San+Antonio

Justification for arts education:
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/importance.htm

Lesson in ekphrasis
http://readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view_printer_friendly.asp?id=1093

Poems about art from 2008-09 students
Van Gogh, The Starry Night **Coming Down to the Question** by Amanda E.

The night sky above shines and swirls, Streaking soft curves of light Across this unending ceiling We live under. The mountains scrape across the scene, Grasping for stars just out of reach. The gloomy tree sways under the weight of the heavens, But does not falter. The village sits, quietly, between, Gazing in wonder at the world above. And the skies, Rippling across the mountain range, Whisper to the tree, Gazing upon the village, Marveling at the world below.


 * Visions of Eternity, Salvadore Dali**

By Joanna R.

I perch Upon this arch, Looking down Upon my asymmetrical world, Sky indistinguishable from earth. I burn From the inside out And see eternity In time and space, Like a heretic in an open grave. My essence peels off And flits away, Like disintegrating wisps of clouds, Yet the figure with the net Catches nothing. Beans of grey pile up beneath me, And scatter on the horizon of the wasteland, Breaking the monotony.