Life and Art in the Garden State


Featuring the art and activities of students at Haddon Township High School & Rohrer Middle School.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

500 Years of Self-Portraits!

I just taught an art history lesson to my students that highlighted 500 years of self-portraits. For my students, I think seeing and learning that virtually every artist has created a self-portrait (or tons of them) during their lifetime, put all of their own hard work into perspective!

It was a great conversation that they will follow up on when they select and write their artist research posts on their blogs in January. I’m thrilled with the self-portraits my students created. Click here to see and read more!

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