Creative Process

What I learned about the creative process...

I learned that research was crucial to be able to teach my class properly. While I knew about a lot of these mediums already and had tried them myself, there were many instances where I misremembered the steps or would have done something inefficiently. Watching other people create with these mediums opened my eyes to other methods of using them. Additionally, learning about the history of the mediums helped determine what the art form was really about.  For example, I always knew graffiti was about rebellion but further research exposed that it was also a rebellion against traditional art spaces (Farell, “Graffiti Q&A”). CPSA260 was like a different kind of research, with all of the workshop leaders and TAs pooling what they had learned from their classes the previous week. One of the most useful things I learned was how to create an active learning classroom. I used this in my lessons by allowing the students to move around the room to different stations and I also sat at the same tables as them when possible.