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This time last year I was waking up to the booming sounds of drums. This year I was out of town, and subsequently missed all of the festivities taking place in San Francisco this weekend. Luckily, Visual Flaneur captured San Francisco’s Carnival through vibrant sketches like this one.
Only 8% of Bay Area schools are meeting the state minimum standards of art education. Young Audiences of Northern California Executive Director Kris Murray met with NBC’s Class Action to discuss some solutions.
Is it me, or was photography seriously underrepresented at artMRKT and ArtPadSF this weekend? Maybe this observation was magnified by my sandwiching the art fairs between SFMOMA’s Viva Photofilm and the Moholy Ground Magazine Launch Party at Photobooth SF.
Either way, the fairs served as a healthy reminder for me to focus on building a body of work.
SFMOMA Family Sundays have been exploring conceptual art. As a volunteer I have been able to see how visiting families interpret the programming in some amazing ways. I have seen children turn Buckminster Fuller Geodesic Domes into helicopters, windmills, and more.
This is a video of how one child made his piece mobile by turning it into a top. Notice how he still relied on the use of triangles to build a solid structure.
Talking to @creativitykids C.I.T.Y Teen Program about taking an analog approach to @instagram (Taken with Instagram at Children’s Creativity Museum)
Today I took a trip to Chinatown to discuss Young Audiences of Northern California arts programming with the folks at the Chinese Education Center. This school serves Chinese families who have very recently immigrated to America. Their students are learning English for the first time, and adjusting to a new way of life.
After speaking with the school’s Program Coordinator, I learned that many of the children in this school are coming from a Chinese education with little emphasis in the arts. By integrating the arts into their classroom there is the potential to reinforce English Language Arts while introducing these children to American culture. It gives me great pleasure to work with schools throughout the Bay Area in helping them use arts education as a tool in the classroom.
(Source: YA-NC.ORG)
