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2010 Linoleum Block Printing Contest
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Teachers! Here's an opportunity to increase your art budget and gain national recognition for your students.
A total of 15 students will win art supplies for their schools and handsome walnut mounted plaques for themselves when their prints are chosen from thousands of entries. Homeschoolers are welcome. Click here to view the rules, see contest prizes, print entry forms, and view the 2009 winners.
Grades: The contest is offered in three grade divisions: 4-6, 7-9, and 10-12.
Entry deadline: March 15, 2010
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BusRadio's 2nd Annual National Youth Art Month Contest
Winning students and their schools will receive $5,000 in Blick art supplies.
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Blick is pleased to be working with Bus Radio for the second year in a row to help support art education for all children. As a way to encourage students and their teachers to explore their creative potential and to raise awareness about the importance of art education in schools, BusRadio challenges students to submit photos of their original artwork to BusRadio's Web site, www.busradio.com.
Blick is once again providing $5,000 in prizes which will be awarded to three schools as well as three individual students! In order to enter, we are inviting students, with the help of their teachers, to post pictures of their best artwork on BusRadio.com. The contest entry period ends on April 17th.
Last year's winners were selected by BusRadio and its listeners from among more than 800 entries submitted by students from kindergarten through 12th grade. More than 700,000 votes were cast for the winning entrants by students, parents and teachers.
Click here to view the 2008 contest winners and the thousands of terrific entries!
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NAEA: National Art Education Association
Congratulations to our 2009 NAEA Convention Scholarship Winners:
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Leigh Souder
Kathryn Winn School
Carrollton, KY
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Tish McFee
Basalt High School
Basalt, CO
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Winning entries were drawn from over 4,000 that were received in the Blick Art Materials booth
at state art education association conferences during the fall of 2008. The two scholarship winners
received an all expenses paid trip to this year's National Art Education Association Convention that was
held in Minneapolis from April 17-21, 2009.
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This year's convention was a huge success! Thousands of art educators participated in more than 1,000 workshops, seminars and panels during the five-day event, in support of NAEA’s mission of promoting art education and advancing visual arts in schools. Blick Art Materials was proud to be a Platinum sponsor of the 2009 convention as well as an exhibitor, welcoming attendees to its large exhibit space on the convention floor and inviting them to participate in engaging hands-on projects.
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Visitors to the booth also tried out a variety of exciting new Blick products, including Blick Artists’ Watercolors, Studio Artists’ Oil Colors, Fine-Point Permanent Markers, Blick Studio Markers, and Blick Glitter and Fluorescent Liquid Watercolors. These products are the most recent additions to Blick’s large family of private-label products, developed to offer art educators, students and professional artists a high-quality alternative to higher-priced brands.
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Blick supports state art education organizations as well as the NAEA by attending conferences, placing
advertisements in organization publications, as well as providing door prizes, handouts, samples, and
workshop presentations. We understand the value of professional development and peer interaction for art
teachers, and are aware that all too often attendees of both state and national conferences must pay their
registration and travel expenses out of pocket.
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Rewarding educators who attended their state conference and visited the Blick booth allows us to show
further support of art education organizations and provide these individuals with an opportunity that
only a small percentage of art teachers nationwide are able to experience — the chance to attend NAEA.
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If you haven't taken the opportunity to attend your state or national art education association conference, we strongly recommend you do so.
Click here to visit the NAEA website.
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Blick's 2009 School Catalog: Resources for Art Educators!
Our annual Art Materials Catalog is 624 pages of resources and lesson plans for grades 6-12 art educators. Contains an extensive array of paints, mediums, brushes, canvas, papers, frames, airbrushes, screen printing, sign making, woodworking, sculpture, and ceramics supplies, easels, art furniture, books, DVDs, and more. Teachers Pick Blick! Order your copy today!
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Blick's New K-6 Catalog: Created specifically for educators!
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The question "Why teach art?" is everywhere these days. As funding for the arts is being cut from school, after-school,
camp and recreation programs, Blick believes it is critical to reinforce why art education is important. When children
participate in activities that embrace art, the positive effect on their physiological, cognitive and
psychological development is irrefutable. Numerous studies show, and parents and teachers concur, that participation
in art makes kids better students and better people. So to help introduce art into the early years of school, we
developed this new catalog directed to K-6 grade levels. Order your copy today!
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Young children experience a sense of pride and accomplishment upon completion of individual and group art projects.
The millions of refrigerator door "art galleries" across the country are testament to this! Perhaps more importantly,
art lessons that incorporate core subjects such as math, science, reading, and writing deepen children's understanding
of those subjects.
We developed our new full-color K-6 Classroom Art catalog with 25 fun and informative lesson plans. Whether you're a trained
art teacher, a community center, camp, or park district activities director or a classroom teacher attempting to incorporate
art into the curriculum — we're certain our catalog will prove to be a value-filled and valuable resource. Blick has
been serving customers since 1911. Our competitive pricing, unparalleled selection, and superior customer service can aid you
as you "teach art."
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Pamela Geiger Stephens, PhD
Art Education Coordinator
Northern Arizona University
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in public schools and at the university level,
a perplexing question has recurred: "Why teach art?" This query never fails to surprise me,
for in my estimation the arts are at the very core of all we need to know and what we should be teaching.
As art teachers — regardless of where or who we teach — we should consider that the content of art has the power to impact in positive ways the physical development and cognition of our students. For example:
- Development of small muscles and improvement of eye-hand coordination occurs when students manipulate art materials and tools.
- Skills of observation, communication (including vocabulary acquisition), and respect for the opinions of others are taught when students explore and discuss art.
- Critical thinking skills learned in art seem to transfer to other content areas, thus impacting learning across the curriculum.
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Terrified. This is how we elementary teachers felt when directed to teach art in the classroom. Most of us knew nothing about art or teaching art,
but with training it became a valuable focus of our integrated curriculum! We were surprised at its effect on the learning of our students.
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Cindy Hermus, art specialist
and Laurie Bargsley, teacher
Shady Brook Elem, Bedford, TX
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Kevin D. Rice,
Artist in Residence
The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
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at The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for seven years, both at camp during the summer and in the hospitals during the school year.
The mission of the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp is to help children with serious illnesses reclaim important parts of their childhoods. I see art and painting as
an important part of this process.
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