Joy earned a lifetime teaching credential in
Elementary Education at William Jewell College in
Liberty Missouri.
Joy Kirchubel knows first hand the value of art in education. She has
many years of elementary teaching experience, plus Joy has been exclusively
teaching art in the public and private schools since 1982. In addition, In
1995 Joy began creating and producing the popular "Art with Joy" video
series
.
Along with teaching regular art classes, Joy has
guided three large murals created by her students,
supervised the children in painting their original
holiday designs on local business windows at Christmas
time, and directed special students whose work was
selected for the California Very Special Arts “Arts
Auction” in Beverly Hills.
Joy won awards for her own art when she was a child, has sold
her work in local galleries and has created designs which
have been featured on television and published by Renaissance
Greeting Card Company. Additionally Joy was voted best artist
in the local area in a recent hometown Newspaper readers'
poll.
“I believe art changes how children perceive things - how they
think, learn and accept themselves and others. Children want to
create and will do for art things they may have found difficult in
other areas, like concentrating on the present moment, following
instructions and sticking with a problem until they solve it. I’ve
often watched the children who exhibited the most problems in a
classroom complete the most wonderful art work.”
“Art
has to do with imagination, with going beyond the reality we can
see. It also has to do with really seeing - observing spatial
relationships, and recognizing different combinations of the
same few basic shapes. Drawing is starting somewhere and
progressing one step at a time. These are skills children need
in science, reading and math.”
“Art is a vital means
of communication in which children tell us things they don’t
tell us in other ways. Through art children tell us who they are
and what they are feeling.”
“I’ve designed these lessons to help kids have no sense of
failure, no sense of things being right or wrong. Each of us has
our own way of being, of expressing an idea. In art we are
learning and experiencing.”
“I have planned these lessons to give children joy and peace and
faith in themselves.”
