Just a quick note of hello! I am very excited to begin my teaching career at South Hardin Middle School and work with the students! I look forward to guiding them in the art-making techniques and problem solving/creative processes. Second semester I will teach at the BCLUW middle school in Union. During second semester, please encourage your students to keep “nourishing their creativity.”
~Ms. Holcomb
One of my passions, and reasons that I became an art teacher, is that I believe that everyone is an artist. Yes, even you! There are many forms of art and it is part of our make-up to be creative. However, there comes a point in every person's life when they either accept or reject their artistic abilities, usually around the Middle School years. The problem is, and you won't believe how many times I hear this from adults, many people start to associate "being an artist" with "how well they can draw." Often when people find out that I'm an Art Teacher they tell me how they can't draw, as if that is the determining factor that makes them "artistic" or not. Drawing is a learned skill and takes practice, just like sports and anything else. But it is only ONE expressive technique. You are an artist, whether you can draw or not!
A question I like to discuss with students is "What is Art"? There really isn't a specific answer to this question. Art is about perspective, how you see the world. Art is about problem solving and the decisions we make each day. Art is the choices you make that change the world, even in the slightest, for good or bad. Art is self-expression. Through this questions, students can begin to see that there really isn't "Right Art" and "Wrong Art" (which can be challenging when our tendency is to want one straight-forward answer) and that they are all Artists.
~Ms. Holcomb
One of my passions, and reasons that I became an art teacher, is that I believe that everyone is an artist. Yes, even you! There are many forms of art and it is part of our make-up to be creative. However, there comes a point in every person's life when they either accept or reject their artistic abilities, usually around the Middle School years. The problem is, and you won't believe how many times I hear this from adults, many people start to associate "being an artist" with "how well they can draw." Often when people find out that I'm an Art Teacher they tell me how they can't draw, as if that is the determining factor that makes them "artistic" or not. Drawing is a learned skill and takes practice, just like sports and anything else. But it is only ONE expressive technique. You are an artist, whether you can draw or not!
A question I like to discuss with students is "What is Art"? There really isn't a specific answer to this question. Art is about perspective, how you see the world. Art is about problem solving and the decisions we make each day. Art is the choices you make that change the world, even in the slightest, for good or bad. Art is self-expression. Through this questions, students can begin to see that there really isn't "Right Art" and "Wrong Art" (which can be challenging when our tendency is to want one straight-forward answer) and that they are all Artists.