Creative Story

Mary Lee 7th Grade Art Class

MARY LEE 7TH GRADE ART CLASS• In the school I attended in 7th grade all students had to take an art class. I had not

ever tapped into my art ability but I was very creative as a child because we made sling shots and pop guns from old broom sticks and cut of water hoses. I also was the neighborhood best pop bottle doll maker, where I used what we use to call is sea grass, and clothes pins. My teacher instructed us to make objects from clay. My first time ever knowing that clay was baked in an oven and then painted. The instructions gave no point system, nor any models to go buy, but we could have used something from a book. I decided to make an astray for my dad as he was a smoker. My creativity was hindered that year because I did not do a good job of making the ashtray even though it was to the best of my ability my teacher kind of laughed as did the whole class. It was not a wrong or right way established to do it .

MARY LEE 7TH GRADE ART CLASS

• The teacher did not help me to embrace my personal identity as to establish who I was at that time in my life. She laid no foundation as to what she expected it to look like so I created what I wanted it to look like.

• The teacher did not help me to be innovated in my ideas as my version of an ashtray.