Comments on: ArtBridge lets homeless children of Houston create masterpieces http://www.ashleycecil.com/2007/02/01/artbridge-lets-homeless-children-of-houston-create-masterpieces the Painting Activist Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:10:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: the Painting Activist » Blog Archive » Teaching what I do best http://www.ashleycecil.com/2007/02/01/artbridge-lets-homeless-children-of-houston-create-masterpieces/comment-page-1#comment-2307 the Painting Activist » Blog Archive » Teaching what I do best Sat, 12 May 2007 14:22:45 +0000 http://www.ashleycecil.com/2007/02/01/artbridge-lets-homeless-children-of-houston-create-masterpieces/#comment-2307 [...] Last fall, I was a guest artist at a Houston community center for ArtBridge. The nonprofit organization offers art programs to homeless children as a much needed emotional outlet.  I was given free reign and decided to have the children replicate what I do, with an emphasis on portraiture.  My explanation to them of my work went something like this: “I paint people doing good things.  Sometimes their work is very hard (ie CASA) and it can make them sad.  Then sometimes they get to do things that make them very happy.  I make art of all of it.” [...] [...] Last fall, I was a guest artist at a Houston community center for ArtBridge. The nonprofit organization offers art programs to homeless children as a much needed emotional outlet.  I was given free reign and decided to have the children replicate what I do, with an emphasis on portraiture.  My explanation to them of my work went something like this: “I paint people doing good things.  Sometimes their work is very hard (ie CASA) and it can make them sad.  Then sometimes they get to do things that make them very happy.  I make art of all of it.” [...]

]]> By: Michael-Ann http://www.ashleycecil.com/2007/02/01/artbridge-lets-homeless-children-of-houston-create-masterpieces/comment-page-1#comment-357 Michael-Ann Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:50:06 +0000 http://www.ashleycecil.com/2007/02/01/artbridge-lets-homeless-children-of-houston-create-masterpieces/#comment-357 Thank you for sharing this! I am not a Houstonian, but I am pretty close and I had never heard of this organization before. I will definitely be looking into them more! Jut reading about your interaction with the children is inspiring. What a wonderful approach (yours: journalistic art) to get them to think, talk, understand, and "vent" about the events and people happening/existing in their worlds. Kudos to you! Thank you for sharing this! I am not a Houstonian, but I am pretty close and I had never heard of this organization before. I will definitely be looking into them more!

Jut reading about your interaction with the children is inspiring. What a wonderful approach (yours: journalistic art) to get them to think, talk, understand, and “vent” about the events and people happening/existing in their worlds.

Kudos to you!

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