A lovely story of random acts of kindness and art
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12:29 pm

November 30, 2011

by Robert Krulwich

He? She? It? Whoever it is, the Phantom Sculptor is suddenly back!
Book sculpture man standing outside
Enlarge Chris Scott/Flickr

As I recently reported, somebody has been dropping glorious little paper sculptures into libraries and museums all over Edinburgh, Scotland, and we’ve just heard (thank you, alert reader Paul Smith) that there are now three more.

And they will be the last.

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Elaine Cimino Studios is offering the Born to Draw Drawing for Holidays and Special Occasions
Children’s Drawing Workshop on Dec. 20th

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Building community through Arts projects is in
the 9th year of service to the Albuquerque, NM community!

Despite the doors being open for 9 years Off center Community Art Project was a surprise to me.
in the Afternoons and early evenings anyone can walk into OFFCenter and start making arts. Supplies are there for children and adults. Workshops are help in both arts and crafts

OFFCenter believes in artmaking as central to community building.

Shared creative expression leads to shared visions and the emergence of a compassionate collective life.

OFFCenter is a community artspace located in downtown Albuquerque. Home to a studio, gallery and sales shop, anyone in the community is welcome to come to OFFCenter to make and buy art.

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I was looking back at past students works from 1999 – 2006, at Santa Fe Community College. I was a drawing, painting and art history adjunct instructor and helped co-found, write grants and was the project director of the summer series program, Make Your Mark, that offered Visual and Performing Arts program college credit to high school students. We received a yearly $15,000 grant from the NEA and NMArts program.

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http://youtu.be/LQhSXcyDHLA

Under the banner of high-tech progress, corporate lobbyists have rammed through legislation privatizing K-12 education across the country.
in New Mexico http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/11%20Regular/final/SB0427.pdf

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Shel Silverstein

Years from Now
Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-off place
I hear you laughing —and I smile.
Shel Silverstein

The dedication of Shel’s new book of poems published by Harper-Collins grabbed me. The simplicity and elegance of his line drawings makes drawing look so simple putting a pen to paper or a stylus to a tablet. What I found creative about looking at the Harper-Collins webpage was that it also included classroom activities. Activity guide was created by Sue Ornstein, a first-grade teacher in the Byram Hills School District in Armonk, New York.

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http://youtu.be/iG9CE55wbtY

Education Reform animated video

ALEX TABARROK, a George Mason economist and blogger at Marginal Revolution, notes that though many more young Americans, about 50% more, now go to college than did 25 years ago, the number of students studying science, engineering, technology, or mathematics has not increased. So, Mr Tabarrok asks, “If students aren’t studying science, technology, engineering and math, what are they studying?” They are studying interesting and enjoyable fields, it turns out. Mr Tabarrok reports, with no little dread:

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