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Essential Question:
Essential Question:
How does art practice serve as a source of inspiration for meaningful teaching and learning in visual art?
Today's Agenda:
Today's Agenda:
Warm-up
Tree Like Me Sharing
What are our underlying intentions and commitments in this course?
Break
Call & Response
Closing check-in
Outcomes:
Outcomes:
I can collaborate to construct a sense of classroom community.
I can introduce myself to the community.
I can identify strategic thinking in my everyday life, artistic practice and teaching practice.
I can identify patterns, themes and authentic characteristics in my artmaking practice.
I can develop an understanding of the course expectations and overall scope and sequence.
Warmup
Warmup
Circle of Voices
Circle of Voices
When it is your turn to share, please share a word or phrase that resonated with you from the Ann Hamilton reading.
“Cut short on the floundering and you’ve cut short the possible creative outcomes. Cheat on the chaotic stumbling-about, and you’ve robbed yourself of the raw stuff that feeds the imagination.”
Denise Shekerjian
"No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Life is a series of surprises."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Tree Like Me
A Tree Like Me
Let's take a moment to share our trees!
Please share as much as you can about the following:
-How is your tree like you?
-When you heard the prompt, what materials did you feel called to use, what did your mind/body/spirit feel compelled to do?
-Did you encounter any problems? What approaches did you take to resolving those problems?
Before we engage in some further artmaking, how does this fit into the scope of our explorations together?
Before we engage in some further artmaking, how does this fit into the scope of our explorations together?
Where are we in our shared journey?
Where are we in our shared journey?
To locate where we are now in our artistic practices, think a little bit about where you have been.
To locate where we are now in our artistic practices, think a little bit about where you have been.
Let's take 15 minutes right now to write a bit about our personal art histories.
Let's take 15 minutes right now to write a bit about our personal art histories.
Answer any of the following questions, in any order. Nobody will read this but you, so please be honest with yourself:
What is the first creative act you remember engaging in?
What did play look like for you as a child? Is it anything like your art practice now?
Which artists do you admire most? Why are they your role models?
What do you and your art role models have in common?
Do you collect anything?
Where does your inspiration tend to come from?
What action verbs would you use to describe your art practice while you're working?
When you work, do you enjoy the process or the result more?
What is your ideal creative activity?
At any points in your history, do you notice a braiding together of your art DNA and your teaching DNA? Where do they overlap? Please mark that point.
Call & Response
Call & Response
Now that we've thought a little bit about what is embodied in our artistic DNA, let's check out the documentation that you shared of your current artistic practices!
Now that we've thought a little bit about what is embodied in our artistic DNA, let's check out the documentation that you shared of your current artistic practices!
The call, and now the response!
The call, and now the response!
Peer Partner List:
Lizzie & Aly
Lauren & Melissa
Gavin & Debbie
Breanna & Erin
Troy & Vivian
Sage & Daniel
Maggie & Kailah
Locate the work of your partner.
Your partner's work is a call - in their own visual language.
What is it saying to you?
How do you feel called to respond?
Using your preferred materials, please create a response to your partner's work in YOUR personal visual language in order to reflect upon your underlying intention and embodied responses as a maker.
While you are working, be aware of (not critical of, just conscious of) your embodied response when called to this challenge.
For next week:
For next week:
-Read & Take Notes
-Read & Take Notes
*This is one of the required textbooks, I have provided this chapter to you in PDF form in case your copy hasn't arrived yet, but starting next week there will be assigned readings from the required texts that will not be scanned for you so please acquire the books if you haven't yet.
For both readings, please note something that resonated with you (one thing from each), something that you felt a little bit of friction about, and something that you had a question about. Please add your thoughts to this Padlet.
-Do/Create
-Do/Create
Upload documentation of your Response Artwork to the Call & Response Padlet below your partner's artwork. (I will reorganize the Padlet to facilitate that format).
Create a Google Slide presentation in your Google Folder (shared with me) and title it "My Artistic Practice Artifacts" Start inputting the notes/documentation that you have taken so far of your artistic practice. Continue documenting/noticing artifacts as you work in your studio.
Planning ahead: Week 4 (Thursday February 18th) each of you will be called to present a 4 minute introduction to your artistic practice. You will have the opportunity to share your screen and present slides that visually/verbally inform us about artistic practice. More criteria will be shared with you next week.
-Strategies Archive:
-Strategies Archive:
Strategy Assignment #2 - List/generate 4 strategies for staying organized while teaching/learning in an online setting
-Think about:
-Think about:
What is the most memorable art project that you made in your PreK-12 experience? Why was it memorable? You don't need to write this down anywhere, but please be prepared to discuss!
Summary of what must be turned in:
Something that resonated with you, something that you felt a little bit of friction about, and something that you had a question about from each reading added to this Padlet.
Your Response artwork added to this Padlet
A Google Slide document started & shared with me in your folder titled "My Artistic Practice Artifacts"
4 strategies for staying organized while teaching/learning in an online setting added to your Strategies Archive
& IF you haven't yet- please take a moment to fill out this First Day Check-in Google Form
OPTIONAL related readings:
If the above readings resonated with you, here are thematically related readings that I would assign if we had endless time. At the very least-- skim them to see what's there, feed off of them, save them for a future date 🌻
Bogart on the importance of clarifying your intention behind making - PDF
Dunning on reading for ideas and honing a spirit of inquiry - PDF
Sister Corita Kent on Plork - PDF
Sister Corita Kent on living as part of The Work - PDF
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