It's Time...

Celebrate our differences and learn from those opportunities!

Commit to engage in your communities...be kind to each other...practice random acts of generosity...

Be honest...

Create an environment with the kind of energy you crave...

ACTIVATE

*Inspired by Barbara Kruger and created at the National Gallery Teacher Workshop

The Edge

This weekend I attended an excellent workshop at the National Gallery of Art. It was a delightful day spent with my fellow art teachers. As we left the gallery I found myself touching a corner of the building I have never experienced before! However it was clear from the smoothed rubbed edge that many had been there before me! It is the thinnest and sharpest edge. A profound view of the capitol exposed just around that edge, my eye bounced back and forth, a poignant reminder that it is the art around every corner and that will see us through. 

Radiant Energy!

Yayoi Kusama is making her presence known at the Hirshhorn! She is an avant-garde sculptor, painter and novelist. Her pumpkin has arrived and it is a lovely foretelling of the work that will be on exhibit in February! We will be so lucky to experience the Infinity Mirrors. I had the pleasure of experiencing her work at the Mattress Factory a year ago in Pittsburgh with my students. They were awestruck and inspired. This will surely be a must see in our own backyard!

Globe Dye Excursion

 Today was the annual trek up to Philadelphia to visit the Globe Dye Works! These seniors had the opportunity to talk with artists, artisans, fabricators and an array of small businesses.

 Thank you to Rival Brothers, Anne & Kate, Stacey Lee Webber and Joe Leroux for their time energy and enthusiasm while speaking with my students!

Floating into the Holiday season!

    Hope everyone enjoyed the Thanksgiving holiday! This season I am so grateful for my beautiful boys! 

 I am so fortunate to have such curious and clever children. They warm my heart everyday with their silly antics!

Interactions

 This week we kicked off our Emerging Visions partnership with the Greater Reston Arts Center!

 The exhibition for inspiration is exhilarating and the students really enjoyed the experience and the artwork of Shih Cheih Huang.

 Our students will explore the idea of Interactions through their preferred media. They will work through idea generation, the process of building/creating their response to exhibit in the Spring at 

GRACE.

     

#22...Gaining Inspiration..

As I prepared to begin another school year, nice even year 22,  I had the total pleasure of taking off to NYC for a day trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. I went with my clever and intrepid studio art department friends! 

   It was awesome to see the work of Diane Arbus: In The Beginning in the new Met Breuer as well as the Thoughts Left Unfinished a thorough and beautiful exhibition of artwork that remain unfinished by their makers beginning from the Renaissance to now.

Our studio art department has grown this year! We are so lucky to have four in our little department!

To celebrate we headed down to Richmond to enjoy the Kehinde Wiley A New Republic as well as the Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott exhibitions.

If these short inspirational jaunts are any indication, it is destined to be fabulous school year!