A schoolteacher in Indiana is spending this summer traveling on Route 66, taking art classes and following her muse, thanks to a grant, reports the The Post & Mail in Colombia City, Ind.
Sarah Corey, who teaches at Indian Springs Middle School, received $8,000 from the Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Fellowship.
Throughout the trip she’ll be stopping at workshops along the way and focusing on plein (open) air painting, murals, photography, ceramics and glass art. […]
Taking in the various cultures, especially those of Native Americans, along the way will be one of the main focuses of the trip.
Corey’s grandfather, who recently passed away, was an avid learner of Native American cultures and Corey is looking forward to getting to know those same things her grandfather found fascinating.
The journey will start in Chicago with two days and nights of a glass works class, and from there it will be on to St. Louis for a stop at the city’s art museum before getting back onto Route 66 and heading to Tulsa, Okla. for an overnight stay and another stop at a museum.
Once she gets farther west the fun really starts, with the chance to paint the beautiful desert scenery and cliff sides while out in the environment with them, although Corey isn’t sure yet if she’ll be able to use her favorite oil-based paints in the desert heat. She’s got an assortment of water-based paints as a back-up just in case.
She plans to spend two or three days in Albuquerque, NM and reservations in that area before heading to the Grand Canyon and her the last two destinations of San Diego and Mission Viejo.
It should be a good trip. Route 66 brims with rich material for artists.
And I suspect that once she crosses the border into New Mexico and sees those amazing skies, she’ll never want to leave.