Art Aware at the Kroc Center

It was hard to part with some of the reproductions of famous paintings I had used in Art Aware elementary school classes in Camden for the past 20 years.

But the people I gave them to were distinguished members of the Kroc Center and were art lovers and knew the value of encouraging kids to do their own art, so it was less painful giving them away.

We exhibited the children’s artwork , much of which had been influenced by the paintings, next to the reproductions, so that visitors to the Kroc Center could see how multicultural Camden elementary school students can be.

For a brief time it felt like the Kroc Center Town Plaza was expanding to a place where the nuts and bolts of Camden art education could be shared.

Here a sample of the Art Aware exhibition and give-away.