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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~Pablo Picasso

Thoughts for the Teaching Artist is devoted to an ongoing exploration of the role of the arts in education. I believe that the arts are an integral, essential part of every person's education. Arts education develops 21st Century Learning Skills, supports all core subjects, creates empathy & builds bridges, and helps develop voice & vision.

The views expressed in Thoughts for the Teaching Artist are mine alone and do not represent the views of my employer or any other persons or organization.



Monday, March 19, 2012

Daily Thoughts

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. ~William Plomer

 

 

Friday, March 9, 2012

Daily Thoughts

What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.~ Rainer Maria Rilke

 

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Daily Thoughts

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre. Every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone. ~Maggie Smith

 

Monday, March 5, 2012

Daily Thoughts

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Daily Thoughts

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality. Those who have the gift of creative expression in unusually large measure disclose the meaning of the individuality of others to those others. In participating in the work of art, they become artists in their activity. They learn to know and honor individuality in whatever form it appears. The fountains of creative activity are discovered and released. The free individuality which is the source of art is also the final source of creative development in time. ~John Dewey