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 * = Welcome to the Art Room = ||
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 Hello! My name is Brenda Sosa and I am the Hartford elementary art teacher for the West Central School District. For nine years I have been teaching art at all levels from toddler to high school students. During my student teaching experience at Whittier Middle School, I developed an overarching objective for my students: Find and establish a connection to art in your everyday worlds. Today, I continue to strive for that objective by creating thorough meaningful lessons with demonstrations, encouraging active participation by all students at every level, and clearly stating objectives following local, state, and national standards. My focus is to encourage each individual student to find that connection through art in their community, homes, nation, and world. || "Postcard from God" by Ken Done, 1976  ||   || "Evening Flowers" by Pablo Picasso  ||   ||
 * "Art shouldn't be something that you go quietly into an art gallery and dip your forelock and say 'I have to be very quiet, I'm in here amongst the art.' It's here, art's everywhere. It's how you use your eyes. It's about the enjoyment of visual things. And it's certainly not for any one group of people." Quote from Ken Done. ||  [[image:http://bs169.k12.sd.us/images/Postcard_from_God_1975_b_small1.jpg width="100" height="63" link="http://bs169.k12.sd.us/images/Postcard_from_God_1975_b.jpg"]]
 * "Art shouldn't be something that you go quietly into an art gallery and dip your forelock and say 'I have to be very quiet, I'm in here amongst the art.' It's here, art's everywhere. It's how you use your eyes. It's about the enjoyment of visual things. And it's certainly not for any one group of people." Quote from Ken Done. ||  [[image:http://bs169.k12.sd.us/images/Postcard_from_God_1975_b_small1.jpg width="100" height="63" link="http://bs169.k12.sd.us/images/Postcard_from_God_1975_b.jpg"]]
 * == Everything I Needed To Know I Learned in the Art Room == ||  ||
 * By Shawn Costello ||  ||
 * * Never say anything unkind about something a classmate has created.
 * Don't hog all the colors.
 * A picture is more interesting with contrast, movement and different points of view, so is life.
 * Be kind to yourself if all your pictures don't turn out, it happens to all artists.
 * Your most patient model is the one in the mirror...Learn from looking at yourself and be patient.
 * Say it with paper pop-ups, folded books, or little pasted pictures, making something for someone else can be a holy act - do it often.
 * Keep an open mind about different kinds of art...something unforeseen may become part of your expression some day.
 * Purple houses, pink grass...there's no right or wrong to color your picture. Honor your creative voice. It's what makes you unique.
 * Take a rest or a break during a project, solutions become more clear, ideas can grow.
 * Paint from the heart. It will show and others will sense it. ||  ||   ||
 * "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up!" Quote from Pablo Picasso ||

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