Art Bus Dubai

We took 1/3 Art Bus tours happening this weekend around the city. Here are a few inspiring art spaces from around the creek and Jumeirah.

Bean bags in a drawing corner of an art room?

Glad I am not driving!

NAEA 2013-Fort Worth!

It was great. NAEA national conventions are right up there with beach vacations. My fellow elementary art and I traveled in the plane for roughly 48 hours from Dubai to Fort Worth, giddy every step of the way. One week later and almost caught up with sleep, I am still thinking about 21st century learning skills, new ideas in technology, faculty art days, the clay lady, bricolage curriculum, and how I am going to bring Texas dancing to Dubai.

1st Grade Pinch Pots-with words!

Yesterday I used ipods with the 1st graders for the first time in this 30 minute lesson using wordfoto. They took pictures of their pinch pots and inserted their own descriptive words. I love the compositions that came out--and the spelling!