When I was a small child, my grandfather would draw caricatures as I watched amazed. He was a very intelligent man who led a very simple life. He was a house painter and quite a good one at that. People actually flew him in from other states to paint their houses if he had ever had a hand in painting a previous house they had owned. I always wondered how a man so talented could paint houses for a living. I later realized that he had a passion for his work. He wanted to be the best at what he did no matter what it was. As crazy as it seemed, he chose a job of hard work and repetitiveness but he was one of the best house painters in the small town I grew up in. He was a man of great character and had a passion for what he did.
Through my life that has stuck with me. I always want to have a crazy passion for what I do no matter what it is. As an art teacher, I want to share my passion for making art with my students. I believe we all have an innate desire to create through art, music, cooking, writing, inventing, building and other avenues too numerous to name. In order to create in any way you must have a passion for it or it falls flat. Without passion you are just "going through the motions". I want my students to embrace art with a passion. I want them to seek out experiences that involve art, to crave the time when they are engrossed in creating and to connect those moments to other areas of learning and working throughout their lives.
I am an artist that is a teacher of art. Like my grandfather, I strive to be a person of great character and passion in everything I do. My intent is to share that and influence my students to approach life and learning with crazy passion and great character. My grandfather has big shoes to fill but I'm ready for the challenge.
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