Welcome to Art Class!...About Me
...and Music...
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners,
she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more
reasonable.
Martin Luther
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the
inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Music was my refuge, I could crawl into the space between the
notes and curl my back to loneliness.
-
Maya Angelou
The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep,
hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.
- Paul
Gauguin
...Some of my favorite quotes about art...
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A line is a dot that went for a walk.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist
once he grows up.
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
Color in a
picture is like enthusiasm in life.
Practice what
you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not
know.
I don't believe in an art that is not born out of man's need to
open his heart. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own
nature into his pictures. |
Monday & Wednesday at McPheeter's Bend
423.357.6822 phone
423.357.6233 fax
Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday at St. Clair
423.235.2721 phone
423.235.2721 fax
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About Miss Holly, Your Art Teacher |
Welcome to art class! I am the art teacher at McPheeter's Bend and St. Clair Elementary Schools. My name is Holly Hughes and this is my third year teaching in Hawkins County. I have lived in Louisiana, Virginia, Wisconsin, Thailand, Germany, Ohio, and Tennessee.
Detail from The Cyclops, Odilon Redon, 1898
I graduated from Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia in 1990 with a BA degree in Art History and a minor in German . For many years, I worked in greenhouses growing plants and doing landscape design. In 2004, I went to graduate school at East Tennessee State University to get a Master of Arts in Teaching degree. I am certified to teach grades K-8 and art K-12. Right now, I am working on a Master's of Professional Studies degree with a concentration in Distance Training and Development.
Ophelia, SIR JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS, 1852
Some of my hobbies are painting, painting, and more painting! I also love to garden, take photographs, read really great stories, and grow flowers. My husband, daughter, and I live in Blountville. We have two dachshunds, three cats, and an old beagle named Old Joe! I love teaching art and treasure everyday I get to share the joy of creative expression with my students.
The Flat Iron , ALFRED STIEGLITZ, 1902
