Art by Fuzzy

Pottery, Photography, Design - Brandon "Fuzzy" Schwartz

Life is Change: New Job

For the first time in 11 years I will not be driving to Ligonier to start a new school year in August. This makes me sad. I have been at Ligonier Elementary/West Noble Primary for 10 years plus a year at West Noble Elementary in the middle of that decade. The people there are amazing and it is a great place to work. I made a lot of friends and I’ll miss being part of that team.

Now I will be working at Jefferson Elementary, part of the Middlebury Community Schools. This makes me happy. Mostly happy to have a good job. My wife worked at Jefferson for a number of years until she decided to stay home with our kids. There are a lot of great people there as well.

jefferson elementary

jefferson elementary via google maps

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Clay Class with Mr. Schwartz

West Noble Primary is slowly becoming a community of clay artists.

Okay, maybe not, but we have finished our first Clay Camp! I came up with the idea a few months ago to offer an introductory clay class for interested staff members. There was plenty of interest so I started to put together a schedule, type out a “curriculum” and gather materials.

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Change for Boston

One of my co-workers at West Noble Primary ran the Boston Marathon this year. She had already finished the race and was out of the way when the explosions happened. But she and another teacher wanted to raise some funds to help some of the runners and onlookers that weren’t so fortunate.

They asked if I would help them make a T-shirt design and so I did. Below are two of the final designs and the actual shirt. I can’ t take credit for the idea but I helped them get their idea onto paper using Illustrator. I even used the perspective grid more than I ever have before.

 

Kids could bring in coins to donate and they all walked together today during recess. Quite a few staff members bought shirts and wore them today. I’m glad I could be a part of it.

Here’s a rough draft that I liked. Probably because it reminds me of FRINGE!

boston rough draft