art @ the heart

I would like to thank all 45 000 of you who have stopped by here over the past few years, for sending so many encouraging messages to myself...

In order to entice elementary students to come to our high school, teachers were asked to give interviews about what made their classroom ...

These are actually from last semester.  They're multimedia pieces- you take photographs printed on a laser printer (or photocopier) and ...

Last week we were privileged to have my good friend Imad Ahdab come to our classes and talk about what it's like to be a Muslim and immi...

Congratulations to Anna Lennox who won 2nd place (the lamb) and Carolyn Diemert (the instruments) who won 1st place at this year's Walke...

This year I haven't focused on making new assignments for my students to do- with an upcoming maternity leave (yay!) I wanted to have th...

Some highlights from our newest batch of God's creatures.  Great work!

For this assignment, the students were asked to draw an object that is moving, with a dynamic pattern in the background.  The students who d...

These drawings are fantastic on the computer, but I wish you could see them up close- they're LARGE and even more impressive in person. ...

Here are some highlights of the grade 9-10 soapstone assignments that we did last month.  What I love is how different each carving is, even...