Art
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2024 – Reflecting on the Extraordinary
Reflecting on an Extraordinary 2024: A Year of Art, Achievement, and Adventure As I look back on 2024, I’m filled with gratitude for a year that has been nothing short of transformative. This year has been a vibrant journey through creativity, growth, and recognition—an odyssey that has taken me to unexpected places and challenged me…
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2023 Light at the end of the tunnel
Clarity brings prosperity is how I would sum up 2023. New doors opening to opportunities I dream to manifest, while old doors closing. Feeling the embodiment of that which I know is mine by divine right. 2023 had a balance of growth and celebration, of ritual and ceremony. Every day has been a ceremony. Mindfulness…
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NAEA Town Hall – Leading with Creativity
Town Hall The National Art Education Association Town Hall is a monthly panel discussion where educators come together to discuss a topic. Our topic was Leading with Creativity. NAEA and Crayola teamed up for the 75th anniversary of NAEA. They developed Creativity Week in January, and invited 75 teachers from around the world to be…
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Crayola Creativity Week
Crayola Creativity Week January 23rd – 29th, 2023 is Crayola Creativity Week! We are celebrating at Ridgely Middle School by doing creativity week activities in our STAG advisory groups. I am so excited about what the students will create today. There is a list of resources available at the Crayola Creativity Week website. I am…
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Reign Fancy
Fancy Fancy is such an interesting word. In my mind when I hear the word fancy I think dressed up, but fancy means a lot more than just how nice something looks. Fancy is defined as: elaborate in structure or decoration, also created from the imagination rather than from life. It comes from the word Fantasy,…
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Mindfulness and Art
Mindfulness is the practice of bringing one’s attention to the present moment and being fully present in the experience. It is a form of meditation that can be practiced in many different ways, including through art. You can bring this mindfulness to any task. I enjoy reminding myself of it when I have to do…
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AI – Artificial Intelligence
AI stands for ARTificial INTELligence. Art Intel. Let’s dive deeper into the language. Artificial Intelligence – the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. Artificial comes from the Latin artificialis, from artificium ‘handicraft’. The definition is made or produced…
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Art Speaks – Dream House Uganda
Dream House Uganda Dream House Uganda, founded in 2012, is a non-profit organization working directly with marginalized people such as girls and women, the elderly, street children and the disabled regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, gender and tribe streamlining programs that empowers, engages and supports them to transformative lives. Dream House is in eastern Uganda…
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Crayola Creativity Ambassador
What is a Crayola Creativity Ambassador? To celebrate the 75th anniversary, 75 NAEA members were selected for the opportunity to be early adopters of the January 2023 Crayola Creativity Week while participating in special leadership team-building experiences in preparation of the nationwide Creativity Week celebration. The National Art Education Association (NAEA) and Crayola Education partnered…
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CULTURE ON THE LINE
Back in August I completed an artist questionnaire to be featured on Culture on the Line’s Creative Five series. I discussed how life is my medium. Art is the journey of life. The expression of self. I really enjoy expressing myself through paint, photography, henna, writing, dancing and singing… among so much more. I share…
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