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Submitted by: Tina Ferguson, Art Teacher

Teaching Tip

I use art history folders. I made twenty all together; as I have never had a class with over 18 students, I felt this was a good number.

Each folder has three prongs and holds about five plastic sheet protectors, which will hold up to ten pages.

Every time we study a new artist, I insert the new pages and take out the old ones.

On the first page I include a picture or portrait of the artist, if available, and biographical information. I keep it short and to the point.

The rest of the pages are filled up with copies of the artist's work. All of this is done on my home computer and a regular printer/copier.

I copy or print to best fit the 8.5 by 11 size.

Dover Publications is an excellent source of material along with internet searches for free material.

These folders also work with artistic movements like Cubism or Surrealism where you can include the work of more than one artist.

We look at the work and discuss what we see. I have been using this technique for the past five years.

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