kindergarten

kindergarten at ricco Maresca Gallery until October 20 2012. The exhibition links to the work of 19th c. educator Fredrich Froebel who invented kindergarten as a program of education focusing on creativity, child development and spiritual geometry and harmony found in nature.

Above:

Beauty Forms Made With the 7th  and 14th Gift (Paquetry and Paper Weaving)
Unknown Makers
c. 1800-1900
cut paper and pencil 14 x 10.5 inches and 11 x 15 inches

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Our first teachers are our feet, our hands and our eyes. - Jean Jacques Rousseau

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