March 2012: Youth Art Show @ The Jefferson Center. This year's theme is "Mapping the Unknown." Please try your best to have your students participate. We are expecting to install on February 26.
Map Resources: (Follow links to view the books on Amazon)
In The Map as Art, Harmon collects 360 colorful, map-related artistic visions by well-known artists—such as Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Olafur Eliasson, William Kentridge, and Vik Muniz—and many more less-familiar artists for whom maps are the inspiration for creating art.
In each spread of this bold and humorous picture book, available for the first time since 1995, children can examine their place in the world around them through detailed and engaging maps. Twelve beautifully illustrated maps such as Map of My Day and Map of My Tummy will fascinate children. When finished reading the book, children can unfold the jacket -- it turns into a poster-size map!
Plus....
This month's FREE digital edition of School Arts magazine has a great elementary lesson included called Mapping the Heart. Click on the title to see the digital edition of the magazine. By the way, the digital edition is always free. On the main site, you can find lots of digitized back issues where you explore lots of different lesson ideas!
