"Do we get to paint today?!!"

These words are a familiar echo through the halls outside almost any elementary art teacher's room. The kids are lined up, necks craning to see what materials are on the tables, or they've spotted the tell-tale apron smeared with color and they think it can only mean one thing: Painting! I do love painting and it IS my media of choice for my personal artwork, but I, like all other art educators, strive to engage my students with a wide variety of art media, art history, content connections and technology. In other words, there's a whole lot more than painting that happens in the art room, and I'd like to chronicle some of that in this blog.