Clyde Gaw:
Clyde Gaw:
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Educator-Artist
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Clyde Gaw is a distinguished fellow of the Art Education Association of Indiana. Over the past 41 years, Gaw has taught art in Indiana and Massachusetts, working in K12, university and museum settings. Underpinning Gaw's teaching practice are ongoing studio activities. Gaw has been promoting emergent art-making based on Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) educational philosophy since 2004. Since his retirement from K12 education, Gaw has been engaged in a myriad of educational and creative projects including the renovation of an 1890 Parke County, Indiana farm house, painting and sculpture work, international mentorship and professional development. Gaw is the beneficiary of discovery learning through self-directed art-making. Authentic creativity is a phenomenal event that has benevolent, life-changing ramifications. The phenomenological beneficence of art making experience cannot be understated. Gaw is a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and through his own experience as a caregiver and educator, has regularly observed that creativity is an essential element for developing insight and well-being. This web platform is a showcase of Gaw's creative and professional work.
Clyde Gaw is a distinguished fellow of the Art Education Association of Indiana. Over the past 41 years, Gaw has taught art in Indiana and Massachusetts, working in K12, university and museum settings. Underpinning Gaw's teaching practice are ongoing studio activities. Gaw has been promoting emergent art-making based on Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) educational philosophy since 2004. Since his retirement from K12 education, Gaw has been engaged in a myriad of educational and creative projects including the renovation of an 1890 Parke County, Indiana farm house, painting and sculpture work, international mentorship and professional development. Gaw is the beneficiary of discovery learning through self-directed art-making. Authentic creativity is a phenomenal event that has benevolent, life-changing ramifications. The phenomenological beneficence of art making experience cannot be understated. Gaw is a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and through his own experience as a caregiver and educator, has regularly observed that creativity is an essential element for developing insight and well-being. This web platform is a showcase of Gaw's creative and professional work.
Welcome to Clyde's studio website.
Welcome to Clyde's studio website.
"Radial Rhizome," (78" x 38") an experiment in radial symmetry and emergent mark making. Ongoing since August, 2025.
Below we see the process of emergence taking flight.
Relying on intuitive decision making, the rhizome composition is layered with new marks, shapes and colors.
Gaw works on "Mastodon" sculpture at the Indiana State Museum in 2019.
Untitled drawing from 2017. Acrylic on 25" x 25" paper.
"Mastodon," Collaboration sculpture with Clark Fralick at the Indiana State Museum, 2019.
With Payton Gaw collaborating on Greenfield (Indiana) Municipal Mural Project, 2017.
A team of 9th grade boys construct and decorate a marble run in Gaw's New Palestine High School classroom in 2015.
Gaw and collaborator Clark Fralick begin a podcast recording at Fralick's art room in 2018. At last count, BlocksPaperScissors Podcast was downloaded over 35,000 times on Podbean.
9 x 6 inch experimental symmetry drawing with acrylics created for Kelly Beach. 2024
A work in progress parked in Gaw's studio on August 28, 2025.
"Structural Collapse" 2018, 62"x28" acrylic/tempera on paper.
A 30 foot TRex sculpture created in Gaw's 2023 and 2024 art classes is exhibited at the Hancock County Art Educators art show at the Greenfield-Central High School Gym.
One of Gaw's students creates a spaceship out of cardboard in 2009 at New Palestine Elementary School.
Gaw models artistic behavior for NPHS students in 2016.
Inside Gaw's classroom are inspirational works and texts that help to catalyze an individual's personal art ideas. Gaw's classrooms are designed to inspire praxis...putting ideas into action. When individuals within the classroom are able to express the inexpressible, reflexive thinking is achieved. Art-making is a potent activity as a means to achieve reflexivity and abstract thinking skills.
Gaw works with students who are assisting with the construction of a 30 foot cardboard TRex sculpture in 2024.
Student's at BlocksPaperScissors Art Camp (Fralick/Gaw Collaboration) develop cardboard sculptures based on personal ideas and themes. June2018
Paper/cardboard relief sculpture 38x24 inches, 2017.
Cover illustration for Wayne Au's book, Unequal by Design, 2022 Routledge Publications
With students at Indy Art Lab Summer Art Camp, Haughville Park, Indianapolis July/2014
With Clark Fralick at Indiana State Museum working on the "Dragon" at ISM's cardboard engineering exhibition, May 2025.
https://www.indianamuseum.org/experiences/cardboard-storyland/
Studio laboratory at the Indiana State Museum's Cardboard Engineering exhibit, May 2025.
Experimental painting in progress.... 2025.
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