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I remember taking great pride having my own space.


I remember taking great pride having my own space.

By In Testimonials On April 1, 2015


Monday, March 16, 2015 12:35 PM, Kathy Anderson wrote:

Hi David,

I received a wonderful call from your mother a few days ago. She called to remind me of your time in my classes and to share with me your successes since that time. She remembered her surprise when I told her what a focused and purposeful student you were, because she hadn’t heard that from the your academic teachers.

I rarely know what has become of my students after their experience with me, so your mother’s call was particularly gratifying.

I never intended to make artists through my work, but only to give them a place to identify their calling and ground their identity.

I’d love to include your memories and some of your present work in the testimonial section of my web/site blog. Would you be willing to share them with me?

Thursday, March 19, 2015 3:34 PM David Bodhi Boylan wrote:

When I was in the first or second grade, about 25 years ago, I had to do a science project, and I went to your class and wanted to make a model of a heart out of plaster. I remember that you encouraged me to treat this not as a scientific model but as a work of art, and I made the heart out of plaster and painted it many different colors because I thought that painting it red would be to plain. I remember another student named Jillian was making an iceberg at the same time and it was thrilling and inspiring to be in such a creative atmosphere with my peers. We were very young but treated as artists not as school-children.  We were given our own cubby which we painted with spray paint (also thrilling for an 8 year old) and I would take my heart out and work on it and then put it back. I remember taking great pride having my own space.

 


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Kathy

Artist and teacher, Kathy Anderson, has been providing for, protecting, and nourishing the creative spirit in her students, young and old since she opened her school in 1980. Check out www.schoolforyoungartists.org

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