New Releases by Eric Gibbons

Bi-annual art education lesson resources series building upon the pedagogy presented in the book "Art Ed Guru."

Bi-annual art education lesson resources series building upon the pedagogy presented in the book "Art Ed Guru."

A juxtaposition by an artist that speaks to our experience during this global event. Great as a gift or remembrance of this shared global experience. Keep it as a journal, give it as a gift, use it to pass the time. A portion of the sales will be donated to food banks during the crisis.

Recognizing the critical role of arts education in the development of creativity across subjects, apexart is devoting its next exhibition to the work of New York City high school students. Assembled from arts programs across the city, the drawings, paintings, and sculptures in this show attest to the expressivity that follows from the assertion of spaces for creative learning. Following a dismal report from the New York City Comptroller in 2014 that described arts in New York City schools as "inequitable and underfunded," the City of New York has allocated $23 million annually to improve access to the arts in grades K-12 citywide. Measurable strides have been made in recent years, and yet despite the recent and unexpected congressional defense of the National Endowment for the Arts, which includes funds for arts education, support for the arts remains under long-term threat. With this exhibition, apexart underscores the crucial value of arts education - not just in schools across the city - but throughout the United States. -- https://apexart.org/arteducation.php.

"This economic black and white edition contains fifty differentiated art lessons for K-12 students, with extensions for advanced classes. Many include links within lessons that will connect to mini-video tutorials. Most explorations in his book can be done with different kinds of media. Don''t have oil pastels? Use crayons, colored pencils, or just about any drawing media. Taking a drawing project and re-tooling it to be a painting lesson is often possible. Use what you have on hand. These are lessons I have developed over my thirty-year art teaching career. I specifically chose these fifty, because the root of each can be simplified for younger students, and beefed up for the more advanced. This is also helpful while working in an integrated classroom where special needs students work alongside their peers. While a class works on a particular lesson, the simplified version can be used as well so that all can work on the same root concepts. These lessons appear in our other book "Extended Sub Plans For Art Teachers." However, this book is designed with the classroom art teacher in mind, so it does not include media tutorials needed for a sub. This book ends with critique worksheets, grading rubrics, classroom resources, and enough sub plans for 25 days of absences! Many additional free resources, videos, plans, and more can be found on the author''s blog at Artedguru.com"--Amazon.com.

"Each teacher has emulated an artist of his/her choosing from history and a famous global landmark in a way that honors the work of that artist. By combining art, history, geography, poetry, and language, this book becomes a unique gift and resources for art lovers of all ages. Art genres from the Renaissance era to modern works are represented. Our art teachers, from elementary level to high school, created these delightful illustrations to share and educate"--Back cover.

Each page of this educational children''s book contains a beautiful aquatic-themed art piece created by one of 35 art teachers from all over the world who have all chosen a famous artist to emulate. A great tool for intercurricular teaching, this book combines art history, marine biology, and poetry that is informative and entertaining. Also included are icons placed under each picture to indicate whether the creature is thriving, threatened, endangered, critically endangered, or extinct. The art and poetry will educate children about the rich traditions of art history as well as inspire kids to learn more about the famous artists that are honored on every page.

This is the teacher''s companion edition to the book, "Advanced Art Student''s Workbook" and includes 20 benchmark exams for higher level art students. The book also permits the buyer to make copies for their students. While the student edition is an 8 x 10 format, This teacher''s edition is 8.5 x 11 in. format for ease of duplication. This book offers a novel, choice based approach to art education for students who have advanced beyond introductory courses and have expressed an interest in digging deeper into fine art. This fills in the gap between introductory classes, and AP Studio Art. This book is intended for a high school audience but may be appropriate for advanced middle school levels with more intense explorations in fine art. Students are guided to explore thirteen major historical movements from the Renaissance (1400s) through contemporary Pop Art. They gain an understanding of each era''s mindset, methods, and themes, to create their own personal works of art inspired by these explorations. The workbook is meant to be written in and becomes a journal and portfolio of personal exploration and study. Assessments, progress checks, and grading rubrics are contained, as well as supplemental information students will find helpful as they explore perspective, figure proportions, media expectations, and timelines. Created and written by Eric Gibbons, award winning art educator in New Jersey, he is the author of dozens of art education books and articles for Firehouse Publications. With more than 25 years of classroom experience, his resources are all tested in a public school setting, and used by teachers around the world. His blog, Art Ed Guru, is visited by thousands daily.

