Loaded Brush

Cellina has been formally teaching for more than ten years, both in Australia and overseas. She has a Certificate IV in Training and Education as well as a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education. Prior to forming Loaded Brush, she was most recently involved in establishing the Middle School at Reggio Emilia inspired, Bold Park Community School.

Sharing the Reggio Emilia philosophy of education, Cellina believes in creativity as an essential quality of learning. Loaded Brush experiences are designed to inspire and provoke creativity in a safe and authentic environment. Collaboration is another critical element of learning and Loaded Brush encourages a friendly, social atmosphere.

Cellina enjoys challenging the barriers to creativity. Her work with teenagers has refined her skills and sensitivity to the often self-imposed obstacles we implement from an early age. She is also inspired by teenage bravado and seeks to share the joy of risk-taking with people of all ages. Finally, she is ever faithful to creativity as “the essential dimension” of living and learning.

“We are too often taught to separate that which is connected, to divide rather than bring together the disciplines, to eliminate all that which can lead to disorder. For this reason, it is absolutely indispensable to reconsider our relationship with art as an essential dimension of human thinking. The art of daily life and the creativity of daily life should be the right of all. Art, then, as a part of our lives of our efforts to learn and know.”

Carlina Rinaldi (2006) In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia