The Beginning of My Adventure...

On Tuesday, I began my adventure at The ZACC, and I am so excited that I am having this experience, so let me explain how my time at The ZACC is going to be spent!! I am going to be interning here this semester to fill my final studio class credits before I graduate this spring. My time here is going to be spent working with kids ages 4-11 on different art projects throughout the semester. On Tuesday, we began a brand new unit with a new class called Pottery Paradise! Some of the children had already taken classes at The ZACC and are returning students and others were experiencing The ZACC.

At the beginning of the lesson, the kids were a bit apprehensive about it, but the moment they were given some artistic freedom, their attitudes changed completely. The lesson was all about creating clay spoons. The younger children did have some difficulties with it the different steps to create a spoon, but the older children really excelled. By allowing them to create any type of spoon and to decorate it and make it their own, they felt more comfortable with the entire process and much more confident in themselves as well.

Sometimes, art can be a scary thing to students, when they are exposed to new things that they have never done before or even heard of before. But, when we allow them to have some freedom to express and display their creativity the results are endless and wonderful to see.

When I saw the excitement in these kids' eyes, I saw how creativity and artistic starts at such a young age and can only progress; this program at The ZACC allows for that expression to take place.