Student art portfolio

$2 art portfolios you and your students can make.

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.

Storing art in a paper bag portfolio

“I would love to go to art school, but I don’t know where to start.” I hear this all the time and used to relate to that feeling. I now own my own company and work in the design field. But to get there, I first had to go through the process of applying to art school. Is it your dream to go to art school...

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 on March 6th which happens to be Elementary Open House night. The Texas theme is #BIGARTDAY and my art student's will be taking home the art works they created this year after displaying them on their classroom desks. Each student will also have a "Selfie" on display. I am in the process of creating 4 Art Themed Photo Booth too. Watch for that post next…

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

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

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…

Our Homeschool Co-op started back up again for the semester, and this time around I'm teaching Drawing with Children, based on the Mona Broo...

Celebrate each young author in your classroom with an end-of-year portfolio presentation and party to showcase all their hard work.