DrawTogether Uses Art to Help Kids During Pandemic

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🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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When schools closed about a year ago, graphic journalist Wendy MacNaughton started an online show for kids called DrawTogether. MacNaughton knows art is an important way to process feelings and emotions, and she wanted to help parents get kids to do art using screens to get kids off screens and draw. Alex Madrigal talks with MacNaughton about how art can help kids of all ages, and we want to hear from you. What are some of the things you’ve done to encourage your kids to be creative during the pandemic? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.9	Welcome back to Forum.
0:38.3	I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:39.6	That Mills news is totally gutting.
0:43.1	But arts education isn't just on the wane at the collegiate level.
0:46.8	It's also one of the first things to go in elementary school education.
0:51.1	And that was even before COVID.
0:53.1	In the early days of the pandemic, when schools began to close and parents began to freak out,
0:58.1	Wendy McNatton, former social worker, an illustrator and graphic journalist here in San Francisco,
1:02.8	popped up an Instagram live art class.
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1:08.6	It became a fixture on borrowed iPhones and propped up iPads last year.
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