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PS11: Coordinates and plans presentations of student learning in the arts.
Evidence 1: Student art camp shows.
Description: The culminating project for my 2019 summer art camps was for the students to design, plan, and prepare for a final art show that their friends and family were invited to attend. Students chose which artworks they would include in the show, and they decided as a group how they present and display their work.
Analysis: Students in my art camps were thrilled at the chance to show their friends and families their artwork on the last day of camp. This activity was an incredibly successful one for all students involved. For both camps, we started the afternoon with a few prompts: What does it mean to have an exhibition? Why is it important to show your work? How are galleries and museums organized? How will we be organizing the space to show our work? As a mere facilitator, I allowed the students to make these important decisions and organize their own art shows so that they had complete ownership over their exhibition.
Students practiced talking about their work, the process, why they chose certain materials over others, what was difficult, and what they learned along the way. Presenting is an important part of a young artist's experience and should be built into any arts curriculum, even in summer camps.
Evidence 2: Artist works presented in school spaces.
Description: These images show various artworks created and displayed in the schools during my time student teaching.
Analysis: During the course of my time student teaching, there were several opportunities for students to show their work outside of the art classroom. Many were planned, some were impromptu displays of art in the hallways of the school. These two photos to the left show a color mixing and color wheel study in class that was then taken to the halls. Third grade students brought their color mixing studies and created a color wheel on the wall in the main entryway of the school. Anyone visiting the school, every student, and school faculty or staff would not be able to miss this display of artwork. The students involved were so excited to "sneak" out of art class and surprise their school community with a burst of color - colors that they had created - by attaching them to the entryway wall. I heard many of them proudly tell teachers, fellow students, and their family members that they had been a part of this exciting presentation of art.
The bottom two images are examples of artwork that was planned to be hung up in the school hallways. The image on the left is the kindergarten process art and the one on the right is an eighth grader's final culminating project.
In both instances, students expressed joy in having the opportunity to show their work outside of class. The importance of having a chance to present work is key to an arts education as it builds confidence and brings the art world into the community.
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