The Art in Teaching Art by Kylie
Kylieof Portland's entry into Varsity Tutor's August 2017 scholarship contest
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The Art in Teaching Art by Kylie - August 2017 Scholarship Essay
If I was a college professor I would want to teach a visual arts class. I am personally very fascinated with art and I appreciate all different forms of it. I have always had a positive experience with art and my art teachers at school; I would want to provide the same positive experiences I was fortune enough to have.
However, I would specifically want to teach a drawing and painting class as well as a photography class. Drawing is something I do to express myself and to refresh my thoughts. Whatever is on my mind or any anger built up inside of me can be transcended through a pen or pencil. I’m continuously impressed by the control a person has over a rod of lead and a paintbrush to create something bigger and better than the picture itself. The pieces with stories behind it and the conversation sparked from it makes them timeless creations that need more recognition. It would be an honor to have students that share such vulnerable and meaningful aspects of their lives with myself and a group of people.
Photography is also something I have grown to love over my time in high school. I took two black and white photography classes and I fell in love with the simplicity of it. With black and white photography, lighting and composition are key because there’s no color to depict emotion. Oddly enough, I think the lighting and contrast in black and white photography shows more while saying less. Due to this, it would be exciting to teach such an old and kind of forgotten craft to people that might have never experienced it before.
Art is something I think you can always improve at. No matter how good or bad you are, there is something new you can try and get better at. Being able to look back at old work and see the progression is something not every class can give you; it’s a rewarding thing to be able to see the time you've put into something has paid off, especially when you're the professor guiding them to their end goal.
