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Joanna Johns is a teaching artist at Forest Rose school in Lancaster, Ohio. Click here to read more about her on her website Explore Me a Story My name is Joanna.  I am a mother and an experienced educator, having taught on both sides of the pond!  I have been teaching young children for 20…

Megan and I (your Art Possible Ohio staff) are both parents too. I asked one of our kiddos to help me out with some blog posts by reading and writing some book reviews. Here is a review of a book board member Amy Ranalli shared with us. Author Amy Webb is from Ohio! I’m Emily…

Hello! My name is Angelica Bell and I am a dance educator/teaching artist. I am the Artistic Director of a non-profit dance studio in Southeast Ohio called Factory Street Studio, and an Art Possible Ohio teacher at the Carleton School! I want to “pull back the curtain” and share the ways I have adapted my…

I am, and have always been, a teacher and a performer who creates opportunities for interaction with my class and/or audience.  As a teacher I almost always invite my students to come to the floor and sit in a circle with me.  As a performer, I’ve never enjoyed being up on a stage, far away…

Andrew Protopapas is a teaching artist at Parkmoor Elementary School in Columbus, Ohio. He has shared some of the recordings he has been using with students to practice their play. Several weeks back, I recorded videos of me doing the hand motions to our songs and sent those to the teachers so that they could…

Kelsey Griest is a teaching artist working at the Ewing School in Marietta, Ohio. This lesson is easy to do with materials around the house and has the potential to keep students (and grown-ups) busy for hours. How to make a multi-media collage using supplies from home! What you will need: Glue Scissors Photos, Magazines…

Lori Esposito is a teaching artist based in Athen’s Ohio at Beacon School. I am a teaching artist, and my son and created this seed pot demonstration using materials from around the house. This video was initially created for the Beacon School students and teachers so they could prepare their greenhouse for harvesting herbs without…

Kris Kiko Cozy is a teaching artist based in Canton, Ohio. Her classes combine visual arts, music, movement, mindfulness practice, story-telling, and performance. In order to stay in touch and engaged with her students during the school closure she (with the help of her tech savvy husband) set up a YouTube channel. When I first…

How to begin? Things are scary right now and all of us are trying to gain some footing. Here is what we have been up to. What We are Doing at Art Possible Ohio Megan and I are working from home. We are visiting the office once a week or less to get mail. We…

I am working from home today on the fourth day of the new normal. I am sitting at the desk that my partner Ryan helped me haul upstairs to our bedroom so I would have a quiet spot while our three kids are home from school. We are navigating the uncharted waters of a global…

Disability culture has improved thousandfold since the early days of institutions and sheltered workshops. Growing up, for me, it wasn’t uncommon to see “Handicapped Parking” signs everywhere. The latter term has thankfully become antiquated. We now see a shift from seeing disability rights as privilege, to seeing disability rights as human rights owed the same…

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” — Isaac Newton in 1675 Expression is conveying ones thoughts or feelings. Art is the earliest known way, predating even spoken languages and ancient cultures. Whatever media we use in art whether it be a paintbrush or our own body, it…

What does it mean to have a “disability identity”? Put simply, it means to have a disability as part of who you are. Usually, when able-bodied people think of the word disability, it means only what a person “can’t do”. This is what we’re trying to change. We wish disability to be associated with a…