Getting to Know Mrs. Brown

Batina Jombuni, Staffer

Mrs. Brown teaches art with a passion. Drawing is a way for Mrs.Brown to release her feelings that bottle up. It helps her express herself in a meaningful way. Everyone has different perspectives in art, but everyone sees a particular meaning behind it.

“Art is a way to talk about things, because it’s hard verbalizing them,” Brown said. Many people are scared to talk about their feelings and art is a easier way to express them. Mrs.Brown feels lucky to find this way of releasing feelings.

An artwork that expresses Brown is The Moth. There was no reason to have a deep meaning but the things that she drew were symbolized of growing, patience, healing, and change. When Brown was drawing the Moth last year she had no intentions for it to mean so much, but as it progressed the meaning started to relate to her real life problems

“I was going through tough shit you know,” Brown said. She was going through a lot at that time, and it all came together in one piece. By the end of the painting she realized this painting helped her overcome her problems and struggles in her real life that she could not explain. It was a way for her to release everything bottled up.
“I believe the Universe talks to me, through my art. I know that makes me sound like a crazy person but that is just how I feel“, Brown said. Every art piece Brown has done has had a meaning behind it, because art just isn’t about drawing. Art is a way of releasing problems or happiness. Mrs.Brown finds meaning behind her students artwork, and only the few selected are displayed in the halls.