Look at this amazing teacher showcased in the most recent Delta Arts Alliance newsletter! Full interview below! We caught up with Amanda Delperdang, the summer arts instructor for the week of July 17th (our last week of summer programming!), for a quick Q&A. Check out what she had to say! Q: This is your second summer teaching with the Delta Arts Alliance. How excited are you to be returning? A: On a scale of 1-10, I'm definitely a 10 in excitement. I love teaching at DAA. Q: Why is the Delta Arts Alliance important? A: DAA is important because it provides fun, motivational, and educational programs for kids in a rural area where access to the arts can be limited. Q: Why is arts education important? A: Arts education is important because it connects learning with life. So often kids learn something and forget it, sometimes it seems immediately after being taught! But art gives them the context and the experience that puts that knowledge in their heads as something important that needs to be remembered. Not only does it help with memory but the arts build critical thinking and problem solving skills vital for our kids' future jobs. Q: What can kids expect from your classes? A: My classes are going to cover a broad range of skills and subjects. Two of the classes are going to focus on the design process. The students will be presented with a challenge, like "what if we didn't have stairs?", and then we'll walk through a process of how to design a solution to that specific problem. This is called Design Thinking and Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon will be focused on this skill, but with different challenges so that each class is different. Tuesday afternoon, we'll be exploring the world of Abstract Expressionism. We're going to look at the art of Wassily Kandinsky and discuss his process and how the elements and principles of art can be used to express emotion. We'll then do as Kandinsky and paint our own abstract expressionist work while listening to different genres of music. Thursday morning, we'll be working with yarn as we explore how different cultures use fibers and patterns to express important aspects of their daily life.
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