tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342911384518459004.post4580161025557528050..comments2023-10-25T03:38:09.523-04:00Comments on Unedit my heart: What I learned from the New OAC Arts Engagement StudyLeah Sandalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586221448338828889noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342911384518459004.post-34394693927421944912011-10-17T11:41:58.257-04:002011-10-17T11:41:58.257-04:00Hi Pixo,
Wow, thanks for that roundup! I hadn'...Hi Pixo,<br /><br />Wow, thanks for that roundup! I hadn't thought of the art supply stores before. That's especially a place where early education teachers often go as well, eh? <br /><br />I also find your anecdote about the teacher being told to do a project, but being provided with few guidelines from the school board, intriguing. It must be frustrating for teachers to be told they have to integrate art education into their classes, but feel like they don't have the knowledge or instructional resources provided to to so. (I've heard that before from a high school teacher -- that she really wants to teach about art, but finds few resources that are helpful in assisting her in that.)<br /><br />As for the pumpkin carving, well - comes down to the classic philosophical debates in art, I guess. Can copying a standard cultural form be art? Is that perhaps more believable as a thesis when someone with an MFA does it as opposed to an elementary school student? Or when it happens in a white-cube gallery as opposed to a linoleum-floor classroom? This reminds me of what I read some time ago in a piano teaching book. The author was contending that children aren't being trained to make beauty when they take piano lessons - they are making beauty, period. Whether that's at a high/professional level or not is where the distinction lies, I think. <br /><br />More seriously, carving a pumpkin could be a kind of sculpture, I think. Especially if you cast it in bronze afterwards! That would seal the deal! : )Leah Sandalshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13586221448338828889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342911384518459004.post-25579841242897565452011-10-16T16:01:11.061-04:002011-10-16T16:01:11.061-04:00Here are my thoughts on promoting art making:
The...Here are my thoughts on promoting art making:<br /><br />The most frequently and widely distributed materials related to art making are flyers from art supplies stores. If art institutions have genuine interest in promoting art making by general public, they should consider partnering with art supplies stores which share the same interest but obviously for a different purpose.<br /><br />My sister taught grade 2. One of her recent project with her class is to make an Impressionist painting after Monet. Note, although the school board set guideline, the school system provides little on the "what" and the "how". She did her own research and come across this project. BTW, she is buying a pumpkin today, and will be carving it with her class next week. Will this be considered art making?<br /><br />Online competition is a great way to promote interest in art making. Saatchi Online (http://www.saatchionline.com/) has a "Drawing Showdown" happening right now. It attracted participants from all levels. Saatchi Gallery has done an exceptional job with its online initiatives. <br /><br />"Illustration Friday" (www.illustrationfriday.com), although not a competition, is another online model for promoting art making.<br /><br />Last but not least, something that I find truly inspiring, and can only have happened because of the wide reach of the Internet. A US artist / art teacher has a blog called "A splotch monster a day". His personal art making effort has inspired others, including a boy from Russia - http://asplotchmonsteraday.blogspot.com/2011/10/ive-made-some-of-most-wonderful.html. May be because I have been reading about Chagall and the Russian Avante-Garde, I am seeing a bit of Chagall in the work.pixohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15703517960573152407noreply@blogger.com