Voices..

This year the theme for working with underserved populations is "Voices".  Sometimes, people with the least audience and the softest voice inspire the most thought provoking insights.  I once had a student who was painting with black ink on top of wrinkled foil exclaim, " Look what art does to itself!", as she watched the blackness remain in the crevices to reveal shining peaks and valleys as she wiped off  the ink.

This week, working at the Center for the blind, we experimented with our texture rollers on slabs of clay for beautiful results.  The raised surface will be seen clearly after pulling up the sides to form trays and then glazing with low fire translucent glazes.  Just in time for a Thanksgiving feast!

Students from art classes for children with cognitive and physical challenges created self portrait bags to hold their work. We looked at self portraits of Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso (better known by one student as Pablo Kielbasa) and Leonardo da Vinci.