This book offers a novel, choice based approach to art education for students who have advanced beyond introductory courses and have expressed an interest in digging deeper into fine art. This fills in the gap between those introductory classes, and AP Studio Art. (High School) The TEACHER''s Edition contains 20 performance based benchmark exams and permission to make copies for students, titled "Advanced Art Teacher''s Workbook."Students are guided to explore thirteen major historical movements from the Renaissance (1400s) through contemporary Pop Art. They gain an understanding of each era''s mindset, methods, and themes, to create their own personal works of art inspired by these explorations. The workbook is meant to be written in and becomes a journal and portfolio of personal exploration and study. Assessments, progress checks, and grading rubrics are contained, as well as supplemental information students will find helpful as they explore perspective, figure proportions, media expectations, and timelines.Created and written by Eric Gibbons, award winning art educator in New Jersey, he is the author of dozens of art education books and articles for Firehouse Publications. With more than 25 years of classroom experience, his resources are all tested in a public school setting, and used by teachers around the world. His blog, Art Ed Guru, is visited by thousands daily.

Este libro fue hecho, escrito e ilustrado por 50 profesores de arte de todo el mundo que comparten la pasión por la historia del arte y la enseñanza. Después del éxito maravilloso del primer libro de Gibbons "Si Picasso Tuviera un Árbol de Navidad", este libro fue creado consecuentemente. Cada profesor ha imitado un artista en la historia del arte de su preferencia y ha incluido un animal de una manera que honra el trabajo del artista. Combinando arte, historia, ciencias (zoología) y poesía, este libro es un recurso único para la enseñanza intra-curricular. Una combinación única de géneros de arte se ha usado, desde el Renacimiento hasta la era moderna, expresando los animales en un zoológico. Estos maestros, de nivel elemental hasta la educación secundaria, crearon estas ilustraciones maravillosas para compartir y educar. La información de cada artista y el autor está al final de este libro si quiere comprarlo o una pieza original de arte. Sr. Gibbons creó los poemas de casa pieza de arte en el libro. También hemos compartido lecciones gratis que pueden imprimir y compartir con estudiantes de todas las edades. Es una forma buena de introducir a otros a la rica historia del arte mundial.

本书的构思，写作和插画是由50位充满艺术热情的美术教师集体完成，这是继"如果毕加索有棵圣诞树"的系列丛书之二。美术教师们精心挑选出有代表性的著名艺术家，模仿其名作并改编。以动物为主题，结合美术，历史，科学（动物学）和诗歌。这种独特的艺术风格的组合，编著了这本极有参考价值的美术历史课程教学的独特资源。这些美术教师来自世界各地，从小学到高中，虽然天各一方却都拥有一颗共同分享艺术历史和教学激情的心。如果对其作品有兴趣，教师们的联系方式在书的最后几页。Eric Gibbon''s 先生是本书英文诗歌的作者。经Yanlin Premo(李妍霖）女士翻译成中文诗歌形式。李女士不但是一位美术教师，同时也是很有经验的中文教师。由于诗歌有押韵及其格式的要求。不是完全直译，但尽量接近原作。希望美术爱好者能够通过插画和诗歌的欣赏，了解名家的生平和作品风格， 并且提高美术鉴赏的能力。

This book was conceived, written, and illustrated by over 50 art teachers from all over the world who share a passion for art history and teaching.

Each page of this black and white edition has an image to complete in some fun and unexpected way. You can see some wonderful examples of artists who do this today like Christoph Niemann, Tatiana Khlopkova, or Hyemi Jeong. Feel free to use this book as a sketchbook, turn it in any direction you feel works for your idea. Teachers can cut the spine, and start a bin of images to be completed when students finish regular class work early. This book is available in either full color, or black and white, based on your budget. It is just a starting point and may inspire you to take some photos on white backgrounds yourself and play with the same concept on your own. Most of the images were taken by photographer Dongkui Lin, and others were taken from the Wikipedia Commons, a great source for copyright free images.A FULL COLOR version is also available.

Paintings and artworks in other media featuring Christmas trees, created by art teachers in imitation of the styles and techniques of famous artists from the Renaissance to the present, and accompanied by rhyming text, introduce art history.

