rich, personal connections to be found. I was delighted Dr. Charryse Johnson, therapist and author of Expired Mindsets: Releasing Patterns That No Long Serve You Well (affiliate link), chose it as the artwork to focus on. We talked about a lot in our discussion from how we change and grow as we age, to how we adopted stories from a variety of sources that aren’t really who we are, how we can explore our own inner selves, and how we can break away from any ‘expired mindsets’ that may be holding us ..read more
Art Class Curator
1y ago
In this episode, We flip the script on the podcast this week as my guest, Dr. Kate Wurtzel, chooses and presents the art choices. t was so fun to have it flipped on me, and the artworks she chose are right up my alley. I absolutely loved this delicious conversation about painting through the lens of Byzantium by Jenny Saville.
Kate definitely made me want to paint during this conversation!
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Artwork Choices
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Art Class Curator
1y ago
In this episode, I talk about how I am working to overcome my perfectionism in my art, writing, and business–taking inspiration from Simone Seol’s Garbage Post Challenge (Joyful Marketing Podcast Episode #160) and Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts” (in her book Bird by Bird) .
Perfectionism stops my creativity in its tracks. In this episode, I discuss how I have taken these messages to heart by taking time to experiment, to play, and to create without any expectations of the outcome.
When we let go of our need to be perfect, we open ourselves up to our authentic selves, and this is ..read more
Art Class Curator
1y ago
In this episode, photographer Kelly Ferguson and I discuss the artwork Desire by Miss Meatface aka Kat Toronto. This artwork captures the complexities of identity in a single photograph. In the conversion, we discuss the layers of influence a person goes through as they express their identity, themes of blending in and standing out, how to capture a person’s true essence on camera, and the freedom of expression of womanhood across generations.
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Artwork Choices
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Art and Self on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube
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