Kids and parents alike come to the workshops at the museum sponsored by Target. They're Friday afternoons during the summer and we work in the Carriage House classroom, looking out at the ocean, crafting artistic works that are fun and consuming. The first time I helped, we had 30 people every half hour in 4 rotations. We constructed a sketch book with accordion pages and a cover. It took folding, gluing and following directions. It was a dynamic 2 hours with 99% success rate. There was one little boy telling me I was showing him incorrectly, and pushed me away, so I left him alone. His mother looked at his sketch book after he was done and said, "You did it wrong."
Today we had only 30 people for the whole two hours. It was relaxed and breezy as the wind from the ocean blew in at a gentle tempo bringing the salty scent of summer. We traced all kinds of shapes and portraits and modern abstracts with pencils, colored pencils and markers. No right way, no wrong way, just head down, hands on creativity. Genesis on a summer's day.
Two moms and I started chatting, one a teacher, the other a counselor. The counselor helped high schoolers find their interests and head off to college. The teacher was looking for full time work, but was settling for long term substituting duties with 3rd graders. It was all gab about kids, passions, letting the choices kids make for high school come from their inner vision not their parents. It was all about cool documentaries like Paper Clips, Word Play, and Spellbound.
We ended with the teacher getting information from the counselor about how one becomes an art therapist. It was a very satisfying day.
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