Thursday, June 4, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
A Bit on the Big Side
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Art Contest: O'side Turkey Trot
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
San Diego County Fair Call for Entries
There is a fee of $16 per entry, but according to a student who entered and won last year, if you are a student, the fee is only a couple of bucks.
For more info, visit the SD Fair website, but hurry! That's this Friday!
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Art Festival 2009
Junior
this student's second watercolor, and first watercolor portrait
The art was judged by parents, staff, and secondary students. Classes were judged by grade, and among the secondary grades, separated into advanced and regular classes.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Outliers of the Artistic Kind
We live in a culture that values intelligence above little else, save, perhaps, morality. In his book, Outliers, Malcom Gladwell speaks of individuals who provided for themselves the right circumstances to succeed, given their inherent ability already allowed them a foot in the door. The illustration he uses is one of a tall tree:
“…the tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn [natural ability]; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before maturity.”
Here are a few young saplings who I’ve had the good fortune to nurture for a season, ensuring sunlight and soil in the best ways I know how, and this is a record of our accomplishments. This is a blog of student artists, advanced artists, who brought talent to the classroom and who now have grown immeasurably and aren’t done yet. Here is a record of their most gifted ability, their outrageous skill, their beauty birthed from effort.