3 posts tagged “vermont”
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch,
you must first create the universe.
-Carl Sagan
For lunch we take a walk up to the ice- cream store, and have a picnic by the lovely swimming pool belonging to the Brandon Inn. Then we stop by the Inside Scoop, an ice-cream and antiques store, with cool toys, games, fascinating trinkets, Mexican folk art and fine antiques. Lots of inspiration to be found there, and great ice-cream too!
Not a bad way to spend a summer day!
This year the Brandon Artist's Guild's community project is titled "Starring Brandon" so we chose that for our Aartz
We are all at different points of our journey into infinity. Each step of the path offers opportunities, challenges and occasional set backs.
I was in Cambridge to see Andy and to deliver work to Co/So, the Copley Society on Newbury Street. I dropped off three small paintings for the summer show: Starry Night Sunflower, Singing Wren and Moonlit Shell.
Boston was at it's most lovely, gardens in perfect bloom, the scent of lilacs in the air.
I've been working with iridescent color pours for backgrounds lately. The challenge of creating a sense of drama which
would understand this.
to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx
Every day we walked up into town and had a picnic at either The Inside Scoop or Briggs Carriage Bookstore. Both locations are chock-full of inspiring art, from the Mexican Folk art retablos and Day of the Dead constructions at the Inside Scoop, to the huge paintings, great photos and great books on the walls of the bookstore. Inspiration abounds in Brandon.
Art education is often the first program cut in elementary schools. Those who slice and dice budgets don't realize how important it is to allow children to be creative just for the sake of exercising that part of the brain. An art program must teach more than technique, and should not have finite answers. Checking off a list of manual skills is not the objective in my classes, though that quantifiable goal allows administrators to justify the art budget.
Solving problems through creative thinking is how we got to the moon, how the wheel was invented, how we learned to grow wheat in the Fertile Crescent. Don't mean to sound preachy- just passionate. I am an artist and have been since childhood, but being a painter/sculptor is not the only goal of visual arts programs!
Listen to your muse!
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