07-08 School Year comes to an End

The school year was a success, a first for me in a few years. Challenges were welcome as I learned the Arizona art curriculum as well as fine tuned my language arts instruction to meet the needs of students who did not meet standards on their state assessments the previous spring. I had a wonderful group of students in my language classes and hope they feel as if they've learned a lot this year.

In art I revised and edited my lesson plans over and over again and still feel I have a long way to go, but also made a lot of progress. I may have have learned more than the kids.

I completed all my classes at Pima Community College to get my art endorsement. What a huge relief! One more online class this summer to become ESI endorsed and then I'll be current with everything the state is currently requiring!

Current works of Art

I'm currently a student at Pima Community College taking art classes to complete my art teaching endorsement to be a highly qualified art teacher for grades K-12. My first class of the semester was Art 100 Basic Design. The class was only 6 weeks long, but lasted until 10 p.m. one night per week, for a morning bird like myself it was tough staying awake to complete projects at that hour.

Having studies the elements of art and principles of design in detail while learning to teach them the past semester I was able to put my skills to the test as an artist to see what I could create while focusing on the objectives.

My last class (YIPPIE!!) is an independent study in drawing (although, I'm sneaking in a few paintings). In this class I'm confirming that I do have the talent to draw, however mostly I prefer to sketch the contour lines then turn the drawings into another form of media such as paintings. Its been an interesting experience so far.

Welcome

Welcome to the Kuhn Hobbies blog! This blog is associated with Amy's Art portion of the www.kuhnhobbies.com webpage.

Within this blog you'll find various posts about my life as an artist, student, and soon to be mother.