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Holding ideas lightly, the iterative process and design thinking as an artist, leader and teacher.

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?

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.

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.