Preschoolers paint mural bound for auction block
Jan. 21, 2012 — Painter Tim Yanke didn’t mind if his class of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds made a mess of the canvas stretched before them at the Oakland Livingston Human Services Agency.
In fact, he encouraged them.
The abstract artist smiled approvingly as he watched several dozen chattering, giggling children put their colorful marks on the swirling, paint-coated canvas with brushes, pencils and their own stubby fingers.
“We knock the creativity, the emotional drive out of children before they ever get to adulthood,” said Yanke. “These kids get it. Art is supposed to be emotional. Art isn’t something within boundaries or a border on a piece of paper. It’s something to be felt.”
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The activity, which eventually involved four groups of 17 children, was to express “winter,” Yanke said, but will eventually be broadened with other paints and colors to also reflect the seasons of spring, summer and fall on a 13-foot long piece of canvas.
When finished, the work will be auctioned off, likely at the Southfield-based Park West Gallery, which provided the art supplies, with all proceeds going to the human services agency…
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Fine art by Tim Yanke is available through Park West Gallery and its cruise art auctions at sea. Learn more at www.parkwestgallery-yanke.com.
For more information about the Park West Foundation and Park West Gallery’s other philanthropic programs, please visit www.parkwestgallery.com and click on Philanthropy.
