It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ~Elizabeth Taylor
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Daily Thoughts
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Daily Thoughts
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -Maya Angelou
Monday, March 21, 2011
Daily Thoughts
O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives. ~Jim Morrison
Friday, March 18, 2011
Daily Thoughts
March 14 - 18, 2011
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. ~T. S. Eliot
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing. ~Robert Benchley
All good art is an indiscretion. ~Tennessee Williams
I am just too much. ~Bette Davis
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.~ Marc Chagall
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. ~T. S. Eliot
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing. ~Robert Benchley
All good art is an indiscretion. ~Tennessee Williams
I am just too much. ~Bette Davis
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.~ Marc Chagall
Monday, February 28, 2011
The Future is Coming! The Future is Coming!
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. ~Lewis Carroll
The future is coming- whether you like it or not. As Teaching Artists, we strive to honor the accumulated wisdom of the past, and work diligently to pass at least some of that wisdom on to our students. However, it is incumbent upon us to spend at least as much time thinking about the future, and our students' role in that future. The National Association of Independent Schools puts it this way:
At first glance, it seems surprising that the arts play such an integral role in schools of the future. But on second thought, it makes perfect sense.
Clearly, the arts promote creative thinking, teach flexibility and adaptability, and encourage risk-taking. The arts also develop self-expression and communication skills. Perhaps most important, at a time when students are developing a sense of personal identity, the arts provide a safe environment for students to “try-on” different identities and roles.
Public performance is the most terrifying thing most of us ever face. Perhaps for this reason, the intensity of the arts, especially the performing arts, fosters discipline, a work ethic, and the realization that practice trumps talent.
Similar to good athletic programs, well-managed arts programs focus on developing individual competence while simultaneously fostering an esprit de corps that aspires to the highest levels of teamwork.
Finally, these noteworthy schools support the investment in arts programs because the arts provide moments of beauty and fulfillment that relieve stress and fill young hearts with hope and joy.
From A Guide to Becoming a School of the Future © 2010 National Association of Independent Schools
The future is coming- whether you like it or not. As Teaching Artists, we strive to honor the accumulated wisdom of the past, and work diligently to pass at least some of that wisdom on to our students. However, it is incumbent upon us to spend at least as much time thinking about the future, and our students' role in that future. The National Association of Independent Schools puts it this way:
At first glance, it seems surprising that the arts play such an integral role in schools of the future. But on second thought, it makes perfect sense.
Clearly, the arts promote creative thinking, teach flexibility and adaptability, and encourage risk-taking. The arts also develop self-expression and communication skills. Perhaps most important, at a time when students are developing a sense of personal identity, the arts provide a safe environment for students to “try-on” different identities and roles.
Public performance is the most terrifying thing most of us ever face. Perhaps for this reason, the intensity of the arts, especially the performing arts, fosters discipline, a work ethic, and the realization that practice trumps talent.
Similar to good athletic programs, well-managed arts programs focus on developing individual competence while simultaneously fostering an esprit de corps that aspires to the highest levels of teamwork.
Finally, these noteworthy schools support the investment in arts programs because the arts provide moments of beauty and fulfillment that relieve stress and fill young hearts with hope and joy.
From A Guide to Becoming a School of the Future © 2010 National Association of Independent Schools
Friday, February 11, 2011
Daily Thoughts
February 7 - 11, 2010
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. ~Vince Lombardi
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box. ~Bette Davis
There can be no joy in living without joy in work. ~ St. Thomas Aquinas
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. ~Tennessee Williams
Life is hard. After all, it kills you. ~Katharine Hepburn
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. ~Vince Lombardi
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box. ~Bette Davis
There can be no joy in living without joy in work. ~ St. Thomas Aquinas
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. ~Tennessee Williams
Life is hard. After all, it kills you. ~Katharine Hepburn
Friday, February 4, 2011
Daily Thoughts
January 31 - February 4, 2011
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you. ~Arthur Miller
It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light. ~ G. K. Chesterton
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. ~Pablo Picasso
Believe me; the living artist needs an advocate. ~Howardena Pindell
Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression. ~Viola Spolin
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you. ~Arthur Miller
It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light. ~ G. K. Chesterton
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. ~Pablo Picasso
Believe me; the living artist needs an advocate. ~Howardena Pindell
Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression. ~Viola Spolin
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