{"id":2340,"date":"2010-08-25T07:53:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T11:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2015-12-27T13:24:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T18:24:37","slug":"the-big-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2010\/08\/the-big-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post started with an old story that I had saved regarding <em>Coloring Outside the Curriculum<\/em> from the Washington Post and I thought it would be timely to post since my husband and I just made that long, arduous 22 hour, round-trip drive to <a title=\"Previous posts regarding Sewanee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?cat=185\" target=\"_blank\">Sewanee<\/a> again to drop our youngest son, Jackson, at school &#8212; this time college. I&#8217;ve got studying and the powers of observation on my mind and since he&#8217;s an artsy guy, creative learning outside the lines (in a safe way) is perfect for all ages. (Clicking on the Post link below will bring you to the story and the video worth viewing. It&#8217;s really great to see how the kids became fully engaged when drawing.)<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that this event mentioned in <a title=\"Coloring Outside the Curriculum - Washingtong Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/03\/05\/AR2008030503695.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Post<\/a> is not related to the one that is originally an international one, occurring month-long every October throughout London and Great Britain. This year is the 10th anniversary through the <a title=\"Campaign for Drawing Organization\" href=\"http:\/\/www.campaignfordrawing.org\/bigdraw\/\" target=\"_blank\">Campaign for Drawing Organization<\/a>. The Campaign took its inspiration from Victorian writer and artist, John Ruskin and pairs different academic fields, like science with drawing projects and venues. You can <a title=\"Organizing a Big Draw event\" href=\"http:\/\/www.campaignfordrawing.org\/bigdraw\/international.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">organize your own<\/a> event but it hasn&#8217;t really taken off in the States yet, except New York and perhaps one at one of the Smithsonian Museums in DC. This would be a great opportunity for some industrious person to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/The-Big-Draw.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2341 aligncenter\" title=\"The Big Draw\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/The-Big-Draw.png\" alt=\"The Big Draw on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"396\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/The-Big-Draw.png 396w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/The-Big-Draw-300x255.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In looking over these websites, I realized that organize must be spelled with a &#8220;s&#8221; in Britain. Something I didn&#8217;t know. Also, I offered this idea as a possible solution to one of DC&#8217;s blank walls in this post on\u00a0<a title=\"Commnent on Greater Greater Washington blog\" href=\"http:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post.cgi?id=6842\" target=\"_blank\"> Greater, Greater Washington<\/a>. Coincidentally, the Duke Street Pedestrian Concourse that is mentioned is a bit personal to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post started with an old story that I had saved regarding Coloring Outside the Curriculum from the Washington Post and I thought it would be timely to post since my husband and I just made that long, arduous 22 hour, round-trip drive to Sewanee again to drop our youngest son, Jackson, at school &#8212; this time college. I&#8217;ve got studying and the powers of observation on my mind and since he&#8217;s an artsy guy, creative learning outside the lines (in a safe way) is perfect for all ages. (Clicking on the Post link below will bring you to the story and the video worth viewing. It&#8217;s really great to see how the kids became fully engaged when drawing.) Turns out that this event mentioned in the Post is not related to the one that is originally an international one, occurring month-long every October throughout London and Great Britain. This year is the 10th anniversary through the Campaign for Drawing Organization. The Campaign took its inspiration from Victorian writer and artist, John Ruskin and pairs different academic fields, like science with drawing projects and venues. You can organize your own event but it hasn&#8217;t really taken off in the States yet, except New York and perhaps one at one of the Smithsonian Museums in DC. This would be a great opportunity for some industrious person to do. In looking over these websites, I realized that organize must be spelled with a &#8220;s&#8221; in Britain. Something I didn&#8217;t know. Also, I offered this idea as a possible solution to one of DC&#8217;s blank walls in this post on\u00a0 Greater, Greater Washington. Coincidentally, the Duke Street Pedestrian Concourse that is mentioned is a bit personal to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,515,90,15,169,185],"tags":[1548,1525],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations-and-all-including-sad-events","category-education","category-family","category-illustration","category-opportunities","category-sewanee","tag-creative-education","tag-drawing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Big Draw<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Big Draw on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2010\/08\/the-big-draw\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Big Draw\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Big Draw on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2010\/08\/the-big-draw\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArtIsEverywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-08-25T11:53:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-12-27T18:24:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/The-Big-Draw.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2010\\\/08\\\/the-big-draw\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2010\\\/08\\\/the-big-draw\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"casart\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"headline\":\"The Big Draw\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-08-25T11:53:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-12-27T18:24:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2010\\\/08\\\/the-big-draw\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":293,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2010\\\/08\\\/the-big-draw\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2010\\\/08\\\/The-Big-Draw.png\",\"keywords\":[\"creative education\",\"drawing\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Celebrations &amp; 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