Teaching is to excite and inform. To present innovative paths and openings for students to explore their place in history and assist them in creating a greater vision. It is a necessity to open a larger understanding and evoke compassion for this universe. Through the act of play, experimentation, conceptualization, critical investigation and formulation new avenues of understanding are created and a greater self-awareness is realized. The act of becoming aware of our own gesture, through the aesthetic experience, allows for a greater comprehension of how we interact and live in this visual culture. By teaching through the act of art making and cross-disciplinary understanding, we can connect with that part of our selves which moves, informs and lives in dimensional space.

Rachel