Date: September 1st 2010
My wish list is ambitious. I
would like an art room to look like an art studio. Have big tables, drafting
tables, life drawing set up (platform and easels), multiple lighting
configurations that the teacher can control, clay stations, etc. and super
electronic capabilities. Have a “clean room” for computer art -
let those students know that when they enter those rooms, something different
is going to happen in there, something of their own making. So many art rooms
still have desks in them. They look like the history or English class or big
tables that are lined up in rows.
Another part of my wish list is
funding to get the students out of the art studio, visiting other artists in
their art studios, doing work at museums and different locations. Have an art
bus, that is dedicated to just the art department. That is their creative “vehicle”
to take them to places they wouldn’t have dreamed of (hopefully the
teacher has great ideas).
I would also like to have
visiting artists in the classroom. It gives a new perspective to what the
teacher offers and the students get to see diversity in art styles, techniques and
teaching styles within the art studio (classroom). Artists are unique. Students
need to see the diversity of thinking within the artist community.
Also on my wish list is “inspiration”.
Great teachers who will inspire their students to reach beyond what they think
they are capable of and get them to stretch, especially in times like these.
I’ll stop now.
I’m not sure what “art
supplies” you are looking for but you asked for a wish list. It’s
not necessarily realistic right now but I like to think big.
Sarah Wright
Associate Curator, Family and
Youth Programs
Gilcrease Museum
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