So much of my childhood influences my art teaching as well as my artwork. My elementary education took place in the best possible setting- the One Room School. Since my teacher had to teach Kindergarten through 6th grade, art was one of those subjects that couldn't be grade specific. So on Fridays, last thing, everyone did the same art project. These projects had to be open ended, so everyone could do them. And we all brought TREASURE BOXES. TREASURE BOXES were shoe boxes filled with the most marvelous things- bits of rickrack and lace, buttons from grandma's button jar, knobs, broom straw, yarn, string,bits of cloth....... Oh, the things you could create! It cost nothing and opened up the imagination!
I am sure that is why I am a mixed media collage artist and so many of my projects for kids have those elements.
So, I continue to have TREASURE BOXES- old Scrabble tiles, buttons, yarn, nothing has changed too much.
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