Is your school teaching Fine Arts? If so, what subject areas? If you are the product of a school system that did have classes in Music (chorus, band, music appreciation, musical instrument instruction) and Art (traditional art instruction, art history, art appreciation, graphic arts), etc., please share with us what difference these classes made in your life.
June 4, 2009 at 10:24 am |
I was in band from 5th through 8th grade. We band members also took our art classes together on our off days from learning music. The best memory I can remember was during one of my art classes taught by Mrs. Burton, who had been afflicted with polio during her childhood, as she demonstrated how to draw a covered barn from visual imitation with a charcoal pencil. Her crippled hands floated over the sheet of paper as she held the pencil in the crook of her right hand. She completed the scene in no more than five minutes, the same time that it took for me to draw the shrub in the foreground.