by Robin Brooks | Jul 21, 2018 | News from the Studio, Teaching and Learning
We have some passionate young painters at Williams-Cone School. Making paint available very day allows the children to work over time. Look at the pastel colors in the round palette–all from the primaries plus white. Organizing student work with...
by Robin Brooks | Jun 10, 2018 | News from the Studio, Teaching and Learning
What does it mean to be a woman and an artist? How did being a woman affect my experiences as an art student in some of the most prestigious art schools in the country? Now that “Me Too” has exploded across the media, powerful women are talking about the...
by Robin Brooks | May 26, 2018 | Teaching and Learning, Uncategorized
I posted this meme from the Badass Teachers Association three years ago and it is still relevant. When their school work is all externally driven, teacher controlled and directed, children lose all sense of what motivates them. Rubrics like this one (left) have become...
by Robin Brooks | May 14, 2018 | News from the Studio, Teaching and Learning
On Saturday, May 12, which coincidentally was World Collage Day, I offered a three-hour collage workshop at the Harlow. The Tao of Collage starts with the One. The One: Take one sheet of black paper and make one cut. Arrange the paper, both positive and negative, on a...
by Robin Brooks | May 9, 2018 | News from the Studio, Teaching and Learning
Light through the Trees, Mixed Media Collage, 2017` My collages often include painted papers, bits of prints, direct stamp printing on the surface, under and over-painting with acrylics, charcoal drawing, and textured or printed papers. How many...
by Robin Brooks | Apr 21, 2018 | News from the Studio, Teaching and Learning
Stopping by the art room one morning on her way to kindergarten, Harper Marie, age six and a half, exclaimed out loud, “I wonder if you have imagination everywhere?” Harper and her sister Willow were absorbed with seeing what was on the walls and noticing...
