Self-Reflection
Art is Life - Embrace the Journey. I thought of this tagline when I began creating this website. I was most certainly inspired by my Art professor, Annette Gustafson, and her insistence that I look deep within myself to truly understand what art meant to me. She didn't use those words, exactly, but this website is how I interpreted them. I needed to understand on a deeper and big-picture level what art really meant, not just to me, but to the world. As I embark on this journey of mine, I will become a teacher...a teacher of young minds. I will be tasked with guiding them and teaching them, not just about education, but about life as well. By ensuring that arts is integrated into their curriculum, I will be doing them a service and hopefully open a few hearts and minds along the way. As you explore this website, you will see all the different art strands that will be the focus when integrating arts into education. I spent, at least 75 hours putting this site together and I will keep this active for years to come. I will present it to my students and they will visit it once per day. They will follow the links and explore art on their terms. They will add to this site and make it all the more richer. We will take that journey together and I will lead them. That is my promise to them...