December 2011
Elementary Education: Professor Mary Pat Garr
Please describe your role in the Elementary Education Department.
I have been the director of elementary student teaching. This yea..
Collagraph Printing and How to use it in the classroom
A tale of an IAEA Student Chapter Roundtable Presentation.
Before the IAEA Conference, my colleague in the Art Education MAT progra..
REMAIN CALM It’s Only Paper Writing Time
I took two years off between undergraduate and graduate school. We don’t write many papers in non-lit courses in the poetry program, a..
Get Sick, Think Quick
The assignment: Shoot and edit a two-minute video of someone doing something. (Preferably someone in the inte..
Nonfiction MFA Student Spotlight: Colleen O’Connor
Colleen O’Connor is a second-year graduate student in the Nonfiction program. She is an exquisite writer, someone who makes even the m..
Advanced Fiction: WTF Is A Steeplechase?!
Advanced is the fourth writing class in the Story Workshop. From my first semester, I heard people talking about the Steeplechase proj..
Critical Encounters Potluck (Part 3): Dorchester Project and Conclusions
The Critical Encounters Potluck series concluded on Chicago’s south side in the appropriate fashion for such an intense week–quiet, w..
Class Spotlight: Text
As a person interested, thoroughly, in making artist books, I often find myself using text in a lot of my work. I mean really, I love ..
Flip Flops in the Windy City: Current Projects
Periodically I like to fill anyone reading in on the current projects I’m working. Right now, there is an eclectic mix of film, trail..
Special Education in the Art Classroom
Students in the Art Education MAT program at Columbia College Chicago are required to take one class in the field of Special Education..