Art rooms are dynamic and multifaceted, determined by our everyday engagement with them. K-12 art rooms are also an underemphasized element in beginning art teacher pedagogy. Drawing on qualitative research using ethnographic maps of place as an elicitation tool during interviews, I discuss the importance of understanding the art room as a…

Many K-12 art teachers have rich artistic backgrounds and continue to be active as artists in spite of the challenges of time, energy, and stereotypes that insist a real artist would not teach. This article describes a research project that examined the educational dynamic engendered by teachers who are also artists. We interviewed and observed…

Multi-age classrooms feature the purposeful grouping of students from two or more grade levels in order to form communities of learners. During the past 40 years, multi-age education has been examined in literature and research in many different ways and contexts. In the subject area of visual art, however, little literature can be found that…