Everyartist

On November 21, 2013, we will launch Everyartist Live! - a national, collaborative art event to engage a million elementary school children– the largest art event in history.

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We are proud to present this animated short about Everyartist and our national children's art event, Everyartist Live!, taking place November 21st.  Ready to join us in our mission to #sparkcreativity? Sign up at https://signup.everyartist.me/

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Another great post from 24/7 MOMS about why#creativitymatters!  "Today, I want to talk about how to keep up with your child’s “art spark”. From what I’ve learned, raising my kids, is that, while it seems at certain ages they’ve lost that art spark, as they grow older it’s not that their creativity begins to dissipate, but that their creativity begins to enter into new realms..."

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"If you follow the blog or spend any time with me, this statement should not come as a surprise, #creativitymatters.  I am a strong believer in fostering creativity and encouraging your inner artist, so when the opportunity arose to partner as an affiliate with Everyartist.me to promote creativity and encourage children to participate in art, I could not pass it up!" 

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"Certainly our students need to learn math, science, and all of these other things. However, I would argue if each of us has things that we are made to do and those things are pulled from us, then we will pull away from the thing that pulls us away from what we love. Kids are creative and they need it in the classroom."

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24/7 Moms just posted this amazing article on Sibling Bonding Through Art as a part of our #CreativityMatters campaign. Such a great story! Join the conversation by tagging your posts and support the cause by signing up to participate in Everyartist Live!

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This is the power of a great educator or mentor: The legendary Milton Glaser – creator of the iconic I♥NY logo, co-founder of New York Magazine, considered by many the greatest graphic designer alive – tells this stirring story of “how twenty seconds can change your life”: 

When I was in junior high school, I had the opportunity to take the entrance examination to either Bronx Science, which is a great New York school, or the High School of Music and Art, another great school. … And I had a science teacher who was very encouraging for me to enter into science — I was very good at science — and he wanted me to go to Bronx Science. And I was evasive about that, because I didn’t want to tell him that it ain’t gonna happen.

But the day of the entrance exam — they occurred on the same day — I took the entrance examination to the High School of Music and Art. And the next day I came into school, he was in the hallway as I was walking down, and he said, “I want to talk to you.” I said, “Uh-oh — the jig is up, he’s going to find out I took the ‘wrong’ exam.” He said, “Come to my office… Sit down.” And, as I was sitting there, he said, “I hear you took the exam for Music and Art.” And I said, “Um, yes.” And then he reached over, and he reached into his desk, and he pulled out a box of French Conté crayons — a fancy, expensive box — and he gave it to me, and he said, “Do good work.”

I can’t tell that story without crying, because it was such a profound example of somebody — an adult, authority figure, sophisticated man — who was willing to put aside his own desire for something, his own direction for my life, and recognize me as a person who had made a decision. And he was, instead of simply acknowledging it, encouraging it with this incredibly gracious and generous gift. … The thing about it that always astonishes you is that moment — it couldn’t have taken more than two minutes — was totally transformative about my view of life, my view of others, my view of education, my view of acknowledging the other.

Send this to every educator or mentor you know, and think of what would be possible if we were all capable of such self-transcendence for the sake of elevating another’s potential. 

Watch the interview, superb in its entirety, here.

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Show us why #creativitymatters to you! Tag your posts and join the movement at signup.everyartist.me.

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The theme for this year's Everyartist Live! is Gratitude. We just received this creative interpretation of Gratitude from a 10 year old ArtKid in Georgia, who is gearing up for November 21st. Do you want to see how your children and students visually interpret Gratitude? Sign-up to be a a local event coordinator and help kids participate in Everyartist Live! on November 21st, 2013. https://signup.everyartist.me/

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Boston Globe (front page news!)

Brendan & Everyartist.me made the front page of the Boston Globe today.  Check it out:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/style/2013/07/23/warhol-walmart-visits-boston/XTQELEwN1tcAN0wVgfmeVL/story.html?camp=fb#skip-target