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Art with a Purpose Series:
Other Classes: How to be a SUPER POWER | JUST 4 JOY | SOUL SEARCH
Home | Available Classes | Art From Home Initiative | About Tamlin | Student Art Work | Printables | Contact
Other Classes: How to be a SUPER POWER | JUST 4 JOY | SOUL SEARCH
These 6 art classes are part of a curriculum I developed for students who want to learn more about themselves through the creative process. You may create these assignments just for joy, or you may want to use them for insight into who you are.
In the past, some of my students, who may have had difficulty expressing their thoughts and ideas, have moved forward in their lives because of the visuals they created from these lessons, (and the thought process during and afterwards).
So, if you want to know where you are NOW and where you want to BE…
my ‘ART with a Purpose’ 6-class series is for you.
Let’s get started.
Class Descriptions:
Each class has several pages you may want to download:
* Lesson plan (with National Art Standards and topics for discussion)
* Supply list
* Visual Aids
Anyone who knows Tamlin is aware that she has a passion for EMPOWERING her art students through the creative process. This has been her life- long mission, starting early-on.
But I’m sure most of you don’t know how/when/where this dedication began.
Tamlin had an experience that solidified her life’s direction while teaching her first year of ART in the Grand Rapids Public School System. Tamlin was an Art Consultant with 5 schools, a different one each day. Two schools were hard-core, black inner-city, one was privileged white, and two schools were middle-class students from blue collar families.
Half way into her first year Tamlin was in an auto accident that kept her in the hospital for several weeks. In that amount of time her art students drew pictures for their beloved art teacher and Tamlin’s mom taped the art-work up on the hospital walls according to the schools they came from.
After a week of drowsy recuperation Tamlin noticed the growing display of art on the wall. She immediately observed a huge difference between each school of students. The affluent, white students painted flowers and hearts with glitter and smiles, while the underprivileged black students drew detailed car crashes, blood and guts. The difference was glaring and jumped off the wall.
This was the first time Tamlin realized how “images/symbols/visuals” represent the fundamental ideologies embedded in an individual’s understanding. And these viewpoints come from our environmental upbringing.
This epic observation was the beginning of Tamlin’s 40 year journey in appreciating the power art has in expressing inner thoughts and ideas. Since that revelation, Tamlin has taught art with an underlying grasp that…
Hello, currently this series is almost ready.
If you are interested in this or any other series and want to know when it will be available, please email Tamlin directly at tamlinall@gmail.com and let her know which series you are interested in.
