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You and Your StoryAuthor(s): Ruby WilkinsonSource: Art Education, Vol. 16, No. 3, International School Art Program Issue (Mar., 1963), pp.11-13Published by: National Art Education AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3190511 .

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Groups of students were scheduled to give painting and drawing demonstrations in the exhibition galleries during the evening hours.

Short travel movies were presented on Saturday mornings, and book reviews were held in Town Hall in the early afternoons. Dressed in their volunteer

uniforms, boys and girls from the High School Red Cross Council served refreshments at a night recep- tion in the galleries honoring exhibiting students.

Thousands of townspeople saw the exhibit and

enjoyed some of the festival events that accompanied it. Attractive pick-up cards explaining the Inter- national School Art Program were placed at vantage points throughout the galleries. All of them were

picked up long before the exhibit closed. Two 30-minute television programs sparked inter-

est in the exhibit and festival. The first was presented the day before the show opened and featured high school art students and their teacher examining and

commenting on a number of paintings. The second

program, telecast near the close of the exhibit, also included students, but this time the emphasis was on the human values of the International School Art

Program. The actual discussion was unrehearsed, although a general plan had been arranged with the students.

Their evaluation of the International School Art

Groups of students were scheduled to give painting and drawing demonstrations in the exhibition galleries during the evening hours.

Short travel movies were presented on Saturday mornings, and book reviews were held in Town Hall in the early afternoons. Dressed in their volunteer

uniforms, boys and girls from the High School Red Cross Council served refreshments at a night recep- tion in the galleries honoring exhibiting students.

Thousands of townspeople saw the exhibit and

enjoyed some of the festival events that accompanied it. Attractive pick-up cards explaining the Inter- national School Art Program were placed at vantage points throughout the galleries. All of them were

picked up long before the exhibit closed. Two 30-minute television programs sparked inter-

est in the exhibit and festival. The first was presented the day before the show opened and featured high school art students and their teacher examining and

commenting on a number of paintings. The second

program, telecast near the close of the exhibit, also included students, but this time the emphasis was on the human values of the International School Art

Program. The actual discussion was unrehearsed, although a general plan had been arranged with the students.

Their evaluation of the International School Art

Program was so searching and sincere that the tele- vision station was impressed. They offered the loan of the video tape to nearby stations for use on their

public service programs. The midtown location of Foley's and the night shop-

ping hours must have had a great deal to do with the number of fathers who came to the exhibit, most of them with cameras in hand to get a record of their child's gift to someone in another country.

Many parents expressed enthusiasm and apprecia- tion for the experiences their children were receiving from the International School Art Program. They added their conviction that more understanding is needed among the peoples of the world-and they were glad that the expressive and creative paintings of their boys and girls could help.

In education, renewed interest is being focused on the humanities. Suddenly science, technology, arma- ment, and space exploration are making people real- ize the desperate need for just understanding people. The humanness of mankind must be expressed through the creative imagination that makes man "a little lower than the angels." This has a lot to do with the International School Art Program, which offers young students an open door to human understanding. Right now this understanding can include their fellow class- mates and those across the world with whom they are

communicating through their art.

Program was so searching and sincere that the tele- vision station was impressed. They offered the loan of the video tape to nearby stations for use on their

public service programs. The midtown location of Foley's and the night shop-

ping hours must have had a great deal to do with the number of fathers who came to the exhibit, most of them with cameras in hand to get a record of their child's gift to someone in another country.

Many parents expressed enthusiasm and apprecia- tion for the experiences their children were receiving from the International School Art Program. They added their conviction that more understanding is needed among the peoples of the world-and they were glad that the expressive and creative paintings of their boys and girls could help.

In education, renewed interest is being focused on the humanities. Suddenly science, technology, arma- ment, and space exploration are making people real- ize the desperate need for just understanding people. The humanness of mankind must be expressed through the creative imagination that makes man "a little lower than the angels." This has a lot to do with the International School Art Program, which offers young students an open door to human understanding. Right now this understanding can include their fellow class- mates and those across the world with whom they are

communicating through their art.

RUBY WILKINSON/

Photos, Courtesy Cincinnati City Schools

RUBY WILKINSON/

Photos, Courtesy Cincinnati City Schools

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You and your story

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You and your story

An Open Letter to Junior High School Art Students You are a small part of the rapidly changing world.

