Art has always been a particular passion of mine and although I didn't take it as a subject, I am very eager to continue drawing and painting. In past years, I've attended multiple art clubs organised by both teachers and IB students, and I've enjoyed all of them immensely. Moreover, I get the feeling that the other people who come to art club also are able to get something from it, as they can improve both their actual fine art skills and their creativity too.
So for the past few weeks I've been toying with the idea of starting an art club. I found that two other girls, Ira and Katarina, were thinking about something similar, so we joined forces to provide this fun and engaging service for our school, which would not only allow all those who come, to improve their technical abilities and creativity, but it would also help us, the organisers, to grow as artists and as communicators, since we will be participating in the activities, yet helping others too, in whatever way they ask for help. Furthermore, a project as lengthy and consistent as this would need a good amount of dedication, planning and careful time-management in order to make sure that it is compatible with our already mounting academic work.
Our first idea was to do this in the primary school campus nearby. We all like interacting with children, and although they already have an art club, it is quite costly to enroll children in it, so a free club open for all could perhaps introduce art to kids in an interesting and engaging way, that could ignite their interest in their interest in the area. Furthermore, their head teacher is also our head teacher, so getting permission and support to work with the kids would be much easier, especially as we're dealing with small children, from the ages of 3 to 11.
We wanted our club to be on Tuesdays, with one trial run, the success of which would decide the regularity of our visit (whether they would be weekly or once every two weeks for example.) However, while we were deliberating and sorting out minor details, the club list of the primary school was already arranged and sent out to parents. We had arrived a day too late, and our artistic endeavor was rescheduled for the new term in January. This taught us in some ways that communication is vital, especially when doing things like clubs for which there must be a set deadline and date, but the reason we deliberated for so long was because we wanted to make a good impression on the administration. We wanted to have a plan of some sort, and an idea of how we would organise everything, but we just lost track of time, and forgot that the school itself would have official deadlines to meet concerning the information on clubs, even if we weren't faced formally with those deadlines.
This meant that we somewhat rethought our idea, because we definitely didn't want to just wait until January. So we adapted the art club we had been planning to start in the primary school, and are having a meeting to decide the logistics of it soon. We definitely don't want to miss another opportunity by dallying. Whatever lack of decisiveness I showed last time, I fully intend to make up for this time around, and hopefully, next Wednesday lunch time, art club will hit the floor running.
So for the past few weeks I've been toying with the idea of starting an art club. I found that two other girls, Ira and Katarina, were thinking about something similar, so we joined forces to provide this fun and engaging service for our school, which would not only allow all those who come, to improve their technical abilities and creativity, but it would also help us, the organisers, to grow as artists and as communicators, since we will be participating in the activities, yet helping others too, in whatever way they ask for help. Furthermore, a project as lengthy and consistent as this would need a good amount of dedication, planning and careful time-management in order to make sure that it is compatible with our already mounting academic work.
Our first idea was to do this in the primary school campus nearby. We all like interacting with children, and although they already have an art club, it is quite costly to enroll children in it, so a free club open for all could perhaps introduce art to kids in an interesting and engaging way, that could ignite their interest in their interest in the area. Furthermore, their head teacher is also our head teacher, so getting permission and support to work with the kids would be much easier, especially as we're dealing with small children, from the ages of 3 to 11.
We wanted our club to be on Tuesdays, with one trial run, the success of which would decide the regularity of our visit (whether they would be weekly or once every two weeks for example.) However, while we were deliberating and sorting out minor details, the club list of the primary school was already arranged and sent out to parents. We had arrived a day too late, and our artistic endeavor was rescheduled for the new term in January. This taught us in some ways that communication is vital, especially when doing things like clubs for which there must be a set deadline and date, but the reason we deliberated for so long was because we wanted to make a good impression on the administration. We wanted to have a plan of some sort, and an idea of how we would organise everything, but we just lost track of time, and forgot that the school itself would have official deadlines to meet concerning the information on clubs, even if we weren't faced formally with those deadlines.
This meant that we somewhat rethought our idea, because we definitely didn't want to just wait until January. So we adapted the art club we had been planning to start in the primary school, and are having a meeting to decide the logistics of it soon. We definitely don't want to miss another opportunity by dallying. Whatever lack of decisiveness I showed last time, I fully intend to make up for this time around, and hopefully, next Wednesday lunch time, art club will hit the floor running.
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