Student art portfolio

We've got a great project to share with you today! Not only are these paper bag art work portfolios fun to make, they are going to help you be organized this school year.

My youngest child’s school doesn’t have an art teacher on staff (hello, funding cuts) so a couple of years ago a group of parent and community volunteers started an art docent program t…

Captain Kirk on Instagram: "Please excuse my resting witch face, I realized halfway through filming I wasn’t smiling AT ALL 🤣 listen I filmed this between classes while I was thinking of a million things on my to-do list, I was zoned OUT. Anyway, here is how I make my student portfolios! We keep our portfolios stored by classroom and take them out when I return 2D artwork. The portfolios I make are for k/1, the big kids make their own. #elementaryartteacher #elementary…

Great blog post regarding the importance of honoring art. One way is to not send it home piecemeal stuffed in a backpack.

If you hate putting a memory book together, then I've got the solution for you! Plus, students are responsible for putting it together throughout the year.

We’ve put together some Ashcan Studio student's work - examples of the kind of excellent artwork top Art Schools & University Art Programs look for in an ideal potential student - and we talk about why each artwork is so successful. A good exercise is to pause at each image and think about or write down why you think they’re good portfolio pieces What do you think makes a good portfolio piece? What do you think makes some of these good? ashcanart.com @ashcanart

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Lindsay Smith on Instagram: "✨Silhouette Self Portraits✨ Every year on the first day of school we do school interviews and write down favorite things all about them. I saw this idea on Pinterest and thought it would be way more fun to turn our interviews into an art project! I love how they turned out! 😍 HOW TO: 🔦Tape a large piece of white paper to the wall and have your child sit next to it. Hold or set up a flash light (bigger one than mine will work better 😆) on the other side of…

Keep your artwork....or your kiddo's artwork safe!

Open House is next week which involves a lot of planning and organizing the art work. This year in Texas, we are celebrating the Arts...