The age of push buttons, high-speed automobiles, and electric toothbrushes is upon us, and your participa- tion in the International School Art Program should aid in an understanding of your activities in your particular segment of the shifting universe.

Mrs. Ruby Wilkinson is an art teacher, Shroder Junior High School, Cincinnati 8, Ohio

An Open Letter to Junior High School Art Students You are a small part of the rapidly changing world.

The age of push buttons, high-speed automobiles, and electric toothbrushes is upon us, and your participa- tion in the International School Art Program should aid in an understanding of your activities in your particular segment of the shifting universe.

Mrs. Ruby Wilkinson is an art teacher, Shroder Junior High School, Cincinnati 8, Ohio

Your daily routines are a novelty to others who have different habits and customs. The bed from which you rise each morning, the table on which you eat your breakfast, and your bowl of cereal are unfamiliar to

many people of other lands. On the other hand, chop- sticks would give you a great amount of difficulty if

you had to manipulate them before you started your busy daily schedule. As you eagerly cheer your foot- ball team to a startling victory, you seldom realize that many of your demonstrations would need to be

Your daily routines are a novelty to others who have different habits and customs. The bed from which you rise each morning, the table on which you eat your breakfast, and your bowl of cereal are unfamiliar to

many people of other lands. On the other hand, chop- sticks would give you a great amount of difficulty if

you had to manipulate them before you started your busy daily schedule. As you eagerly cheer your foot- ball team to a startling victory, you seldom realize that many of your demonstrations would need to be

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Students give last touches to their ISAP pictures.

explained carefully if they were to have meaning to others. You may not understand why the boomerang returns to the sender or know the rules of rugby, but you could learn to understand by being shown.

You have an individual story to tell about your home, your community, and your activities. A few years ago I taught in an older section of our city, and the view from the art room was composed of many crowded, tall buildings which were gray with the weathering of time and whose roofs supported num- bers of intricate old chimneys. Those structures were densely populated with my students, and many of them told their story of "home" to the world. Just recently I received a letter from India expressing their apprecia- tion of the picture showing "How We Live in Cincin- nati." I read it to my present class, and their response was, "No, that isn't right, we must tell our account." It gave them a challenge to show that there is not just one version of life in our city. This new school envi- ronment is a great contrast, for there are many con- temporary homes, spacious grounds, and added luxu- ries. However, one vicinity is just as important as the other, and you must exercise your creative ability with

equal enthusiasm for all areas as you show your story to the world.

Eagerness to participate in the International Art

Program is fostered by the exchange of ideas and

pictures from young people in other countries. We

enjoyed seeing pictures from Okinawa-of homes with

Learning more about the Senior Red Cross Program.

thatched roofs, the countryside's abundant vegetation, and the city with its narrow, winding streets. How different from our city with its many speeding auto- mobiles which could not pass through some of their streets! An exchange teacher from Australia, who was

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spending a year in our school, was an interesting source of information. His accounts of his school and home life and of his wife and five children gave us new insight into the ways of others. French and Span- ish classes frequently correspond with other countries, and all the knowledge you can accumulate about over- seas friends makes you more eager to share with them the important things in your way of life.

You will profit if you paint "to give" to the Inter- national School Art Program. How could there be a more personal gift than the fruit of your own thoughts and fingers? If you become personally involved in

communicating your experiences, thoughts, feelings, and imaginings with others, you receive that gift. You should choose the time you are ready for recording the experience-an exciting party, a rainy night, or a

Preparing entry blanks for the International School Art Show.

delicious meal might give you the desired inspiration. You will receive much personal satisfaction from such

expression. It may seem almost preplanned that, as I sat writing

this afternoon, the art room door opened and a young man who had advanced from our junior to senior high school came into the room. He was filled with pride and pleasure as he pulled a letter from his jacket pocket. He had caught the first bus after school to come and share with me his joy upon receiving a letter from the American National Red Cross that his work had been selected to become a part of the exhibit scheduled for many localities here and abroad. He was a student who had many personal problems and whose failures were more predominant than his successes, but this was a great victory: he had been successful in

doing something for others. The sharing of a personal triumph is the reward of school teaching, and with that

projecting radiance, we know again that "it is more blessed to give than to receive."

Students work on their entries in the International School Art Program.

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