Community
a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals
“The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.” - Sir Ken Robinson.
We are proud to create something as a community of art teachers, for our community of artists. We work to foster an atmosphere of cooperation with respect for individual differences and community values. Through this time of remote learning, we have all been put in a position to try something new and make it our own. Students have created some of the most wonderfully unique pieces of art because in many ways the arts are a form of play; an escape. The most incredible part is the number of parents and siblings that have submitted work alongside our students saying that they took time to create and had forgotten how much they enjoyed it.
“Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play. This turns possible underachievers into happy warriors.” - Sir Ken Robinson
4th grade Van Gogh Landscapes.m4v"What would life be if we had no courage for anything?"
- Vincent Van Gogh
“Young children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations ... Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up” ~ Sir Ken Robinson
"Good Artists copy. Great artists steal"
~Picasso
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I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
“We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness."
~ Sir Ken Robinson
“I shut my eyes in order to see.” – Paul Gauguin
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"To draw you must close your eyes and sing" - Pablo Picasso
Re-inventing the mug!!
Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet." Paul Klee
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
Pablo Picasso
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"The object of art is to give life shape."
- William Shakespeare
Parody Grant Wood's American Gothic
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
-Grant Wood
Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is the depth and intensity of an artist’s experience that are the first importance in art.
- Grant Wood
"The great artist is the simplifier" . -Vincent Van Gogh
"Painting is self discovery. Every good artist paints what he is" - Jackson Pollock
