19 March 2005
Just a note to say hi and I wanted you to see one of the girls work. We did a 3 dimensional piece using colored paper. They had so much fun with this assignment. This is Rahab. She is very quiet and usually acts like she doesn’t understand. Her English is not good but her work is in art class is delightful. She has the sweetest disposition as she is also withdrawn. I don’t have the vocabulary to describe her. I need to give her instructions many times over. But what a talent. Then, if you can look closely at the drawings of the flip flops on the wall behind her. I asked the girls to draw their shoes and they did very elementary drawings. Then I asked them to draw what they really saw and walked each one through the “ looking at it” when they were done, they got great praises and delight in their work. Especially when I said it was “university work.”
There are some other phenomenal things they do that I am doing a series on as a study to relate the Cultural bias that penetrates their Vision of what they see and do, it is quite beautiful and I think you will enjoy it. I love teaching art. Hey hey.
-Judy
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