Being an art student, I have had very few teachers who showed me how art can relate to so many other studies. As a kid, I pictured "art" as something you could hang gallery of old paintings, all created by genius artists--it was not until much later that I learned that, thankfully, this was not the case. I was naturally drawn to the idea of creating art, and it took me awhile to realize that "art" can be learned, you don't have to be "born with it."
As an art educator, I feel I could show my students how applicable art really is to so many aspects of our lives, and I want to be able to share this. I think that people get excited about something they can relate to, something they understand. Today, I think kids need to be exposed to more contemporary art--it's what they are living in, but at least for me, in grade school my teachers hardly touched this. I hope to teach in a way that shows my students that art is an living idea--it's not just paintings by dead guys--and that their personal ideas can be manifested.
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