You are dedicated to your craft. You have spent countless hours honing your skills. You have a boundless curiosity for the underlying theories and structure of communicating ideas. You are the artist who finds the connections between your medium and other communications media. You are the artist who relishes in a setback; after all, it's a new opportunity to learn and grow. Inspiration is more than a haphazard mode of thought requiring constant nurturing: it is your natural state of mind.
Lean Into Art is where you go when you're ready to push yourself as an artist in new ways. As a place to learn communication arts online it combines an art-journaling approach, the best of live and time-shifted classes, and a recognition system that encourages students to finish projects, give feedback, even participate in teaching.
It's a big art challenge - that's why we put the enticing warning in the name. You have to lean into it.
Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 6:50PM Jerzy and Rob kick off the new Lean Into Art project with a preview of how the service will work, followed by some thoughts on their shared philosophy on how the best teachers have a zeal for continued learning.
You can download and listen to the audio podcast, or watch the video below:
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 4:06PM We're preparing the site for our workshops coming this December. More details coming soon.
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Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 3:46PM
Today I share some ways I think about evaluating students' work in my comics classrooms, how we teachers are a combination of salespeople, entertainers, and instructors, and a strategy I've used to drive students to try harder.
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Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 3:40PM
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 4:55PM 
In this episode I share some thoughts that went into making the presentation Making Videogames from Comics (as presented at the Nordeast Comics Summit on August 4th 2011).
