In York’s catalogue, Xiao Mo has written that students “need to have enough effective time and energy to draw broader and more classical…elements of civilization. They need to have freedom, independence and automatic progress.” Sima shows us structures made out of plastic bendy straws. She tries to remember the ages of the people who made them, somewhere between eight and eleven. It seems as though she wants to get their ages right in order to highlight what’s possible when students are left to create freely.
In addition to providing space in its studios, the school also arranges many trips, both nationally and abroad, to see and make art and to meet other artists. “An artist must see things,” York says. Images from Egypt and Greece show up in some of the work on the walls and in the catalogues, for example.
As the students interact with other cultures, and as expats join the community in Dalian, creativity becomes more and more important in our efforts to understand each other. “Art is so close to our lives. It’s just like language,” York says. MyArt provides just the right atmosphere for fostering the excitement that artists need in order to imagine new ways of interaction.
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