These kids have never, I mean never, done anything like that unless there is self discipline enough that the kid has simply drawn at home. Nothing prepares you for that. We have tried to have prep classes to prepare kids for this because you don't just come out of cutting doilies and do this. And it's very extensive in drawing right of the bat because you study when you go there with some important artist who is going to make you draw and paint six hours a day. We just aren't prepared for that.
Nobody here is, really.
Dickson High School art instructor Dana Boyd hangs her students' artwork in the Charles B. Goddard Center galleries as part of the annual All School Exhibit, which includes works from students at Lone Grove, Plainview and the Methodist Preschool. Steve Biehn Working in conjunction with Communities in Schools and several area elementaries, Hamilton has put a program in motion to help the youngest artists get extensive education in the basic elements of art. She convinced the teachers that students needed more than a year to learn the seven elements and 20 principles of art, which include things like line, shape, color, form and artist's intent and what it all means. She helped me with Lincoln because they can walk over here. Paula Maddon and Kipp Crutchfield bring them over and teach art.