Picasso's and Klee's childhood artwork on display.

OMG people!! This is what it is all about… for me that is! Once you have read this article and watched Jonathan Fineberg's video, hopefully you will understand why I find children's art so absolutely fascinating!

In September of 2006, the prestigious Phillis Collection in Washington, D.C. is holding a wonderful exhibition of the artwork of famous and not famous children including Picasso, Klee and others called "When we were Young: New Perspectives on the Art of the Child".

Watch the narrated four-minute tour of the show to see commentary on some of the artwork being presented.

What I am so excited about is, the high level of recognition this event will give to the artwork of young children.

As you will hear in the video, the curator of the exhibition Jonathan Fineberg is an Art History Professor from the University of Illinois. His insightful words on the 'giftedness of children's art' rings true all the things I have felt about children's art at an instinctive level.

As Frank Greve from  McClatchy Newspapers writes in his article called "Artwork by kids, some later famous, rates a show of its own", "Art by kids gives more people more joy than any other kind. But it's like McDonald's fries: so eagerly consumed and abundant that almost no one appreciates it articulately. "

I can't agree more with Greve. One of the saddest things I see with people regarding children's art, is their lack of lasting appreciation of the work while it is abundant.

It seems that most people only truly appreciate a child's artwork as real art, when they are no longer a child. When there isn't any of it left. Wouldn't you love to have some of your own childhood art? How about your Grandmother's?

Think about this… If you are a parent of a young child right now, what happens to their art?

Do you gaze at it fondly and hang it on the fridge for awhile, only to replace it with something else you think is better later on?

Then what? Do you put it in a box or do you eventually throw it out?

Just think how precious those few pieces of art saved from Picasso's and Klee's childhood have now become… Priceless.

How do you look at your kids art now?