Not allowed in school art-show!

Have you ever sent your art in to your schools art-show and had it rejected because the teacher simply didn't like it?

I spent hours drawing my anime poster for my high-schools art show (It took two 6B pencils to fill in the background). The teacher gave it back to me saying: "I'm not going to allow this non-american cartoon crap into my show"

yeah... I was pissed!

So Tell us about your experience!

and if you still have your picture, show it here so

it can get it's time in the spotlight like

it should have had!

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Kisara Ritsuka Kaur on December 12, 2010 at 11:04am

Agh! That's downright terrible what the school said! "Non-American cartoon crap"? Do these people have any perception of art whatsoever? There's so many things wrong with what that teacher said that I don't even KNOW where to begin, but in short, they're stupid, and I for one think your drawing kicks ass.

Permalink Reply by Rafe on December 12, 2010 at 3:01pm

@ Kisara Ritsuka Kaur: thanks!

funny story about that teacher though... the next year he got arrested for allegedly molesting some boys in his photography class.... what a douche!

Permalink Reply by Kisara Ritsuka Kaur on December 12, 2010 at 5:46pm

Wow o_o

Then again it seems like in every school there's at least one teacher who...probably shouldn't be around kids.

Every school I've been too there's one/a few that have some ugly pedo-charge rumor floating around them. *shudders*

Permalink Reply by Gabriella Guerra on January 31, 2011 at 6:34pm

Ikr? I mean, if you hate kids, don't be a teacher. It's that simple. And if you love them, well... you should be in jail.

Permalink Reply by Zach Lang on December 17, 2010 at 3:41pm

In seventh grade I submitted a sketch for a year book cover contest in my school but my drawing was rejected because it was "too detailed." The jury was the year book class.

Permalink Reply by Rafe on December 17, 2010 at 11:54pm

lol! that's messed up!

Permalink Reply by Gabriella Guerra on January 31, 2011 at 6:32pm

Man, that's really lame! I thought culture was a good thing. The only instance I can think of where rejecting anime (not to that extent, of course) would make any sense would be if it was an 'All American Art Show', but seriously, who does that? And even if that were to happen, America is a country made of immigrants. Our culture is a compilation of everyone elses, including Japan. There is nothing we can really say we had as part of our culture first. Your teacher is really lame. That drawing is simply AMAZING and that talent show won't be as kick ass without it.

Permalink Reply by Captain Jacqui Sparrow on February 11, 2011 at 3:12pm

I hate it when people refuse to consider anime/cartoons as art. Some cartoons/animations I've seen are incredible. My school is pretty pro-anime in their art program, but my art teacher is some wacko stoner lady and the other one is an "everything in the world is art!!!" kind of person, so they'll pretty much put anything up for our art show, which is nice simply because you get a hell of a lot of variety. Anime isn't really my cup of tea to draw, but I can definitely appreciate some well-drawn anime, and your drawing looks pretty nice.

Permalink Reply by Julia on February 18, 2011 at 1:09pm

That's the dimmest thing I've ever heard. Do you know how limited art would be if we could only use movements and styles started or popularized exclusively in America?