This book is organized by genre, so painting and drawing ideas are put first, sculpture is next, followed by clay, and photography. The books ends with 88 sketchbook ideas that can be turned into daily drawing projects, or used when a project finishes too quickly. Total, this book includes 225 great ideas under one cover. We know budgets are often tight, so all our lessons are open to interpretation. If you don''t have plaster, the sculpture can be made in paper mache. If you don''t have acrylics, often watercolor or tempera paints will be a good alternative. You can even re-imagine projects that we have listed as drawing or painting and do them as a sculpture, and vise versa. Many sculpture projects can be done in clay, this is why our clay-specific lessons may seem limited. Be open to creative possibilities and you will find several years of lesson ideas here. This book is a consolidation of lessons from our art education publications, plus lessons we have created for our own summer camp program. Some may be completed in a day, some will take longer. We will not include crafting directions that are easily obtained on the internet, but will include a link to pages we feel are helpful. Some lessons may be craft-based but will have a fine art "twist" so that projects are more personal and expressive.

This book, with inner pages in black and white, aims to help core content teachers integrate art into their content to help with deeper understanding on multiple sensory levels. I encourage you to seek out your certified art teachers for advice and guidance. This book however was designed with the non-art teacher in mind, but may also be helpful to those who home school, have an integrated curriculum, or the art teacher seeking to more overtly include core content projects into their lessons while still meeting the demands of their own curriculum.

This is a sketchbook... Each page has a suggestion for a drawing project, feel free to try the ideas you like, change the ones that inspire you, or ignore them completely. It has been designed so that if you use inks that bleed, you will not ruin a drawing on the back of another page. If you use permanent marker you may wish to slip in another sheet of paper to prevent deep bleeding of inks to later pages. Teachers, feel free to cut the spine of this book and use these pages as hand-outs in a bin for when students complete regular project work too early and need something of quality to keep busy. This book was created by an artist and art teacher with over 20 years of experience to help students get some preliminary ideas and points of departure. Many of these concepts may spur on others for larger projects.

Art assessments includes various forms of art based evaluations from open ended responses, to traditional tests and quizzes, to daily class closure.

From FirehousePublications.com comes the elementary version of our bestselling book, The Art Student''s Workbook. This elementary version was created by a 20+ year certified veteran teacher and curriculum writer for classes in drawing, painting and sculpture designed for grades three through eight. The lessons are broad and easily adjusted to accommodate different grade levels, special needs students, and material appropriate for many environments from the school classroom, or home based instruction, to a fine arts camp program. It includes nearly three years worth of lesson ideas in painting, drawing, sculpture, and clay, project samples, vocabulary, worksheets, sample tests, research paper samples, grading rubrics, sketch and note taking pages, and short creative five minute writing assignments, critiquing pages, and daily closure statements to meet district observational requirements. This book is also a helpful aid in fulfilling State and Federal accommodation requirements (504/ IEP) by providing special needs students additional documented and written material that may be taken home. Every lesson is designed to be personal and expressive fine art. There are NO "crafty" projects or "cookie-cutter" lessons where everyone has the same outcome. This book stresses a "divergent thinking processes" approach and creative problem solving, with an art therapy undertone. Most lesson suggestions may be done in different media to work within tight budgets. Anecdotal evidence from the author''s guidance department indicates that students who take this course with this workbook are 50% less likely to fail standardized testing. These are real numbers that can grab the attention of your administration and Board of Education if you have the same results. These lessons combine information from core curriculum and merge it with fine art. Art is the meeting place for all subjects. When we grid-we use geometry. When we make sculptures-we use engineering. When we mix colors-we reveal information about physics. When we create illustrations for stories-we learn about literature. When we review the styles of art from da Vinci to Warhol-we teach history. Students not only come to understand the concepts, but use them, and manipulate them for deeper understanding on multiple sensory levels of thinking. This workbook is divided by multicurricula units so that this concrete connection to academic "core courses" is more easily seen. ALL projects are designed to have successful divergent results, incorporate creative problem solving, and bring relevant connections to students'' lives. This book is built for student success on many levels from gifted to challenged. This in turn is helpful in fulfilling mandated accommodations so that no child is left behind. We recommend that you pair this book with the student edition of the same name. For those that teach in middle or high school, find our other title, "The Art Student''s Workbook."

