Out of the Woods Art Studio
Classes and workshops are designed to bring to you art enrichment, while promoting, in all ages, the development of perceptual skill, creative problem solving, critical thinking, cultivation and refinement of the visual language, personal creative discovery while staying in touch with nature.
Why Out of the Woods?
Out of the Woods Art Studio
originated from a love of art and literature and a desire to empower
students with the creativity needed to live contently in a complex
world.
The
name Out of the Woods evokes a wide array of imagery from literature.
For instance, in classic stories we may read, "the woodcutter came from out
of the woods", or ,"their quest helped to lead them out of the woods." Literature takes us to
a creative place, as does art. Creativity helps us to see our world more clearly. When we put creativity into action it can bring us "out
of the woods."
Lastly,
and surprisingly, the name Out of the Woods, which I was not aware of until four years
after naming the studio, is the meaning of my own maiden name, Dudley.
Dudley is Irish for Duda which means, "clearing in the woods." After
learning this, out of curiosity, I looked up my married name. I was even more
greatly surprised to learn that DeBose (DuBoise) means, in French, "wood
cutter who clears the woods." So, Out of the Woods it is!
In Robert Frost's words, "The best way out is always
through!"
(Above art entitled Triune by Jennifer DeBose)
For more information about the value of art education visit:
NGA Kids - online art activities and interaction at the National Gallery of Art.
Visit:
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Art Timeline
Abundant Forest Alliance
Check out
abundantforests.org for ways to creatively and respectively renew and reuse our earths resources.
No Child Left Inside - helping to eliminate "nature deficit disorder"
Jennifer Dudley DeBoseOwner/Instructor
B.F.A. in Fine Art & K - 12 Art Education,
B.A. in Elementary Education
University of Florida
Concordia Teacher's College
Portland State University
Licensed in ESL and Success for All Reading
through Johns Hopkins
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world and all there will ever be to know and understand."
Albert Einstein
