Art Integration

Painting in Action: Painting with Force and Motion

Kinetic Sculptures: Working with Homopolar Motors

This week at University Settlement we challenged the group to create homopolar motors. Created in 1821, a homopolar motor is the simplest type of motor powered by electricity from a battery. The components of a homopolar motor are a AA battery…

Guest Blog Post: How Integrating Art into Math Provided Multiple Connections for Me and My Students

Working in Scratch and Materials Hunting

As Stephanie mentioned in her post, we have done a lot of active preparing this week to start the Imagination and Invention camp. One of the major components of this preparation was learning Scratch which is a free program that serves as a beginners guide to…

Anecdotes from the “picture guy”

Installment Two

Today is the culmination of the last full week of school before Thanksgiving break. This week I had the privilege to be in classes at all four of our current schools (sometimes even in one day) and saw programing ranging…

Anecdotes from the “picture guy”

My name is Jared Akerstrom and I have been one of PAA’s documenting photographers over the past year. This is the first of a series of weekly posts, showing a little “behind the scenes” of our elementary school programming. My aim is to share photos that may not…

PAA at MoCA: Graffiti, Screen Printing, and Self Expression at PAA’s Hip Hop Camp