[ART CLASS CURATOR] Teaching Art in a Treacherous Year: Interview with Teacher Mary Greim-Gallo

This episode is part of the former Art Class Curator podcast and is targeted specifically for art teachers. 

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For this summer, I really want to focus on art teachers and what they went through in the last year teaching through the pandemic. Every teacher has a different story to tell about what they faced, and I want to talk about one of the hardest years in memory for teachers and celebrate getting through it.

Looking forward to the new school year, what have teachers learned from this experience that’ll change the way they teach moving forward? Let’s take back the joy of reconnecting with art and reclaim our power as teachers and individuals by first reflecting on what we’ve gone through and the lessons learned. So in this episode, I start off by welcoming my first guest in a series of teacher interviews: Mary Greim-Gallo, a K-5 elementary art teacher in Rhode Island.

4:33​ - Mary’s art teaching philosophy and the classroom environment this past year

11:44 - Particular artwork lessons that connected really well with Mary’s students

14:20 - Regional art and having to carefully choose what to teach students

21:08 - What changes Mary plans to incorporate for future years

28:28 - Why Mary feels a little unnerved about planning the upcoming school year

31:56 - Going forward with a focus on social-emotional learning and diversity

37:45 - The artists that changed Mary’s life

Transcript at artclasscurator.com/66