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oooventkMi in dbc Valley in 1975
wben she met die man who would
be her husband. Deo Young
leeching art in the Valley and
Dm learnad that in commer-
cial art, not all was creative, but
ha accomplished company goak
and was senior advertising artist
lor HEB when the company
moved to San Antonio.
The family did did not want to
move with the company. They
had found Indlaalde, where Dan’s
Thmedey, Msy 10, IWO
ITS ART- - -
AT THE HEART OF YOUNG THINGS
Creative thinking skills de-
veloped in art can be tranl’erred to
any kind of business Lana Young,
art teacher in junior and senior
h'gh schools at Ingleside. sees
advantages to her students in
more than one way, with art con-
tributing to both their success in
life and to their enjoyment of it
She explains that creative
thinking is a process that can be
used under all circumstances.
One of the big things business
looks for today is problem sol-
vers.
To solve problems requires the
ability to look at not just the ob-
vious but to see the same thing
from many different perspec-
tives The best solution may be
something surprising
Young gives an example. Em-
ployees in a business were dis-
gruntled because they had to wait
for an elevator to take them up
and down, and their work re-
quired them to go from one floor
to another frequently.
A problem solving team was
appointed Team members
watched people waiting impa-
tiently for the elevator They
came up with this solution. They
put mirrors in the hallway. The
waiting employee watched
selves in the mirrors,
seemed a short time before the
elevator came.
Young said that whether you
are drawing, painting, sculpting,
you run into problems. “How do I
get across this idea? How do I
express what I am seeing, what I
feel about it?” You may have to
try several times, failing one time
after another.
“You have to make mistakes,”
she adds, “before you get it right,
but you keep looking ahead.
Learning to look at problems as
opportunities to be creative is a
lifetime skill I want my students
to develop.
Art has multiple applications in
any life, as Young sees it. You mix
'Colon when you dress yourself
and in your home. Consciously or
subconsciously, design concepts
and color influence your deci-
sions on what you buy, whether
it’s a car, food, furniture, even
what job you choose or the person
you choose to marry.
Young has taught art for 16
yean. She was born in Lubbock
and grew up in Plainview in West
Dan intended to enroll and com-
plete work on his masters, but
their first child was expected so
he went to work at a book bin-
dery
Lana taught at Lackland Air
Force Base, and Nathan was born
in San Antonio. Dan began selling
art work there. Dan had been
born in Harlingen, the son of a
jeweler. He was brought up on the
story of his grandfather who re-
ceived a bachelor of fine arts in
1909 and had artistic ability.
sister, Marfena Dering, was living
The beauty of this place, with
both trees and water, had capti-
vated them, and they had bought
wooded acreage
Dan had climbed a tree to look
over the property. This was
where they would build their
home.
Lana came to Ingleside Inde-
pendent School District six years
ago. She teaches two art classes in
Ingleside High School and four in
Leon Tavlor Junior High School.
MILLIONS OF DOTS blend into a stippled painting that is the
background for the family group, Lana and Dan Young and their
two children, Nathan and Tarah.
As a child, Dan drew and work-
ed in clay. When he was asked at
six years old what he wanted to
be, he said a horse. But later, he
had two ambitions, to play base-
ball and to be an artist. He played
baseball at Blinn Junior College in
Brenham until an injury ended
baseball days and he turned full
attention to art. He had com-
pleted his academic work when
he transferred to the University of
Texas at Austin and took 60 hours
of art classes. His concentration
was now' pottery and ceramic
sculpture.
His teacher, Ishma Soto, inter-
nationally known, took Dan to
qam YOUNG'S CAREER, inducted odwrtiiino and commerciol
art, aoalfoe art and toothing, gives students an ideo of the many
way* art can provide a living as wall as a way of Ms.
was in college before
much she liked
ea-
st a
the Kerrville juried arts and crafts
show. Lady Bird Johnson came to
the show, asked where Soto’s
booth was, and went straight
there, buying a large number of
his works and leaving.
