Middle School ARt

You don’t need to be an artist to teach art! Hear about projects and ideas to utilize in your mid- to upper-grade art classes, including how to simply communicate key art concepts that answer questions like these:

• Why is art important?

• What are the key ingredients to making art?

• Who have been art influencers throughout history?

• How can you utilize and recognize imagination and meaning in art?

• How can you serve and impact your community through art?

No matter what your budget (or how often you actually have art class), learn about a variety of easy and low-material projects that teach impactful art concepts to your students, while helping them discover more about who they are and how to use the brain they’ve been given in a creative, unique, and important way.

Anna Biedenbender has been the domestic admissions counselor at St. Croix Lutheran Academy since 2020 and has also taught middle school art (grades 6-8) since 2021. She graduated from WLC in 2014 with a BA in art, then received her MFA in visual art from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 2016. Until 2023, she maintained her own studio space in NE Minneapolis, where she painted multiple commissions and bodies of work for exhibition, regularly mentored private students, and made presentations to various school groups, at conferences, and in the studio. Although an accident in 2022 led to changes in her studio practice, she does intend to continue painting.