After a brief stint at the NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, I changed my career to concentrate on a degree in finance; however, art remained a source of great inspiration and motivation. As a mother of three children, I sought ways to explore and to awaken their natural creative abilities, and our in-home art classes with friends and family became much anticipated events. Through the work with my own and other children, I realized that creativity is an intrinsic ability possessed by every child and inability to express oneself creatively does not point to a lack of talent but to a lack of very real technical skills. Just like any skill, drawing can be taught to anyone at any age and, again, as a skill it can be honed and perfected. I enjoy working with children because children are naturally talented and capable and I enjoy watching them fill with pride when they accomplish tasks that they previously thought they could not do. Learning new skills and becoming good at something helps children become more confident with other tasks in school and elsewhere. Additionally, I believe in importance of creativity as an emotional outlet for a child. Creating can become a place of free expression where there are no boundaries, no perfectionism, and no rules – only freedom and imagination.