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Rama Hughes recently posted about the portrait party that my foundations class shared with Melissa Woodland's class from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania last year. I had posted the drawings that my students had done, but just realized that I never posted the...
As mentioned in the last post, our students recently returned from the farthest reaches of the Middle Kingdom, armed with nothing but their cameras and their wits about them*.
The students chose some of their favorite shots for a school photo...
I just got one of the best photography tips ever from a student in class today.
Our students came back last week from our "China Alive" field trips. The 9th and 10th grades travel in groups to various locations around China. I gave my students a...
If an elephant makes it, is it art?
Its hard to know what exactly is happening here. Clearly the elephants are painting. Are they receiving instructions from their keepers in the form of taps or whispers? Do they have a code that is used to...