Fort Wayne Art School - Art Lights Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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., 5 K, ,WET Q , iq,- ! Mr and Mrs Bolander were assoclate directors of the Snow Froelxch School of Industnal Art rn New York Cnty Between Mlss Snow and Mr and Mrs Bolander there exxsted a very strong bond of frxendshlp Miss Snows phllosophy of Art llves m the teachmgs of the Bolanders A number of Fort Wayne Art School students have studled at the Snow Froehch School There they learned to know Mxss Snow as a person who mspnred others rn the reachmg of art Through her lecture m the Lxttle Art Theatre here last tact wlth each and every student m the Port Wayne Art School October, Miss Bonnie E. Snow established a personal 'con- l -- . - ' gy - .

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he en n n n n n m ' 1 EVENING SCHOGL The evening classes of the Fort Wayne Art School have grown in size and skill since the institution started three years ago. This evening school now holds an enviable position among the evening art schools of the country. The enrollment of the classes is variable owing to the fact that the students are principally working people and as positions change students come and go. Many of the evening students enroll in the day school and graduate, so enthused do they become about the work. One of the best things about the school is the good will and spirit of both the evening and day students in helping each other to gain the most benefit possible from their instruc- IDIS. X , , sz T1

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A . . . 1 IN MEMORIAM BONNIE fE. SNOW On January tenth, of this year, Miss Bonnie E. Snow, editor of Everyday Art and founder of the Snow- Froelich Schools of Industrial Arts of Chicago and New York, passed away in New York. Twenty-five years ago Miss Snow turned away from the theory upon which public school instruction was then based. She felt the inadequancy of Art for Art's sake as then taught in the schools and Art for Life's Sake was her bold challenge to the old order. The standard which she raised and around which she gathered a host of loyal sup- porters has never been lowered. Many years ago she wrote: I believe that the results from the teaching of Art should be definite and tangibleg that the cultivated emotions and the trained intellect should find expression in those inevitable forms, proportions and colors which tend to make our material environment more beautiful. I be- lieve that beauty is coming back to the useful arts and that the distinction beween fine Arts and useful Arts is to be forgotten. That in her life time came justification for this belief was her great happinessand reward. The leader is gone but the divine quality of her leadership persists. The tire- less labor and unsellish devotion that she gave to her chosen work are not perishable things. From the strength and inspiration that others found in her from the new zeal and higher purpose that she helped them bring to their daily tasks has grown an influence that will never cease to be felt in the schools of our country and in the lives of our people. -Pliveryday Art, February, l925. !