On June 7th, Arts Corps held the end-of-the year Teaching Artist Meeting.

Our veteran master teaching artist Vicky Edmonds took us on an astonishing journey to deeply reflect on what teaching means for us.  Using her wizard technique of encouraging all of us to submerge into our soul to inundate our papers with words of hope and confidence on what we do. Thanks Vicky. Reader, please find below, some excerpts.”

“….teaching is like gardening sewing wildflowers, volunteers and heirlooms….” (Stephany Hazelrigg)

“ …. Is like the tide, sure as the pull of the moon….”    (Elizabeth Whitford)

“….my students demand that I become my better self sooner than I had dreamed….”  (Aaron Walker-Loud)

“….hidden light in the soul, getting out to the light of the sun….”  (Tomas Oliva)

“…the process of creating is like a metamorphosis…finally emerging to spread its

wings and shine…”   (Lana Sundberg)

“… you think nobody likes the meat. …when the class is over, everyone is hungry for more….” (Geoff Garza)

“…teaching is like eating a watermelon with a lot of seeds…” (Amber Flame)

“…teaching is like a nap in the spring… one finds renewal in both light and storm…”  (Sean O’Neill)

“….teaching is like Che Guevara walking unarmed into the storm…” (Daniel Pak)

“….burns and breaths things and in to its smallest and most basic

elements of truth…”  (Arturo Rodriguez)

“…my art is like …..erupting in red and purple, dark and yearning for light….” (Lara Davis)

“….celebration and love encouraged those children whose explored arts without fear the beauty (Eduardo Mendonça)