Teaching thinking in art

Here is a thoughtful article aimed at art teachers about teaching thinking skills in the art classroom http://www.artjunction.org/thought.php
The article can be downloaded in two parts - it is from a presentation by Dr. Craig Roland, of the University of Florida, at the 2001 National Art Education Association Conference in New York City.

The website has lots of other resources and useful links for teaching art - all ages, and using web 2.0 resources too http://www.artjunction.org/index.php Maybe share this with art teachers in your school ?

National Library has many wonderful picture books which are about artists and / or which reference artworks - and of course picture books are often works of art in themselves...

I shut my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see. Paul Klee