Metrics in museums. Art and technology--the subtle way you are being watched and counted in the process. Is group sourcing best for choosing artwork in musuems?
This is an middle and highschool art and design curriculum developed by Oliva Gude and her students in Chicago afterschool programming. It is rich in ideas, content and connects with students interest and aligns with contemporary art issues and thinking.
Not only learning to wait, but wrestling with content creates a fertile learning space for all of us. Think about this content in relationship to the arts. How might slow learning, staving off immediate feedback support learning skills in the arts?
Quick reminder what we can do when we work with children in and through the arts. We can connect in ways others cannot as the arts have the ability to reveal personality and the unconscious, to make thinking visible, to reveal one person to another. We need to do this work tenderly, carefully, but considering the content of this teachers manifesto.
Teaching artistry is exactly what our field needs at this time to innovate effectively, deliver programs that expand audiences, and partner with non-arts organizations to produce breakthrough results.
The National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA), with Lifetime Arts, is developing teaching artists to work in that sector. The accomplishments of the NCCA are worth mentioning, especially the research of the late Dr. Gene Cohen.
In the past decade, TA work in schools (which is the largest share of TA work) has not grown and has even diminished; however, there has been a steady expansion of TA work in other areas: creative aging, justice systems, health care, business.
In the field of the arts, the preferred canon and the standard delivery of new and classic artworks do not comprise core values; indeed, they are exactly what must be reexamined and boldly experimented with.
Understanding the needs of our students with special needs is at the core of our practice. Meeting students were they are and finding ways to connect and grow their self confidence through creative problem solving and making is a key to learning. This source does not focus on the arts but the content suggests deep opportunities and links.
The Science Notebook is a place where arts integration and creative problem solving are core to the practice. Teaching drawing skills, color theory and creative problem solving set the stage for meaningful Science notebooks and student journals of all types.
The power of story through word and moving image is evidence hear through SOS where woman and girls are giving cameras to explore their worlds in photo, video and research of their own communities in Loas.