Welcome to Virtual SMARTS
Hey SMARTS students—we are excited to see you again! Everything feels a little upside down and out of this world right now doesn’t it? We feel disappointed that you didn’t get to finish your classes and share your final work. We have been working hard so you can continue your creative journey. Are you ready to travel to outer space with us?
Ok, not really outer space but Virtual SMARTS is a safe place where you can continue to learn in the arts and stay connected with your SMARTS family and friends. Students that were enrolled in SMARTS Spring 2020 classes can continue their assignments, share their artwork, and connect to each other virtually. You don’t have to do this alone…if you have a sibling nearby or even an adult—many of the assignments have options for you to share and do things with others. First find a class that you have been attending and follow the lesson. You will be able to share your creations by uploading images and videos to share with us and others.
We know that you’ve been learning and creating with the goal of demonstrating your new arts knowledge at the Art You Can Hear and See events and we are disappointed that we can’t do this all together @ SMARTS with a big cake, our infamous lemonade punch, and the world’s largest bowl of candy. So for now, Virtual SMARTS is going to help us to reconnect, continue to learn, and then share with each other and our community.
We hope that we can see you face to face @ SMARTS in the Ohio One Building soon. But until then—we are going to make lemonade out of lemons by using our creativity to stay connected to you and guide your arts learning. We will keep you up to date on new ideas and things to do and we hope that you connect back to us by sharing your artwork and giving us your best ideas about how to do this better. We know you are full of new ideas! If you haven’t taken a SMARTS class before, see if you can ‘jump in’ on these lessons and let us know how you are doing.
Keep an eye on us, as we are working on a Virtual SMARTS Weekly Art Challenge, where you'll find a project idea in each arts discipline to engage in as a family and lots of other fun things. We hope you'll take some time each week for yourself to be creative, reflect, heal, and connect with SMARTS, Your community art school!
Have hope, be strong, stay healthy and MAKE ART!
—Your SMARTS Family
Ok, not really outer space but Virtual SMARTS is a safe place where you can continue to learn in the arts and stay connected with your SMARTS family and friends. Students that were enrolled in SMARTS Spring 2020 classes can continue their assignments, share their artwork, and connect to each other virtually. You don’t have to do this alone…if you have a sibling nearby or even an adult—many of the assignments have options for you to share and do things with others. First find a class that you have been attending and follow the lesson. You will be able to share your creations by uploading images and videos to share with us and others.
We know that you’ve been learning and creating with the goal of demonstrating your new arts knowledge at the Art You Can Hear and See events and we are disappointed that we can’t do this all together @ SMARTS with a big cake, our infamous lemonade punch, and the world’s largest bowl of candy. So for now, Virtual SMARTS is going to help us to reconnect, continue to learn, and then share with each other and our community.
We hope that we can see you face to face @ SMARTS in the Ohio One Building soon. But until then—we are going to make lemonade out of lemons by using our creativity to stay connected to you and guide your arts learning. We will keep you up to date on new ideas and things to do and we hope that you connect back to us by sharing your artwork and giving us your best ideas about how to do this better. We know you are full of new ideas! If you haven’t taken a SMARTS class before, see if you can ‘jump in’ on these lessons and let us know how you are doing.
Keep an eye on us, as we are working on a Virtual SMARTS Weekly Art Challenge, where you'll find a project idea in each arts discipline to engage in as a family and lots of other fun things. We hope you'll take some time each week for yourself to be creative, reflect, heal, and connect with SMARTS, Your community art school!
Have hope, be strong, stay healthy and MAKE ART!
—Your SMARTS Family
Artwork created by SMARTS teacher, artist and animator, Robert W. Kerr
"This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal."
-Toni Morrison
SMARTS, Students Motivated by the Arts 25 East Boardman Street, First Floor, Youngstown, Ohio 44503 330-574-2787
