The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-13
DraWingPupilsA Award
ed High Honors at a
Recent Exhibit.
Work Ranks with Worlds Best
schO0I VIII Also Re Honored by a
Visit From Mr John spencer
Clark. of BostOn.

To the Editor'-Preparations hav
been going on for some time past in th
drawing department OF the publ
schools, arranging for representative
exhibit to be sent to Detroit at the West
.ern Drawing Teachers convention, which
assembled there the 4th to the 9th o
ing educators OF the country marks q
renaissance or rebirth IN the educational
world. The subject OF drawing or art
education in it's wide reaching relation
to the public school work has become a
great factor in it's development. The
fact that the mind is not simply a reposi-
tory into which store OF facts ia to be
poured, but that it is the most precious
and delicate OF growths. that in order to
be perfectly symmetrical it must be in
huenced by all the culture, in environ
ment and association that marks the
distinction between the Australian Bush
nen and the enlightened leaders of the
nineteenth century,
In every child there are latent powers
in which lie foreseen the possibility of a
Michael Angelo or Beethoven. Art ed
ucation recognizes this fact and by care
full guidance the child is led to express
IimSefin most natural and yet in a
most effective manner-and is not simply
a parrot, repeating the thought OF the
text book. This desire to rep oduce the
life around him and project the life with
in him is evident TO the student of child
life in his earliest play. He sings, he
builds, he draws, he paints, he models and
he plays little dramas and the same deep
Impulse that inspires the child to play
later inspires the man to art.
All that is enduring, all that we have
OF prehistoric man is his art, and this ia
our only means to study the develop
ment OF the human race.
That the work appeals to the children
and that it is something that they have
not simply learned, but loved, is evident
TO any casual observer who will study for
a moment the drawing exhibit in our
public schools. The fact that prophet
is not without honor save in his own
country" seems to have been verified in
the preseDt instance. for the work which
has grown ia our midst from the small
est beginning four years ago, has claimed
the attention of educators both east and
lialn
not only az the great copper country,
but that great educational problems
have been tried and results obtained
which place the drawing IN our public
schools on par with the best in the
world.
That there is a genuine ring in these
words is proven by the fact that Mr..
John Spencer Clark, of Boston, who
stands at the head OF the art educational
movement in America and is recognized
leader in the thought world was suffi.
GENTLY impressed with the exhibit sent
from Calumet that he wished Co see the
work personally and will visit Calumet
next week.
No one will challenge the assertion that
Calumet will entertain guest OF honor,
one who has been personally associated
with Emerson. Lowell, Longiellow and
Whittier. Mr.. Clark has consented to
talk before Calumet audience and it
will be a great privilege to listen to bis
lecture on "Industrialand Art Education"
which will be given at the Opera House
next Wednesday evening. The public is
cordially invited to attend. Come, and
show by your presence that you recog-
nize the work that has been done for
your children.
The proceeds are to be devoted to en-
largIng the art department OF our
schools.
remain respectfully.
Yours for the cause,
K. N. GoLDswoRTHY.
Superintendent OF Drawing, Calumet