Blocks Paper Scissors

Clark Fralick and Clyde Gaw

Welcome to the BlocksPaperScissors Podcast! An education podcast about Teaching for Artistic Behavior and the power of self-directed art experience, creativity and experiential education! Music courtesy of The Easthills

  1. 06/21/2025

    The TAB Institute 2025 and the underpinning thought of TAB

    Hello, Apologies for the absence of a regular podcast but things have been a little busy these last few months.  In this episode, Clyde and I talk about his retitrement from K-12 education, the upcoming TAB Institute in Boston and the underpinning ideas that make TAB so important to a childs education.  TAB Institute https://massart.edu/profe.../teaching-for-artistic-behavior/ TABstock :https://www.eventzilla.net/e/tabstock-2025-2138659787... Password 25tabstock

    38 min

  2. 12/09/2024

    School Climate with Jen Rankey

    In this episode we are joined by another TAB teacher: Jen Rankey Jen Rankey (she, her, hers):  Jen serves as the Director of Visual Art at Trinity Episcopal School in Charlotte, NC. This has given her the opportunity to teach kindergarten through 8th grade students while advocating for the preservation of the arts within independent schools over the past 20 years. Although choice and student voice has always been a part of her practice, Jen officially embraced TAB seven years ago with a curriculum based upon the pillars of Teacher for Artistic Behaviors: What do artists do? The child is the artist. The classroom is the child’s studio. This is accomplished with an offering of abundant choice wrapped around strong studio and artistic habits. Additionally, Jen served on the National Art Education Association's Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Task Force. Creating an equitable and diverse world that includes a variety of voices has become a driving force in Jen’s work both inside and out of the art room. Working Group Chair, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

    40 min

  3. 10/18/2024

    Talking about Trauma with Special Guest Stacey Parrish

    In this episode we discuss trauma and how it may appear in our studio classrooms. We are joined by Stacey Parrish. Stacey teaces middle school in  Florida.

    32 min

  4. 09/12/2024

    Let's Go - Starting the year in a TAB classroom with Jean Barnett

    Hello, and welcome to the Blocks Paper Scissors Podcast #30. Today we have a special guest with us. Jean Barnett is an amazing High School TAB teacher in Central Texas.  She has been teaching for 17 years, at the same school, with more than 12 of those years as a TAB teacher.  She currently is teaching Art 1, Art 3, and runs her school’s ceramics program.  When Jean is not teaching her students how to think and behave like artists, she is teaching other art teachers all about TAB as the secondary cohort leader at the TAB Institute." Here is the link to the article Clyde mentioned.  https://tinyurl.com/3ywcmnvm

    35 min

  5. 03/27/2024

    BPS#29 Disruption in the umwelt

    Hello fellow TAB teachers! We got our act together again to catch up and discuss what's happening in our TAB studios. We also chat about upcoming professional development opportunities that Clyde and I will be participating in later this year. Also, Don't be afraid to send us an email if you have a question or topic you would like us to discuss on an upcoming show.     Show notes. TAB Summer Institute at MassArt, Boston  TABstock at Blueberry Fields School Arts Magazine

    50 min

  6. 11/30/2023

    BPS#28 Autumn Bricolage

    Podcast Redux! Sorry folks, this episode was supposed to drop last week but I made a huge error while editing. My bad. Anyway, we got back together to talk about a few things that have happened since our last podcast and we discussed WOW, Austins Butterfly, and other TAB missteps.   The Tornado Drawing     Images from Clydes Artshow   Article Clyde talked about.

    1h 7m

  7. 10/01/2023

    BPS #27 Catching up

    In this episode Clyde and I try to catch up with each other from TAB Institute to the new year and beyond. We are not in a studio and therefore the sound quality will vary.

    48 min

  8. 07/07/2023

    The Genesis of TAB: A live recording Kathy Douglas from TABstock2023

    During this years TABstock, we were blessed to have Kathy Douglas in attendance. I grabbed the opportunity to record, in her words, the genesis of TAB. It is a wonderful story told by one of the founders of TAB: Kathy Douglas.

    49 min
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Welcome to the BlocksPaperScissors Podcast! An education podcast about Teaching for Artistic Behavior and the power of self-directed art experience, creativity and experiential education! Music courtesy of The Easthills

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  • Creator
    Clark Fralick and Clyde Gaw
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2025
  • Episodes
    36
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2017 . All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Blocks Paper Scissors