If your art work was good in my elementary or junior high schools, it was hung on the walls outside the classroom or elsewhere in the school for other students and teachers to admire. Mine, erasures evident and lines not quite straight and colors not quite right, was quickly slipped deep into a folder of work to be returned to students.
IF YOU GO
Who: ArtsBuildWhat: Showing of documentary film on the importance of arts educationWhen: Feb. 17 at 5:30 p.m.Where: Greenspaces, 63 E. Main St., ChattanoogaReservations: Call 423-756-2787 or email artsbuild.com.
It was clear early on I would never make my living in portraits and landscapes. Despite both my parents’ talent for drawing, sketching and painting, my work was amateurish at best.
Yet, a couple of creations I made in art classes through the years — sculptures in various mediums — weren’t half bad.
“Timely Towers” was one. Given various pieces of wood in assorted small sizes to choose from, and allowed to use paint for accent, we were asked to use our imaginations to fashion a work of art.