Economy Black & White Travel Edition (Even if the Amazon preview shows color photos inside, This version is BLACK & WHITE!) Great for writing notes as you go! This book is a guide and a diary of our 5000 mile, four week road-trip from California to New Jersey with a focus on seeing the best of America, and eating at some of the most noted restaurants along the way. We have also included information for those that would like to extend their own road trip to include New England sights through Cape Cod, MA. The total cost of the trip was about $10,000 for two people, including all meals, gas, lodging, park fees, light shopping, snacking, and gambling in Las Vegas. This book contains a GPS list of points and an address guide that follows our route and includes area restaurants and what their specialty items are. * Napa, CA * Russian River, CA * Sonoma, CA * San Francisco, CA * Yosemite National Park, CA * Carmel, CA * Pacific Coast Highway * Hearst Castle, CA * Los Angeles, CA * San Diego, CA * Las Vegas, NV * Hoover Dam, NV * Grand Canyon, AZ * Page, AZ * Monument Valley, UT * Moab, UT * Arches National Park, UT * Denver, CO * Loveland , CO * Kansas City, MO * St Louis, MO * Mammoth Cave, KY * Charlottesville, VA * Luray Caverns, VA * Washington, DC * Philadelphia, PA * Bordentown, NJ * Manhattan, NY * Mystic Seaport, CT * Boston, MA * Provincetown, MA. This same title is available in a full color edition as well.

This is a sketchbook, not an instructional manual, nor a replacement for good lesson planning. There is lots of empty spaces to fill with your drawings, sketches, and artwork... sometimes though a blank sketchbook leaves you feeling just as blank. Each right hand page has a creative idea to get you started. This is great for the student artist to build their skills and the professional artist to explore new ideas. Art teachers can cut the binding and use the sheets as hand-outs for those students who are done too early. This book has been designed so that if you use inks that bleed, you will not ruin a drawing on the back of another page. The author is an artist and art teacher with over 20 years of experience to help students get some preliminary ideas and points of departure. Many of these concepts may spur on others ideas for larger projects. The first few pages will include information and concepts that may help you complete the sketches in this book.

This is a journal, starting point for ideas, and catalyst for inspiration. You''ll find humor, irony, poignancy, and encouraging quotes by artists and historic figures throughout the ages.It is a place to document your year of creativity, or randomly respond to entries visually or by written responses, store your thoughts, and musings that might be applied to your creative endeavors.This should be considered a PG13 version, so not all the quotes are appropriate for all. For the "Kid Friendly" version please seek out ISBN 1477635416

Our society values good inventions by buying them or investing in the people and companies that make them. If you are reading this book it is likely that you have had a few ideas brewing and are wondering what the next step might be. We hope to share with you one option, inventing online.The main benefit to online inventing is the savings. Because these companies do all the work for you, they will keep the largest share, but your earnings will be significant, from 30% to 50%. Getting a patent, trademark, and copyright can be expensive, involve lawyers, time, and is essentially a full time job. Most people simply do not have that kind of time or collateral to invest in their idea properly. There are provisional patents that are inexpensive, but offer little long term protection and expire in one year. Then consider the production of an original working prototype. Even if all goes well, only about 3% of patents make it to market according to the US patent office.The authors of this book have experience inventing and using the online sites discussed here. Though our focus is on examining Quirky.com and Edison Nation, much of what is contained will apply to any reputable online invention submission site. We hope to help you navigate this complex world with tools to become a success.Authored by Eric Gibbons, Carla Leming, Matthew Murrie, Stacey Ritchie, Pete Wolf

THIS IS NOT THE CLASSROOM VERSION.This trade edition is not for use in an educational setting and has been created as a sample for school districts for review. Those wishing to use the information contained within this book must purchase a non-trade edition. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author and Firehouse Publishing, 8 Walnut Street, Bordentown, NJ 08505-1725

What They Didn''t Tell You in CollegeOften, teaching can be a whole different experience than what prospective educators have been told in college. This book provides "Real Life" experience from a teacher with 20+ years in the trenches and his colleagues.Teaching is NOT for everyone. It takes a special person with a lot of patience and organization to teach. Procrastinators will find themselves underwater in short order as well as in violation of the LAW in some cases.Teachers are scrutinized with background checks, finger printing and are on file with the FBI. Though Freedom of Speech is in our Constitution, there are some very real limits about what a teacher can and cannot say in the classroom or even outside the school or on the internet. These constraints may simply be too much for some.You will never be paid what your work is actually worth or the hours you really put in, and the politics of unions, parents, and administration can sour your enthusiasm. In many places, the whole profession of teaching is under attack as an easy/soft target to squeeze financially by cutting benefits and salaries.That said, the rewards are numerous as well. I make a comfortable middle-class salary. I still have students visiting me many years after graduation thanking me for my influence in their lives. I know I have saved several from the brink of suicide with the help of a guidance counselor; I have championed students who would otherwise be lost in the system, I have planted the seeds of my own content expertise and have witnessed the blossoming and growth in my students firsthand. I have affected lives for the better and some have become lifelong friends. Though I love my subject, it is because of some of these less tangible reasons I am a teacher.Second EditionCopy Editor RT Berry