Longtime Lower School art teacher Kandise Hayes explains how a simple lesson helps develop grit and perseverance in her students.
Kandise HayesLower School Art Teacher
Second-grade students created ‘Delicious Designs’ by using lines and shapes to produce three-dimensional forms to ‘trick the eye.’ Embracing their mistakes by unlocking new ways of working their art, I reminded them that learning from failure brings the sweetness of life to fruition. As our artists worked, we shared this American painter’s words: 'The nerve of failure I think is paramount. Learning by mistakes, modifying, reconstituting, reorganizing.' —Wayne Thiebaud, American painter"