Portraits of Visual Artist/teachers: Spirituality in Art Education

Abstract

The portraits revealed three significant conclusions: (1) there were common elements in the participants' artistic development due to a growing awareness that led to a unity, which confirmed assumptions posed by the methodology; (2) there was a connection between aesthetic and spiritual experiences within each participant revealed in his or her mode of working; and, (3) the artist/teachers manifested their spirituality in teaching art in their own distinct ways, such as through extraordinary caring for their students, expressing their mission of good will to their students, teaching about spirituality through art to a group of like believers, and creating opportunities for students to consider questions about their own spirituality.