Dear Friends,
God bless you, your loved ones and your ministries today!
Do you ever find yourself treading too heavily on the choices of others?
I embarrassed myself by doing that with someone recently and am feeling repentant. Whenever something like this happens, I try to see what lesson God has to teach me.
I am interpreting this one as a warning to be extra careful in teaching art in Haiti. I want my lessons to be mostly encouraging, rather than involving too much instruction in traditional Western art. My plan is to provide materials and see what happens as people paint for their first time. I will cheer them on as they develop their own style and not try to get them to do it differently than what comes naturally to them.
Under French rule, the slaves in Haiti where tortured and killed if they created images, so all of the painting and sculptural gifts the slaves brought from their homeland were squelched for centuries. In 1944, DeWitt Peters founded an art center in Port-au-Prince, providing art supplies, instruction and a market for Haitians to create art. That seed blossomed into a vast garden of irresistable art that is collected world wide.
I am looking forward to the opportunity to go to Mizak next winter to "teach" art. but I have a feeling I will do more learning than teaching!
Love, Sue
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