Blackboard Drawing

Leo Klein, Artist and Educator

April 18, 2013 by Kate Walter

Leo Klein taught for 37 years at the Waldorf school in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, his work including classes with elementary school children and with high school students. Since 1992 Leo Klein has traveled Canada and the United States, stopping at Waldorf school across the continent to share his artwork, observe, converse, laugh, and coach teachers,…READ MORE >

Blackboard Drawings

April 8, 2013 by Kate Walter

One of the rewards found teaching in a Waldorf school is the required opportunity to work with colored chalk on the blackboard. In the Waldorf classroom, we put drawings on the board to create mood and atmosphere in the classroom and to be an artful aid to the students, encouraging them to enter their lessons imaginatively.…READ MORE >

Garden of Radio Delights

Roll back the tape: 1960, Cincinnati, Ohio, 3 am. My upstairs bedroom. Headphones on, I’m squinting in the dark at the lighted dial of my Hallicrafter S-38e short wave radio, with a Q-multiplier attached that I built from a Heathkit. The S-38e was produced from 1957 to 1961, making it the end of the Hallicrafters S-38 line of shortwave…READ MORE >

Music in the Wood: Harmonic Forms by Paul Fairchild

I climbed down out of the Crow’s Nest and spent a recent Saturday afternoon worrying a pile of knotty red oak rounds with a maul and wedge, whittling them down to size for the wood stove. As I split them open, I enjoyed seeing the beautiful swirling grains in the wood, exposed to the sunlight…READ MORE >

Blackboard Drawing

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