1. live demonstrations help students.
2. Vulnerability helps students (in other words-we all make mistakes and we can fix them.)
3. Students know whose work is good-Prof. Jones asked the students to choose the best work in the class (Ms. Jones asked us to hang our work on the bulletin board and then the students chose the “A” work, etc. She taught us that we knew what was well-executed and what was not!
I was shocked that she and David Driskell remembered ME years later! I have looked for Leo Robinson (a California artist, Lila O Asher found me a couple of years ago…My favorites were: Lois Mail Jones, David Driskell, sculptor, Ed Love who told me to meet Richard Hunt and Martin Puryear (among other advice) when I moved to Chicago. I learned, over time, that it’s not about how good you are, but about who knows you! (Credit me for this quote, please) I was admitted to Yale University in the 1970’s..I applied to only one university at the time .A collector found my work because she loved Jacob Lawrence! Maybe more to come…