Welcome to the 2026-27 Lower Elementary Art Studio!



Hello and happy fall to you all!


My name is Emily Bawol, and I will be your child’s art teacher this year. I am so happy to have your kiddo

in the studio, as it is quite honestly one of my favorite places to be, and I hope it will be for your child as

well!  


A little about myself, I am an artist, art educator, art therapist, and mama. I have been working as an art educator for the better part of the past 25 years, in Michigan, Evanston, Illinois, as well as in Portland, Oregon. I have taught all grade levels, preschool through undergraduate university levels, however, I have become firmly rooted in the necessity of creating a rich art education experience in early childhood, through my seven years of teaching at A2STEAM.


I am a Choice-Based Art Educator, or more specifically a TAB (Teaching for Artistic Behavior https://teachingforartisticbehavior.org/) educator. This means that my priority within my studio is to treat all of your children as artists, and prepare them for how they can best utilize themselves as the most important tools of their creativity in order to bring their ideas to life. This means that we are exposed to a large variety of media, art history, and technique, as we develop ourselves as artists and makers in this world.


In the art studio, I promote the importance of risk taking, making mistakes, and allowing ourselves to try and often persist through experiencing new things. This means that often children are working to what is developmentally appropriate for their age range/skill level. This may mean that the work they bring home looks like it was made by a child, because that is what they amazingly are and I am here for it! 


There are no grades in lower elementary art, so as I evaluate your child, I am looking for effort, willingness to make mistakes and take risks, and persistence through their process. I am also working hard to teach them how to work with one another, maintain studio appropriate behaviors, and instill responsibility and safety protocol around material use and how we use our bodies within the studio. If at any point your child struggles with any of the above skills, to the extent that it significantly affects their learning, or that of their classmates, the following procedures will be followed upon escalation of behavior:


  1. Conversation/Redirection 

  2. Verbal Warning

  3. Potential loss of material use (if showing unsafe behaviors)

  4. Email Sent to parent, family/responsible party 

  5. Removal from the art studio and check in with the building administrator/s before re-entry is permitted. Restorative conversation may occur if harm was done to others/art materials.


I think that it is important that this information is communicated to you as parents/caregivers as working together with those at home to have a shared language and expectations between school-home is the best way to promote a positive learning environment for all those involved. My most important goal is to have a JOYFUL experience in the studio, and as artists, as these are the foundational years of learning to love the things that fill us up!


I look forward to connecting with you. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns as the year progresses. I will also be using our class art blog to feature some of the art and little snapshots from our studio work time! 


DONATIONS!

I LOVE donations! However, PLEASE contact me with any thoughts or wonders about material donations before you drop them off at school.


Donated Materials we LOVE:

  • wound/usable yarn
  • cookie cutters
  • stamps/stamp pads
  • cereal boxes
  • egg cartons
  • clean wine corks
  • craft supplies (sequence, glitter, pom poms, pipe cleaners)
  • magazines with lots of pictures/images
  • old/hardcover books to be drawn in/disassembled
  • usable fabric
VOLUNTEERS!
I LOVE them! If you are interested in hanging out and making art with kiddos, please let me know!


Continue to check out: https://a2steamwonderdome.blogspot.com/ 


Amazon Class Wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1FN4ZI5SWKVOS?ref_=wl_share


For any and all questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me: bawole@aaps.k12.mi.us


Thank you so much for your time and support!


Warmly,

Emily Bawol




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

IDEA Generation in the ART STUDIO!

Image
We talk LOTS in the studio about IDEAS, and where we as artist's can find them. We are learning that IDEAS come from things that we.... As artists in the studio, we have LOTS of opportunities to learn and grow around each of these possible spots to bring our ideas to life! We have lots of THINGS we can observe in the studio, which means we LOOK at things that can inspire our ideas. We talk about how POWERFUL our imaginations are, and dream up what could live in our imaginary worlds. We look at lots of artwork that is inspired by telling a story about how someone FEELS. We also see lots of artwork that tells a story about memories from someone's life! We learn about these things in little bits, and then combine these lessons with learning HOW to use materials, so that we might be able to really help our IDEAS grow! We also read this book, and talk ALL about ideas being ALIVE!  What to Do with an IDEA (Read Aloud) Talk to your artist about where IDEAS can come from! Wonder with t...
Read more

Welcome to the WONDERDOME!

Image
Hello parents, families and kiddos! Welcome to the 2024-25 school year! This year you will find updates as to what is happening in the Lower-El Art Studio with Miss Emily! You will have a chance to see what we are doing weekly, gather information about artists we are looking at, techniques we are trying, and so so much more!  We will also be connected to information about upcoming events, needs in the art room and ways that you can support the ARTS in your home.                                                                                For those of you who have never had a child in my class, allow me to formally introduce myself. My name is Emily Bawol. I am a mother, artist, art educator, and art therapist. I have two daughters, also in AAPS...
Read more
Image
 September 24, 2024 Hello everyone! We have been so busy in the art studio the past couple of weeks! We are working hard to build our sketchbooks that we will be using in each class as a place where we will begin ENVISIONING different potential ideas which we will bring to life through the materials in our studio! Right now we are still in the beginning stages of our EXPLORATION, as we are doing a whole lot of learning about how artists act in the WORLD, but it all starts with how we treat each other in the studio day to day.  We are also continuing to create connections between literature and our art! Our kinders and Y5's have read such books as: Lines that Wiggle, by Candace Whitman https://youtu.be/3UDqx4OQoMk?si=U0IuNoNnowO7IB9s Shapes that Roll, by Karen Nagle https://youtu.be/aZ-oGyi6MWI?si=ZcM0Hivo-BCus86p The Leaf Thief, by Alice Hemming and illustrated by Nicola Slater https://youtu.be/zLCfh4l477k?si=HSXadiX6oiDhEL70 We are beginning to lean into the STUDIO HABITS of...
Read more