My Philosophy of Art Instruction
As a practicing visual artist, musician, and writer, my personal philosophy is that everyone is an artist. Everyone starts out with the built-in ability, want, and maybe even, need, to create. With visual art, I use the Betty Edwards philosophy as an example. As creative beings, we believe that if one is able to learn how to write, one is able to learn how to draw.3 If you have the dexterity to write legibly, there is nothing holding you back from creating visually. Drawing, writing, playing music, and any form of creation is, to some level, a teachable skill.
With the arts, we make sure that students are exposed to them just as we would want students exposed to any other subject. In the same way that every student will not grow up to be a professional athlete, astrophysicist, or mathematician, not everyone will grow up to be a professional artist, writer, or musician or an educator of these art forms. However, being exposed to any or all of the aspects and disciplines of the arts provide a way for people of every age to grow and develop creative thinking skills which have proven to transfer to most other disciplines and professions. We, as a world, want and need creative thinkers. Every line of work, at its core, needs problem solvers. The arts help nurture creative thinking skills, which lead to creative problem solving children who grow into creative problem solving adults. Everyone benefits from exposure and immersion in the arts.
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