Eve Andree Laramee

http://evelaramee.com/

http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag02/julaug02/laramee/lar.shtml




"I am interested in the ways in which cultures use science and art as devices or maps to construct belief systems about the natural world. I try to draw attention to areas of overlap and interconnection between artistic exploration and scientific investigation, and to the slippery human subjectivity underlying both processes. Through my work I speculate on how human beings contemplate and consider nature through both art and science in a way that embraces poetry, contradiction and metaphor."

Making Artist's Trading Cards

A TED talk about cartooning

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/30/donnelly.cartoons/index.html?hpt=C2
http://www.nywici.org/features/blogs/aloud/liza-donnelly-may-have-coolest-job-title-new-york

“I started submitting cartoons when I was in college,” Liza says, “but of course didn't sell them.” After graduation she moved to New York and started submitting cartoons on a regular basis “by going down to the offices and handing an envelope of my work to the receptionist of The New Yorker's editorial offices. This is how it was done, and I don't remember how I learned the ropes!” Two years later, the magazine finally bought one of her cartoons. She sold more cartoons over the next 2 years and eventually was able to quit her job and become a full-time freelancer. She is one of a handful of women cartoonists to work for regularly the magazine; in 2005 she wrote a history of her colleagues over the decades: Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons.

Artist's Trading Cards

http://www.artjunction.org/atcs.php


This is a link on how to use ATCs in your classroom

Here is a link to the web page of M.VÄNÇI STIRNEMANN-The person credited with the revival/reinvention of ATCs in 1996

http://www.artist-trading-cards.ch/index.html

 

This image was taken from the Artjunction page listed above

New DOE Director-Jason Glass

http://www.kcrg.com/news/tothepoint/To-The-Point-The-Iowa-Department-of-Education-114377534.html

What Kids Can Do

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