Nona Orbach
An art educator who works in an open studio setting encourages children’s choices and understands that showing the art is a part of the process. It is not a final assessed measured achievement! On the contrary, she tries to make it a part of the …
An excellent video by Sheila Graber that surfaces a transparent artistic process of a child from scribblings to drawing at 16. We have a universal developmental map researched by Rhoda Kellogg, Viktor Lawenfeld, Malka Hass, and Sylvia Fien. Fein was the one who noticed that …
I want to relate to table centers from my faraway perspective, Israel, and how we do it here when you have 35 kids going in and out every 45 minutes. I manage an 8K Hebrew study group, “Studio Visits,” for educators and art therapists interested …
What is my real task as an art educator? I teach a child to be more and more themselves. I grant permission and encourage independence of thought, style, pace, process, and collaborations. I understand my task as an assistant to human beings as they experience …
Malka Haas is one of the pioneers who researched children’s art at the beginning of the 20th century. She is also the inventor of the Junkyard that influenced countless kindergartens in Israel. It is an outdoor space for children to create mostly in groups. After …
A piece in the puzzle of art education history Malka Haas, 100 years these days, was born in Germany, immigrated to Israel in the thirties with the Youth Immigration Movement, and was among the religious kibbutz founders Sde-Eliyahu. She has been teaching at Oranim, The …
Even if you do not have a studio you can still create! Here is a suggestion for the creation of a series of paperwork. I often use this process. You can implement this basic idea of limiting conditions and series to your preference of medium. …
The Good Enough Studio Art Therapy Through the Prism of Space, Matter, and Action One of the book’s main threads is the idea of permission in therapy and education and how it also manifested in the language of materials and studio setting. …
In many kindergartens in Israel, there is typical disturbing behavior of children. They stop drawing and scribbling, and if they do, they become frustrated and say their drawings are ugly. In these kindergartens, coloring pages are given by the adults, parents, that sometimes draw an …
How, when, and what is the right time to suggest a technique or anything else to your students? Suggestions for a student can be fruitful but also intervention and even an impingement. How do we navigate this everyday process? I will share my thoughts in …