| Vol.
I, No. 9 | End
of School / Summer Issue | June
15th, 2001 |
Arts
& Craft
This Month ...
Kaleidoscope
...
Kids Art from the Schools
A Best of the School Year Entry  | Ellen
Ranz |
I see every thing I
paint in this world,
but everybody does not see alike.
William Blake The
school year has come and gone, but some things remain. ... Among
those that do remain, we'd have to count the many works of art that the kids
have produced. Whether through a bit of labor and
effort, or in a dash of exuberance, kids' art is something every parent and
teacher knows, and something which many artists have aspired to. ...
. A
work of art is above all
an adventure of the mind.
Eugène Ionesco
.
Over
the course of the school year, coming out of art classes, and out of other
classes, too, there have been any number of art shows and publications.
But it's a fairly safe wager that, in almost as many households as have
younger children in them, there are just so many private galleries where the
works have been prominently displayed. ...
. Art
does not reproduce the visible;
rather, it makes visible.
Paul
Klee
.
For
sure, part of the impetus for posting the work is parental pride. But
there's more to it than that. Whether framed and hung on the wall, or
held with a magnet to the refrigerator door, kids art endures. I still
have the first titled drawing my son did almost twenty years ago, when he was
three, an inspired little thing he called "Medium Flower with
Rabbits." And I keep it, not because he drew it, or not that
only, but because that little drawing keeps speaking to me every time I look
at it. ...
. Art
is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly
pointless, but necessary all
the same.
Günther Grass
.
 | Jasui
Leja |
Insofar as
the art of the young is innocent, there is almost certain to be a freshness
and vitality that age and experience can often dampen. It is
characteristic of the art of the young, then, that the colors are often vivid
and the strokes, almost always bold. ...
Sources
... The pictures in this month's Gallery
come from two sources -- recent submissions from Marian Willmott, an art
teacher at at Shelburne Community School ... and a reprise of some
of the art we'd originally published back in February {Vol.
I, No. 5} from the Kids
Invitational Art Show at the Ferrisburgh Artisans Gallery -- a collection
of works from the Addison, Charlotte, Ferrisburgh, and Vergennes Elementary
Schools which we urge you to peruse if you missed it the first time out.
. Religion
and art spring from
the same root and are close kin.
Willa Cather
.
The
Artists: This month's artists -- from the Kids
Invitational Art Show [KIAS, Addison, Charlotte, Ferrisburgh, and Vergennes
Elementary Schools] and Shelburne Community School [SCS], include ... |
Edie Amblo, 5th Grade {KIAS} Kate
Costello, 5th Grade {KIAS} Ian
Dudley, 6th Grade {SCS} Kyle
Hamblin, 3rd Grade {KIAS} Lindsay
Hartley, 6th Grade {KIAS} Kendra
Haven, 3th Grade {KIAS} Anna
King, 8th Grade {SCS} Sophie
Larson, 6th Grade {KIAS} Jasui
Leja, 8th Grade {SCS} Dominick
Mucklow, 8th Grade {KIAS} Alana
Oren, 6th Grade {KIAS} Tom Pauza,
6th Grade {SCS} Ellen Ranz, 7th
Grade {SCS} Allison Stegner, 7th
Grade {SCS} Eliza Thompson, 5th
Grade {KIAS}
|
Where
to See the Work: In
this month's DownStreet
Gallery. ...
{continue} ... Also
... If you missed it when we first published, don't forget to
check out all of the art work from The
Kids Invitational Art Show that premiered at the Ferrisburgh Artisans
Gallery back in February, and which we were lucky enough to have on display in
the DownStreet
Gallery in Vol. I, No. 5.
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