Sean Kramer
Part Time BFABA - Thomas Aquinas College, CA
Contact
seankramer@nhia.edu
www.sacredarticons.com
Teaching Philosophy
Just as health does not come from doctors, neither, I believe, do insight or skill come from teachers or schools. Health comes from within the body—a good doctor will assist and respectfully listen to the body’s own inner healing power; a bad doctor will try to replace it, imagining himself to be the principle cause of health. The doctor is an extrinsic, and often dispensable, tool that the person’s own healing abilities can make use of; but the active work of healing is always the person’s own. Similarly, the active power and light for deeper understanding are within the student, not the teacher. The teacher proposes images and words to the students, and proposes them in a certain order, and these are like tools that the students can work with. So I believe that learning should involve as much active participation from the students as possible. As a teacher I try to listen to the students and encourage the inner seeds of insight and ability that are within them. I hope to provide the students with some good and wise sign posts which they can make use of in the search for and traveling of their life’s path.
Exhibition History
Sacred Art: East and West: C.X. Silver Gallery, Brattleboro, VT - 2009-2010
Seacoast Artists: Discover Portsmouth Center - 2010
