Earlier this year I was contacted by Kelley Baum, a teacher at Franklin Fine Arts school in Chicago with a request that I participate in the school's annual Arts Day. I was happy to have been asked and eager to participate in this annual event. Every year artists from all areas of the arts are invited to spend the day with the student body. This year artists included dance companies, authors, theater companies, visual artists, actors and musicians. I have some experience with teaching art in the classroom. During the 2005-2006 academic year, I designed and implemented a weekly comprehensive art education curriculum for a Montessori class of children ages 6-9. This curriculum amounted to a hands-on trip through art history. The challenge was to create weekly projects that not only followed the history of art but were engaging and workable with the ages included in the classroom....