A Happy Art Room

I'm retired now, but I'd still like to share these views of my former classroom.  Here's the color wheel table, made from a table I rescued a few years back.  I hope the new art teacher will take good care of it!

My room always included a place to focus on famous artists, though my inability to stick to a schedule convinced me in my last years of teaching to change this board to "featured artists" which enabled me to change it whenever I wanted to, and to leave it up longer than a month if desired.

Totem and window shade - I used yellow contact paper and permanent markers for the sunshine, and painted the rest of the shade.  We could pull the shade down on rainy days and say "the sun is always shining in the art room!"

My 6th graders were sort of middle school, sort of elementary school, so they needed a special set of grading guidelines.  Their first assignment was creating a "passport" where they recorded their thoughts and observations on each assignment/project completed throughout the year. I used the passport as a place to record their grades.