CreArt Canada

Art Teacher: Katherine Wu

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What matters is the experience for children to participate in the competition: Katherine Wu, the advisor of Art Wroks Studio in Vancouver spoke bluntly that this was her first time to take her students to participate in this kind of event, which was a good opportunity to practice. “It’s different from the regular exercises in class,” she said, “Through competition, children experienced the whole process of paint making from the beginning of creating, revising and exchanging ideas according the topic to the completion of the works. This experience was very precious.” She was also quite satisfied with the performance of her students.

Art Teacher: Li Feng

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Winning Awards is not the goal of Competition: Feng Li, the teacher in the New Three Primary Colors School of Art, said that students were very active in this event and got good performances, for which she was very pleased. But for her, the greatest achievement was seeing the efforts of her students in the whole process and that they made great progress in the two month’s preparations. She emphasized that the goal was not to win awards, but to practice themselves, keep learning, overcome weakness by learning others’ merits in this kind of great artistic events.  

Art Teacher: Claire Zhou

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Competition stimulates children’s imagination: Claire Zhou, who owned her own studio, also encouraged every child to keep on creating. She said, compared with competitions she took part in over the past years, the entries in this competition showed higher levels whether on modeling or composition, etc., which was very competitive. She gave recognition to the degree of profession of this platform. She added, “In the process of instructing the children, we see that they apply the knowledge and techniques they’ve learned in everyday life to the making of works. This is the most touching and gratifying result. We also see the infinite imagination of the children. It’s a precious experience.”