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My Role Model: The Creative Art Teacher

11/7/2014

 
My role model for school and art is Mr. Alan Bell.  Alan Bell is a retired art teacher from Washington, Missouri.  Mr. Bell was born on October 19,1941, in Hunterland, New York. He was a very active kid in high school, playing soccer and hunting, along with loving to fish.  His number one thing to do as a kid was play soccer.  He loved soccer so much that he played it in college, and after college, he became a soccer coach for little kids.
Alan Bell has gone to three different colleges for the same major, which was the studying of advertising, art, and education. The State University of Farmingdale, in New York City, was the first college he attended. Mr. Bell said, “This is nice college if you want a big city and a lot of kids.” New Plotze State University of Colorado was the second college he attended. Mr. Bell said, “ Its a nice college if you want to be far away from home and if you like the mountains and cold temperature.” The third college he went to  was the University of Kansas.  He went there to get his masters degree for teaching art and education.

Mr. Bell  had many jobs as he was growing up and after he retired as a teacher. He was an art teacher in Rochester, New York, right after attending his first college. After he left that teaching job, he just went to school to have more experience and tried to be the best he could be. After he got his masters degree at Kansas, he became an instructor of art education at Kansas State University. He was also a teacher at Highland Training School. Then he was an instructor of art and education at the University of Bridgeport. After that, he went across the ocean, all the way to Japan, to the Canadian Academy of art and poetry. Then he went back to the United States and taught at Washington High School for 28 years.

Today, Mr.Bell is living a good life here in New Haven. He likes New Haven a lot better than some places, like St. Louis. Mr. Bell stated, “It’s a nice, friendly, comfortable town that is a perfect small town, that I love.” Mr. Bell is 73 years old, has a happy wife, an amazing daughter, and a 3-legged dog name Molly, who is an elkhound. He owns an art shop in downtown New Haven where you could go buy, sell, or even make your own art.

He even taught me how to make objects out of clay when I was a little kid.  He is my role model because he is a  good and helpful person and creative, and if I have any art questions, I ask him.

He has been my role model since I wanted to know what art is and what is part of art.  If you want to know art like I did when I was a kid, go ask Alan Bell in downtown New Haven. He will gladly help you.      


-by Kyle Luecke


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