VUSD Visual Arts Show for Middle & High School
This year the VUSD Visual Arts show at the Civic Center will hold an opening reception on April 17. For VIDA Arts news be sure to follow...
Learning Through Play
Learning through play is a term that gets thrown around for littles a lot. I have a 3 year old and every preschool I looked at described...
How might we?
The first part of fall semester we have been exploring the question of how might we honor those we love that have passed on? 6-8th grade...
Spring (re)Design Expo
This year I worked with 2 other teachers and our principal Dr. Chagala to help improve our spring design expo. It takes the place of our...
The Chagalas! Our VIDA Academy Awards
At the end of last year the creative arts teachers met and developed an idea to have an "Academy Awards" style art night that would...
Design Camp 2018!
On a sunny Saturday at the end of January a few hundred educators traveled to HTH in Pt. Loma to participate in Design Camp! I attended...
Winter Design Expo!
We had to reschedule our Winter Design Expo for after the holidays because of the Lilac Fire in the Fallbrook area. We put our heads...
Vista Village Street Art
While my students were engaged in the Inside Out Project we looked at work by street artists and talked about what made something street...
Inside Out Project at VIDA
I have been sharing JR's 2012 TED talk with my students for the last 4 years. Check out the work of JR here. He asks the question "Can...
Mini Comic Books
In my art class we draw everyday but we also learn how to think, plan, revise, speak and reflect. My 6th grade students wrapped up a...