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Anne Savage's
lack of formal training as a teacher challenged her to seek out
different pedagogical approaches. Her interest and energy in teaching
paralleled her passion for painting.
In 1937 she
began Saturday morning classes for children at the Art Association
of Montréal, now the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.
Teaching Saturday morning classes enabled Anne to reach an audience
of students who perhaps had little or no art instruction in school.
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Montréal
Museum of Fine Arts, E. and W.S. Maxwell, 1914
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Untitled
student work, c. 1920
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Anne's
own personal reasons for making and teaching art can be found
in an information sheet sent to parents in 1940 where she wrote:
"Our aim is to encourage and develop creative expression
in children and to cultivate an early contact with art…the
intensification of life, to perceive not merely to see, to give
children the love of all things that grow...and to find interest
and delight in just looking." - A.S.
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