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Rick Anthony Diaz in Kindergarten.
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Rick Anthony Diaz is an artist and educator who has been teaching drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, printing and design since 1995. He has taught kindergarten to high school in a variety of venues including public and private schools, museums, community centers and after-school programs in the New York City metropolitan area.
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Teaching Philosophy
Several philosophies and practices followed by Rick Anthony Diaz:
Rick Anthony Diaz teaching at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold - A Painting by Charles Demuth, 1928.
- Experience painting, collage, sculpture and printing as well as portraits, landscape, still life, abstract, conceptual.
- Draw from observation and from their imagination.
- Develop hand-eye coordination & motor-skills.
- Explore a variety of materials including found, recycled and natural.
- Be encouraged to solve problems creatively.
- Understand that art is a process that takes time and care.
- Learn the basics of color theory.
- Express oneself creatively making art
- Combine art with literacy making art insoired by books
- Understand the tradition of craft where artisans use materials such as wood, glass and stone to create everyday functional art.
- Realize that buildings, clothing, and products have been designed by artists and architects - and that all of them are viable careers in the arts.