Student art portfolio

$2 art portfolios you and your students can make.

Get your students engaged in creating their own art portfolios to hold their creations throughout the year and tranpsort them home at the end of the school year! Let them express their own personalities on their DIY created covers.

Art looks great in a classroom and is a fun subject to teach, but storing student art can be hard to figure out as the school year goes on. I send home each assignment after

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

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

Storing art in a paper bag portfolio

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…

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.

Check out Savannah7963's artwork on Artsonia, the largest student art museum on the web. Don't forget to join the fan club and leave a comment on the website.

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…