VISUAL ARTS/LIVING HISTORY PROGRAMS THAT CELEBRATE EACH INDIVIDUAL WHILE BUILDING CONFIDENCE AND COMMUNITY: for all ages, disabilities and abilities, ON and OFF-SITE
 Darcy, teaching a class for "tween" girls |
The Birds of a Feather School is dedicated to providing unique and exceptional learning experiences to a wide range of people of varying ages and abilities/disabilities. The mission is the pursuit of the following principles, modeled by Trent and Darcy:
Commitment: The school teaches its participants how to draw, paint, sculpt, and make collages, prints and more. We encourage and support personal creativity; participants will learn to commit themselves to carrying their work to completion.
Celebration of Diversity: The school is specifically designed to welcome, engage, teach, encourage and support individuals who are physically, emotionally, developmentally challenged, as well as those with differing learning styles.
Responsibility: The school's classes and workshops empower participants to establish their own goals and to make responsible choices in their use of art materials and art-making, and to demonstrate responsibility as members of a community.
Caring/Kindness: At The Birds of a Feather School, a caring, inclusive learning environment exists; sharing, cooperation and kindness are necessary for successful experiences.
Respect: The school focuses on building respect in its participants: for oneself, others, history, art creations and materials, nature, animals and Life.
Honesty/Trust: The school aims to inspire its participants to practice honesty and trust in their relationships with others and to make them more aware of lifeÕs possibilities; they will learn to trust their instincts as artists.
Patience/Perseverance/Forgiveness/Awareness: Inherent in the learning process at our school are patience, perseverance, self-discovery/awareness and forgiveness of "mistakes." "Failure is an essential part of the creative process." Wayne Thiebaud, artist
Courage: The process of thought, action and commitment necessary to participate and create, as well as sharing with the public, requires courage.
-T. Carbaugh and D.M. Swope
Donations are tax-deductible and used to provide interested participants affordable access to art programs, to defray the expense of art supplies and equipment, and to promote travel in hopes of widening the scope of our reach to populations in need.