Dan’s opportunity to make his
living as a commercial artist came
when he applied to HEB and was
hired. The family moved to Cor-
Lana taught in Cor*
schools and their
was born there.
Dan now' teaches commercial/
vocational art for the Corpus
Christi Independent School Dis-
trict.
Their careers are proof to stu-
dents seriously interested in art
that art can be a way to make a
living as well as a way of life. Dan
says there are many skills that
can be developed that can lead to
a successful career in commer-
cial art. There is a place for all
talents. If you have excellent
ideas, but cannot reproduce
them, they can be carried out by
others who don’t generate the
ideas but can communicate them
graphically.
He said students have to be
realistic and understand that to
support yourself as a creative
artist, you have to be both ex-
tremely good and fortunate
enough to get the right opportuni-
ties.
Lana sees a lot of talent in Ing-
leside students. There are some
exceptionally gifted students in
her classes. One of these is Matt
Farley.
Farley, she says, has the poten-
tial to be an artist who can sup-
port himself with his art work,
with abilities in drawing, render-
ing, shading. He has won a region-
al scholarship His work was
selected in San Antonio to be
shown in New York in national
competition with works of tenth
to twelfth grade students from
over the United States, and is still
IN LEON TAYLOR JUNIOR HIGH, each art student sees the shape
of things in his own way and has to try various means of expressing
what he sees. Left to right are Ruben Bryan, Chris Harrison, Saul
Perez, and Jason Rangle.
being shown there.
Lana said there is no art prog-
ram in elementary school in Ing-
leside, but all teachers impart
basic art to their students, until
they reach the junior high level
and have an art teacher.
Only a few children are going to
be artists, she explained. “But the
others who study art will not miss
out on something important as so
many people do. They will be
aware of the beauty in the world
and enjoy exploring creative pos-
sibilities.”
“In first year art, students gain
an understanding of the elements
and principles of design,” Young
said. “Drawing, of course, is the
basis of all art work so they draw
many things. They learn to see
how things are related, to see
their shapes, to gain prespective.
They become aware of shading,
the values of lightness and dark-
ness. They begin to work with a
color wheel and learn how colors
are made.
“Linoleum block printing gives
them the opportunity to carve out
their own designs and print their
plates. The project that is most
popular with my students is clay
sculpture and pottery. They get a
chance to use the potter’s wheel,
to get into sculpture and to learn
glazing.
Paper mache sculpture moves
them into pop art. Everyday ob-
jects are blown up, exaggerated,
given a shock value that says, “ Ev-
erything on a certain scale can be
sculpture”.
Lana estimates that 99 percent
of the students really enjoy what
they are doing in art class. This in
itself can be important. For stu-
dents not inclined to enjoy
school, it can bring their first
awareness that learning can be
fun.
The biggest sculpture of all to
Young is the work of art that she
and her husband, Dan, have
underway. It is their home that
they are building, set back in the
trees off Mooney Lane.
A two-story house with a tin-
roof, it has the appearance of a hill
country rock house. Inside, it is
modern southwest, ash wood,
Saltillo tile. They took a design
they liked and rearranged it.
For three years, everything
PAINTING RECREATES IN LANA YOUNG the excitement she
passes on to her students enabling them to see what is around them
in a new way.
else has been pushed back to liveoaks in the yard surrounding
clear Lana and Dan’s free time for the house,
work on the house. It has taken
shape. Rooms are spacious and ^ Feafure Pagej KJcVc.(|
open, with bay windows giving ~
panoramic views of designs of
People
Of The
By Juliet K. Wenger
Feature Editor
Bay Area
SHAWN EOUN DIDN'T HESITATE whenaskedwhoeefocehe was
sculpting on top of a container. Ha sold, mischievously, "My
room”
BUNDING THEM HOME has taken throe years of the Young's
Hues. When It is completed, they will return to the potter's wheel.
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