“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, art is knowing which ones to keep” ~Scott Adams

Photograph by Monique Colizzi, November 2020, Houghton Lake, MI

Photograph by Monique Colizzi, November 2020, Houghton Lake, MI

My interest in natural art education is one that combines both of my loves: art making and agriculture. I never thought to combine the two, as they were both separate entities within my journey through life. Combining the two has shown its benefit in revealing the passion I have for both, as well as extending student learning and understanding of big ideas and building connections to appease students' innate curiosities of the natural world. “Nature, it cannot fail. Its guarantee is the laws of the universe” (Drummond, 1887, p.79), laws that include the act of love, it lasts and never fails (Drummond, 1887). What one manifests, one will receive to fruition, if love is at its core, it will manifest into a wave of transformation to a world of possibilities, truth and fortitude.