Central Idea: Artists Can Help Us Find Beauty In Our World
We all find certain things or places beautiful. Whether the place has a home in our imagination or in our reality.
Have you ever been to a place that you connected with? Somehow it probably touched your senses. You felt something inside. For me it was my grandma's house. I don't know if you can "carefully" look, but I remember looking carefully at the trinkets on her dresser...a little brass bell, an ornate hand mirror, a little black box. I still think of it often. As humans we can all connect to places and find them beautiful for whatever reasons feel right at that moment . After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say. If we choose to, as artists, we can respond in personal and creative ways. These are some of the responses to beauty in our world, from Kinder through 5th grade. That's the thing about exploring "big ideas", it doesn't matter whether you're 6, 16, or 96, they are a part of that which we call Home.
