Fellow bloggers and followers...Happy Youth Art Month!!! Busy as it has been for me, I would like to recognize this very important time of year and celebrate our young artists out there. Daily...they spend the time to "tickle their passions" and keep their passports to create up to date.
In these tough, financial times, we find fine arts programs accross the country being cut in our schools and disappearing. It is times like Youth Art Month where art educators can find their voice by making the voices and visions of their children heard. Please take the time to acknowledge and showcase your young artists. You are the single, most important voice in advocating your program and what you do for children. If you don't do it, no one will.
Last year at this time, my students' work in watercolor was on display at the City Hall Annex main lobby area. We commemorated YAM by showcasing a prelimnary showing of the works from our MoSRA exhibition, Houston: Urban Landscapes in Watercolor. As my student prepare for our next show, VESSEL - Modern Explorations of Ancient Pottery from Around the World, I find myself awestruck by the capacity for children to create. The arts are the best platform for them to do this. Art with a purpose...it is the only mission in the classroom I have ever known.
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