Art relieves angst, especially open-ended creative immersion with engaging art materials. Life today can be noisy, distracting, challenging and sometimes upsetting. Even our children fall prey to stressful situations. Give your children a timeout for a soothing art experience. A blank sketchpad with crayons, markers, pencils, paint or a nice mound of soft sculpting material…

Kayla, an Abrakadoodle artist from Austin, paints her crown during art camp. Have you ever seen the gleeful expression on a child who has created a piece of art that did not exist in the world before? It’s pure magic. A blank sketchpad represents a playground for a child’s imagination. Equipped with pencils, crayons, markers…

At Abrakadoodle, each and every visual arts lesson seeks to spark creativity in our students. We believe in process art in which children actively explore art and make decisions that reflect their feelings and imagination. As such, we are keenly interested in current research and messaging from such thought leaders as Dan Pink and others…

He’s an author, educational theorist, business guru, husband and father of two (did I mention he was a White House speechwriter for then Vice President Al Gore?). As I sat in the lobby of our conference hotel at the National Harbor near Washington, DC awaiting Dan Pink’s arrival, I confess to some apprehension mixed with…

Abrakadoodle’s 2011 conference kicked off Friday, April 29th with a reception at the Art Whino Gallery located at the National Harbor near Washington, DC. The colorful event, filmed by a local news service on behalf of NBC News, featured live painting on human and man-made canvas by Gary Cole, the world’s fastest face-painter, as well…