Enhance your CC Experience with Art!
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(excludes sketchbooks)
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Did you know that art is a way to know God and make him known? Since our God is a creator God, we're created in his image to be creators, too, and when we create, it can be a way to commune with God. Our completed work can be an invitation to others to commune with God.
After being a part of Classical Conversations for 16 years and graduating 3 kids out of Challenge IV, I've developed a classical, Christian approach to art education that enhances your CC experience. (You might recognize my name from "Marvelous to Behold", Leigh's books, and CC articles, but I also wrote and illustrated the PreScripts Cursive Writing and Drawing Series and the Essentials Trivium Tables.)
In Delightful art classes, students delve deeper into an academic subject as they create their own, unique illustrated book about that subject. An enthusiastic artist will help students see the beauty in that subject, demonstrate art skills, give inspiring project ideas, and point students to the creator of beauty, our Heavenly Father.
Paint Your Way Through Art History, was created to expand on the art studied in Challenge II and help explain Francis Schaeffer's ideas on Christianity and culture. I now offer a full art curriculum for second grade to adults including art books, self-paced classes, and art retreats. Use our classes to match with CC or to fill a gap.
Getting to the point where we're communing with God and creating work that draws others to God takes some skills-- skills built through practice. Join one of the classes to start that practice, build skills, and work towards making a creative practice that enables you to know God and make Him known. We're here to support you in that process!
Plus, there isn't a fine arts credit in CC, so you'll want to add at least one during their high school years, so why not add one that enhances what they're doing in CC?
-Courtney Sanford
Classical Educator, Artist, Author
Explore the CC-Delightful Match-Ups:
How are Delightful classes classical?
1. We integrate subjects.
2. We follow the classical learning progression from grammar to dialectic to rhetoricalwhich means we practice skills (grammar) combine and experiment with skills and materials (rhetoric) before asking students to create original compositions (rhetoric). We don't restrict these stages to age groups - any age learner will go through these stages and become rhetorical when they are ready.
3. We start with blank books and fill them like Leonardo da Vinci and Nathaniel Bowditch.
Learn more in these videos with founder, Courtney Sanford:
Art Retreats
A challenge student retreat can enrich your whole community experience by building relationships with students and sharing an enriching and fun art experience. If you have a group of 7 or more students (ages 12+), I can plan a fantastic private art retreat for your group! If you host a retreat, you get free tuition for your student. (One free student for every 6 students you bring.) Retreats can be one to three-day events. I'll plan art lessons just for your group. Unlike a paint party, I teach the process and let students explore their own creativity, so everyone's art is unique! I can bring tables, chairs, drop cloths, projector and screen, and all the art supplies; you find the students, house (if 2+ days), and a few moms to provide meals. Contact courtney@delightfulartco.com to start planning your retreat!