by Robin Brooks | Mar 3, 2026 | News and Events, Tai Chi with Robin, Teaching and Learning
Lines from Life 3, acrylic on canvas paper, 18 x 18″, 2026 Light and art–learning to see As one winter month rolls into the next and the full moon shines once again, I find myself in the studio. Currently I am working through the fifth exercise of the...
by Robin Brooks | Nov 13, 2025 | News and Events, Teaching and Learning
How creative ideas are born Where do our best, most creative ideas come from? I want to be clear that I’m not just speaking about ideas for art-making but also how we solve other problems confronting us. Creativity is a fundamental tool in the human toolbox that...
by Robin Brooks | Dec 18, 2024 | News and Events, Teaching and Learning
The challenge of children and collage In my years of teaching, I’ve noticed that children often choose to draw or paint rather than make a collage. On choice-based art teaching forums I’ve often heard art teachers talk about the challenge of inspiring...
by Robin Brooks | Nov 11, 2024 | News and Events, Teaching and Learning, Uncategorized
My Reggio Study Group Convenes On Tuesday evening, October 12, 2010, my Reggio Study Group gathered in Portland to start another year together. We had been calling ourselves the Portland Area Reggio Collaborative, or PARC for a couple of years already. A collection...
by Robin Brooks | Sep 28, 2024 | News and Events, Teaching and Learning
Playing with Abstraction: Nocturne Playing with abstraction, or simplifying form, has been the dominant mode of 20th century art, and in truth it is the way I see. I don’t see things in freeze frame like a photograph. But releasing the need for imagery is...
