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OUR 2009 CATALOG IS NOW AVAILABLE!
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Crystal Productions' New Product Spotlight!
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Art Display Cards - Painting
Covers Acrylic, Airbrush Technique, Casein, Chinese Brush Painting, Egg Tempera, Finger Painting, Fresco Painting, Gouache, Hard-edge Painting, Impasto Technique, Ink and Wash, Oil, Pastel Painting, Palette, Tempera, and Watercolor. Set of 16 cards 18 x 6 inches.
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Art Display Cards - Craft
Features Stained Glass, Glassblowing, Functional Ceramics, Decorative Ceramics, Mosaics, Jewelry, Sculpture, Leatherwork, Weaving, Batik, Quilts, Papermaking, Bookbinding, Baskets, Wood Bowls, and Wood Furniture. Set of 16 cards 18 x 6 inches.
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Disciplines of Art Posters
Consultant: Pam Stephens
This set of four posters will encourage students to learn and remember the four disciplines of art: art production, art criticism, art history, and aesthetics. These colorful posters will help reinforce an important subject that can be confusing to students. Comprehensive teacher’s guide with activities included. 4 posters, 13 x 18.5 inches.
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Making Books
Peggy Flores
Peggy Flores shows simple methods to make books with stitch binding, accordion books, and pop-up books. Designing colorful covers is part of this project which produces functional books for sketches, diaries, note-taking, and scrapbooks. DVD and VHS 25 minutes.
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Junk Sculpture
Peggy Flores
Another good project from Peggy Flores demonstrating how to use discarded boxes, paper tubes, plastic containers, egg cartons, and other cast-off materials to make amusing little animals and figures. Students of all ages will get amazing results. DVD and VHS 25 minutes.
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Digital Photography Posters
This series introduces the technical aspects of digital photography. Students learn about lighting, exposure, lenses, printing, as well as other important facts about photography. Printed on heavy card stock with holes for hanging and a protective coating. Set of 12 posters, 18 x 24 inches.
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 Know the Artist Posters
Each set in this series includes eight posters providing an overview of important artists’ lives, works, and styles. Each informative poster, 18 x 24 inches, is an easy way to learn about artists through reproductions of their art, diagrams, maps, and timelines. Printed on card stock with holes for hanging. The artists featured in Set 8 are Butterfield, Chihuly, Johns, Kahn, Kelly, Moore, Rosenquist, and Stella. Includes teacher’s guide. Know the Artist Set 9 posters.
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Graphic Design Posters
This series introduces the history of graphic design and the design process. Students learn about typefaces, layout, grids, and printing, plus the various applications of graphic design. Topics covered include identity and brand development, editorial design, packaging, advertising, and electronic design including website and multimedia design. Ideal for art teachers and guidance counselors. Set of 12 posters, 18 x 24 inches.
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Outsider Art: Mosaic Murals
Isaiah Zagar has inspired a mosaic revolution that has made Philadelphia a vibrant city of hundreds if not thousands of reflective murals. This is the story of one man’s declaration that Philadelphia is the art center of the world, and his tireless journey to make that declaration a reality. DVD 30 minutes.
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In Plain Sight: Public Art in the City
Explores the history of public art in Santa Barbara from ancient cave paintings to modern installations like Herbert Bayer’s Chromatic Gate, and shows how public art is woven into the fabric of a city. Meet working artists and discover the challenging process of getting artwork approved and installed. In Plain Sight offers a multifaceted perspective on the value and meaning of public art in our lives. DVD 42 minutes.
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Digital Digest - Photography
Video Segments On Digital Photography
This instructional DVD covers all the basics of digital photography including the camera, f-stops and shutter speeds, ISO selection, exposure, the Rule of Thirds and Odds, saving, storing, and printing files, memory and batteries, white balance and flash, camera features, and more. DVD 40 minutes
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Bridging the Curriculum through Art: Interdisciplinary Connections
Pam Stephens and Nancy Walkup
The second edition of Bridging the Curriculum through Art: Interdisciplinary Connections will guide readers to an understanding of complex art-based interdisciplinary teaching strategies. With updated lesson planning information and new activities, Bridging will be a welcome addition to your library. 144 pages, paper back, spiral bound.
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Crystal Productions' Featured Author of the Month "Click Here For More Featured Authors"
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Stephen Quiller,
Artist/Author/Art Educator
Stephen Quiller is an internationally recognized artist, author, and instructor whose paintings are represented in many corporate, public, and private collections. He teaches workshops throughout the world, juries shows, and lectures on color and water media to art associations and watercolor societies throughout the United States. Quiller is a member of the National Watercolor Society and the American Watercolor Society, among others, and is listed in Who's Who in American Art. His book titles include Acrylic Painting Techniques, Color Choices, and Painter's Guide to Color. In addition to his books you can find his wide variety of video titles below. His work is available at the Mission Gallery in Taos, New Mexico, and the Quiller Gallery in Creede, Colorado, where he lives.
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New Informational Resources for Grants & Other Opportunities!
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Crystal Productions is pleased to add the following information to its website.
First, we have added a link to The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) for the national organization and all the regional and individual state agencies.
The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) is the membership organization that unites, represents and serves the nation's state and jurisdictional arts agencies. Each of the 56 states and jurisdictions has created an agency to support excellence in and access to the arts.
NASAA's mission is to strengthen state arts agencies. The NASAA represents the art agencies individual and collective interests, empowers their work through knowledge, and advances the arts as an essential public benefit.
NASAA works at the national, state and local levels to ensure that
- every individual has abundant opportunities to participate in the artistic experience;
- the arts play a valued role in the educational, economic and cultural well-being of our communities;
- the nation's artists and arts organizations are key partners in providing public benefits; and
- our nation's diversity is recognized and celebrated through the arts.
The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies is a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization.
Second, we have added a link to a summary of the National Visual Arts Standards by the National Art Education Association (NAEA) which we hope you find useful in evaluating our products. All Crystal Productions products have been designed to meet the teaching goals as outlined in the Standards.
See these new links below and on the footer of every page on our website.
The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
National Visual Arts Standards by the National Art Education Association (NAEA)
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