Sculpture and education

It's not good to read academic journals in bed, because you can wind up agitated and shouting!

The lead article, Century of the Child: Growing by Design by James F Cooper in American Arts Quarterly has this screamer: The members of the National Committee for Standards in Arts Education K- 12 opposed introducing sequential educational knowledge, such as drawing, anatomy, nature, composition and design.

The chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts upheld the ruling, saying: "teaching students to draw from the human figure is revisionist and stifles creativity."

Ignorance also stifles creativity. 
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Would you teach geography without referencing maps or images of the earth?  
Math without using numbers? 
English without a basic understanding of sentence structure?

To teach Art without offering the traditional skills of centuries of art making is absurd.
Save us all from the people in charge of arts education!

Sculpture and Proposals

 Sometimes an orientation meeting can be very Disorienting.

........As in realizing that my proposed sculpture won't work with the site.

All of the site orientation talk was of trees and nature, community and history,
the site felt more like this photo.

Yes, there are trees, but there's also a major highway, full of cars going fast.
Then there will be trolley trains, a narrow planting buffer, then a bike and pedestrian "trail".
Trail implies a walk in the woods. Think freeway for bikes and fast, able bodied walkers.

I'd proposed a tall, vertical carving. There's no vista in this section. No one is going to be looking up if it feels like that would endanger your life.

This site needs anchoring and a feeling of safety, a place to pause by stepping out of all the traffic.

Time for plan B.