BXXI

What has this experience of working collaboratively added to your understanding of what one learns through art?

I am slightly saddened to say that I didn't have the opportunity to work together with the class because of my contraction of Laryngitis. Mostly depressing, but at the same time I imagine the rest did my mind well. I found myself finding a lot more creative thoughts in my head than before and my hands itching to create. So perhaps I had run my body too far and thus faced the consequences. It's just unfortunate the consequence directly influenced my attendance and participation in the classroom.

However, I can imagine that working together for the rest of the semester will apply to this blog entry. I have found that working collaboratively has given me the understanding that there are SO many levels to art education. Though I hadn't thought that art education was simple and easy, I had no idea how complicated it could be, nor how enriching it could be. The group that I have met and worked with through this year have become great peers, and I have made some great friends as well.

Art is so amazing in it's adaptability and ability to teach so many things - almost in disguise. I did feel like art was something that was a means of communicating many things, and inspiring individuals to do amazing things that are beyond art too, but I never had really followed through in understanding why and witnessing how it was so vast. So this class has been eye opening in that way, and I'm glad I've taken it.