“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have lots of dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solution without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”
–Steve Jobs
One of the great rewards of our children going to an art magnet is the range of arts experiences they have the opportunity to engage in - regularly. I had no idea how vast it was until I started organizing photographs. I put together just a sampling of Anders experiences over the last few years, ranging from the visual arts to drama, dance, and music. These are just a few...and do not capture the additional exposure they have to the exquisite range of exemplary artistic performances they have seen and experienced both within the school building as well as out of the building at our local theater. I know they are so lucky.
Singing at his Spring concert with his classmates
Taiko drumming and taiko performance
Art class at the local art museum.
Printmaking experience at a local printmaking studio
Back stage tour and on stage class at our local performing arts center
Warming up with a national dance teaching artist from the Kennedy Center
Printing a self designed t-shirt at a local graphic arts studio
Performing a dance about the lunar cycle
Working on a math painting with an artist in residence
Getting Salsa and merengue lessons with a local dance instructor
Pantomiming a text in reading with our drama coach
Learning to throw a bowl on the potters wheel at the clay studio