![]() “And then it just spread, like word spread. “I started creating a workbook, and just using that with the kids as I taught them over COVID,” she says. … I kind of just started teaching I had some little curriculum that I created,” she recalls, later expounding: “I was just creating these workbooks, because I couldn’t find any that I liked online they weren’t pretty, and I like everything to be beautiful.”Īs an artist and musician, Wade finds it important that the pages the kids use to learn are both inspiring and beautiful to them. ![]() “They were able to keep it small and controlled while the kids couldn’t be at school. They asked if she would teach the kids music. Shortly after Wade graduated from Vanguard University in Costa Mesa with a general music degree focused on voice and piano, she was approached by a handful of moms who had created small learning pods at their homes for their children to continue learning together during the pandemic. ![]() … I’ve been playing music my whole life and singing, and singing in, like, choir, singing in bands.” “Now, all my students play that guitar, so it’s very full circle,” she says. In about second grade, Wade began learning to play the piano, and when she was 7, she got her first guitar-which she displays in the classroom and allows her students to play. “Everyone in the school was in the play, and (in) the musical, everyone sang, like no matter what and so, my siblings, all of us, we can all sing, and we’re all musical,” she says of her musical upbringing, adding: “I think it was because we were just like, in that environment from a very young age.” “We also want to help them become the artists that they are and they just so freely show as children.”Ī San Clemente native, Wade attended Our Savior’s Lutheran School, which emphasized music. “With everything we do, we don’t want to just teach music,” she says. Wade explains that while she wants her students to learn how to play the notes of their instruments, such as piano and ukulele, it’s important to her that they begin to understand what genre and style of music and art vibe with them. “We really focus on … creativity, artistry, and how important that is for the children,” she says, adding: “It’s all about developing the artist, and that’s kind of what we do here.” At Lucy Creatives, a music and arts school in Downtown San Clemente, studio founder and teacher Meagan Wade looks to help steer her students’ musical journeys where they can learn who they are as an artist.
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