What art teachers really make:
- we make students learn to love their “mistakes” and look at erasers as violent weapons
- we make students look into a mirror and see possibilities instead of flaws
- we make students see beauty in a pile of trash
- we make students realize that creating Art takes thought, planning and practice
- we make students see through the eyes of our world’s history of artists
- we make students pour their guts out onto a page or into a lump of clay
- we make students create more than they thought possible
- we make faculty and staff see their students in a new way
- we make parents proud and jealous, because they “were never good in art” like their children
- we make reality-tv-free culture a hopeful possibility for the next few generations
- we make people believe that they can change the world with a pencil, a pixel, a camera or a block of stone
What do you really make?
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Emily,
Thanks for sharing the video – it made my night. I passed the url for your post to all the staff at my school in part to share the video, but also to recognize your blog as a great example of posts about what goes on every day in the classroom and what challenges we face and joys we discover with our students. I look forward to reading your blog regularly. — Sarah
Sarah,
This video made my day when I saw it too. My fabulous boyfriend found it and sent to to me a while ago. Hope you like what you read
Emily
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