All Students Aboard!!!!!!

Today school was fully in swing, all students are back and so are the classes. We had two really full sessions, Forms 1/2 were together learning genre, mediums, and language regarding art. They also did their first set of landscapes in pencil and they are very good. They understand perception, the comprehend form and really like color. The forms 3/4 and Graduates were really going to town with all their newly honed skills related to oil painting. It is amazing. There works are spectacular and I have really no way to comprehend their talent except to realize that the intensity of the art immersion coupled with the years that Margaret and I have been with them has tapped into their truly creative portal and we are the recipients of our work. Today the Asst. Principle Davis Apopo asked me to talk to the Forms 1's boy and girls about the art immersion program in hopes that they will join. Our art immersion program is a choice not a requirement and so he really wants to recruit for it. The unfortunate thing was he told us to be there at 2pm when in fact, he did not ask us to talk to them until 3:20 while Margaret was out getting more supplies. I wish she had been there to hear him describe what we do as well as the one to present to the girls, we always have such few girls compared to boys in art. They gravitate towards drama but had Margaret been there, we would have had more girls today, maybe tomorrow will yield more girls. Hearing David speak was great to realize that even the senior administrators of this school value art. He talked about the immersion program as a way to learn another point of view, to remove yourselves from your books and use your mind in another way. He also was clear to share with the students that this is a program that is different than all others schools, because other schools do not have this type of program.

At the end of classes, Margaret said to me, the new students are just so excited and capable! We are so lucky. Then we walked through the higher levels class and reviewed the work and the art is amazing and advanced. Jacob, whom we believe will get into the Buro Buro School of Art, is doing so well its alarming. He also receives feedback really well. We worked with him at the end of class and it was exciting to see him really take in what we were saying. The truth be told, Margaret and I could not do his accurate and precise oil painting....

These children end up being more and more capable each year. We only provide the tools, they do the rest.

Thanks for being on this journey with us.

Be well.

Charles and Margaret