Introduction

Hello dear reader and welcome to our place!

This blog will follow the progress of the young creative souls from  IB Visual Arts programme and Art club of PSHS American College Arcus. The college is a licensed institution of secondary education, teaching students from grades 8 through 12. Our school is located in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria and hosts about 170 students. 

Even if  the Arts are not a top priority subject in the National Curriculum, our school respects and motivates students who create and wish to expand their artistic skills. There are many students who apply to local and foreign Art Academies and Universities after graduating from our school and the tendencies are rising.Since 2015 PSHS American College Arcus has been offering the IBDP Visual Arts course, which is currently undertaken by three students.

OK, enough of facts.

This blog is intended to serve as a virtual portfolio of our students' artworks, but bellow the surface, I hope it will be a temple of imagination and creativity. I believe that imagination is the foundation of art itself, therefore it plays the most significant role in the creative process. It is the vivid source of ideas and inspiration; it is the natural and fundamental ability to apply your thoughts to life, it knows no boundaries, and is very important to social understanding. Without imagination art is only an instrument to copy already existing objects, it ceases to be a productive and personal process.

As a teacher, I encourage my students to rely on their imagination rather than on their drawing skills, as skills are taught, but imagination is an energy flow that can produce unbelievable things. 

Really, it is that simple.

artwork by Georgi Kolev and Pollina Nikova