A Look Inside The IPaintMyMind Arts Education Curriculum & Resource Guide

This is an exclusive sneak peek into a one-of-a-kind arts education resource, The IPaintMyMind Arts Education Curriculum & Resource Guide: A Comprehensive Creative Experience for e-Learning, Hybrid Learning, and Homeschooling. This 77+ page booklet used to be available only as a partnered resource as part of our Shared Walls™ program. 

However, given the patchwork state of arts education across the country as we enter this new school year during a pandemic, we have decided to make it available to art teachers and administrators all over the country to become a part of their curriculum. 

This curriculum power-building resource is super flexible, and perfect for an evolving and think-on-your-feet school year, unlike any other. More than just giving you ideas and tools to maximize the potential of your arts education, this download is a plug-n-play arts curriculum for flexible learning environments.

Didn’t know how you’d teach art this semester, this is how!! Purchase yours to gain instant access.

What The Guide Includes 

Three Phases of Arts Learning

• This pathway is called ‘See, Think, Do.’ or ‘Experience, Reflect, Make.’ and is central to activating young people to participate in the creative process by first engaging and reflecting, before making art of their own.

20+ Prompts and 18 Arts Activities & Lesson Plans Intended for Active Learning

• Explore themes and this sequence of activation by unpacking the prompts laid our in each phase of learning
• Make art through innovative activities that minimize the need for supplies while also connecting the process of creativity to the way art lives in the real world

Customizable Framework

• We’ve outlined a few timelines to roll out the entire curriculum below, but it’s absolutely customizable to any schedule or frequency of interaction

Treasure Trove of Arts Engagement Resources

• Small Group Activities, Artist Process Videos, Artist Interviews, Articles for Educators &  Parents, and more.

The IPMM Pathway of Activation: See, Think, Do

The core of the guide is IPaintMyMind’s pathway of activation for arts education: See, Think, Do. This revolving door concept uses existing art and artists as a springboard to inspire your students to create artwork of their very own. In our Shared Walls™ program, this starts with the unique gallery we install at each school, handpicked from our permanent collection. 

If you have purchased the Art Guide as a standalone resource, whichever artist and art pieces you choose as a starting point are totally up to you. We recommend using the work of an artist who has cultural similarities to your students. Maybe they share a hometown, ethnic identity, or elements of a back story. 

At IPMM, we strongly believe in the power of representation. If students see artists that look like them or come from the places they do, making powerful and impactful art, then they will believe in their own power to do the very same. 

The ultimate goal of our Art Guide is to stimulate a Student Art Gallery project, where students’ art is hung in the school in an art gallery set-up. When children see their art elevated and appreciated in this way, it validates their experiences, creativity, and boundless potential. That’s the power of see, think, do.