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Creativity

PVB — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:04:31 CDT

Book I am reading...
Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson

Ken Robinson poses the following questions:
Why is it essential to promote creativity?
What's the problem? Why do so many adults think they're not creative?
What should be done?

I'll share reflections when I complete the book...

RSA Edge Lecture with Sir Ken Robinson - Changing Paradigms
16th Jun 2008

In the final of this series of lectures creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson will ask how do we make change happen in education.

http://www.thersa.org/events/vision/vision-videos/sir-ken-robinson

Interactive Art Sites

PVB — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:50:24 CDT

MoMa Destination Modern Art
http://moma.org/destination/#

http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/

Eduweb This website has a list of great interactive educational websites. This link will take you specifically to the visual arts list. I have not tried them all out but my personal favorites are The Rennaissance Connection, ArtEdventures, and A.Pintura: Art Detective.

NGA Kids JUNGLE Interactive Create an imaginary landscape with NGAkids JUNGLE. Mix and match the animals, control the weather and lighting conditions, or construct flowers, trees, and plants. An "AUTO" button generates random compositions, so you can sample program options and experiment with special effects as a starting point for your own designs. This Shockwave interactive is intended for children of all ages. JUNGLE is inspired by the paintings of French artist Henri Rousseau.

Mr. Picassohead Create your own Picasso Head

Jackson Pollock Create splatter-paint images in the style of Jackson Pollock

Kaleidescope Painter Create kaleidescope design

Tessellate!This activity allows the user to generate a polygon that will repeat without overlapping across a plane.
Starting from a rectangle, triangle or hexagon, the user bends the lines of the polygon, creating a new polygon. The user can choose several different colors to enhance the pattern, and can observe the different effects that colors have on tessellations.

http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/full_book.asp?ProductID=2251

http://www.myoats.com/create.aspx

Understanding & Responding to ART

PVB — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:12:10 CDT

How to Critique ART from the Twisted Textiles Blog
http://www.twistedtextiles.com/2007/03/15/how-to-critique-artwork-like-a-pro/

PowerPoints from Rock Ledge Elementary Fine Arts Program
http://www.seymour.k12.wi.us/rle/art/artistheads.html

Special Art Education

PVB — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:09:27 CDT

Art Education for the Blind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u65bKveNc0

Bountiful Butterflies

PVB — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:10:07 CDT

Metamorphisis, Renewal, Stages; these are just some of the BIG IDEAS we are exploring as education students and faculty at the University of South Alabama partner with our Mobile International Festival friends and family to celebrate 25 years of Collaboration, Education, Food, and Fun.

Tessellations

bjsantora — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:57:56 CDT

Tessellations.org is a good site for exploring the art form...I especially like the "Do-It-Yourself" links where the step-by-step directions and examples model the creative variety of transformations that tessellated paterns may produce. Check it out!

http://www.tessellations.org/index.htm

Tessellations: How to Create Them - Jim McNeill
This video produced by Crystal Productions, features tessellation artist Jim McNeill. The video includes basic concepts, historic examples and step-by-step demonstration of how to create three types of tessellations. It is well paced, well filmed and very easy to follow. It is appropriate for use with a wide range of ages. I recommend it over others I have seen on this topic.

National Art Education Association 2008

PVB — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:34:10 CDT

National Art Education Association Conference which was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 26 - 30. I presented 2 sessions; one on art integration professional development and the other on early childhood literacy/parent education strategies through the arts. Most importantly, I learned a lot and made connections with art educators all over the world. Check back for presentation reflections, images, and ideas I will share from this event!

03/28/08 Where do I begin? The NAEA conference surpassed my expectations. I feel at home with this diverse group of art educators who inspire me to think differently about teaching and learning, engage in new processes, and create in diverse ways. I am overwhelmed with new ideas. As I reflect and synthesize over the next few days, I will add the ideas and wealth of resources which got my attention at the numerous sessions I attended.

The first "attention-getter"... As I stood in line to catch a bus to the Crayola Reception at Mardi Gras World, I (and others) couldn't help but notice the man wearing a jacket covered with pins from past NAEA conferences. As we talked, we discover his jacket was embellished by his high school students and he added pins from his years of NAEA attendance. Later, as I read the convention program, I discover on the first page he is Dean Johns, the 2008 Convention Coordinator. Dean is an art supervisor in North Carolina and definitely exhibits the NAEA SPIRIT!

NAEA 2008 SUPER SESSIONS I Attended...

As always, I am interested in what Dr. Elliot Eisner has to say. Dr. Eisner spoke Wednesday afternoon along with Read Diket, David Burton, Arthur Efland, and MacArthur Goodwin in the SUPER SESSION entitled Connections Between Mental Functions and Artistic Performance. Contemporary findings in cognitive psychology/neuroscience related to student learning in the arts was presented. (READ Eisner's 10 Lessons the Arts Teach)
Eisner's words of wisdom......

brains are biological...minds are cultural
education promotes the growth of minds
education changes the way people think and do
in the hierarchy of subjects, arts are at the bottom
we must promote the intellectual and aesthetic growth of student culture
we NEED a school culture which makes artful projects important
there is an art in math, law, social science, etc...
aesthetics are intrinsically motivating and should be pursued in all content
to know how smart someone is, determine what they are able to DO

It was great communicating with Dr. David Burton via e-mail after the conference. David is at Virginia Commonwealth University and provided me with his presentation references on the connections between mental functions and artistic performance as well as examples of visual illusions and constancies.
Additionally, I purchased Dr. Burton's book Exhibiting Student Art: The Essential Guide for Teachers. I am anxious to read Burton's suggestions for involving students in the exhibition process and gaining new ideas to share with the teachers I work with.

On Thursday, the well-known artist/illustrator/author FAITH RINGGOLD spoke on Choosing the Artistic Path. Faith Ringgold is known for her quilts and award-winning children's book TAR BEACH. She shared images of her works of art and spoke candidly about her own life, struggles, successes, and racial issues. Her address was inpirational and thought-provoking.

NAEA GENERAL SESSIONS attended...
Bonnie Rushlow (Professor, Department of Art, Middle Tennessee State University) delivered her presidential address at the first general session, challenging us to re-imagine our important role as art educators; to teach, learn, and lead. She expressed her optimism about the times, emphasizing what the advances in technology allow us to do; for example, you are reading this wiki and will be able to share my paint jam experience through the you tube I embed. Dr. Rushlow's "special guest" was the PAINT JAM MAN Dan Dunn. The pictures and video below do not do justice to the excitement of his improvisational performance. His words and personal story were just as inspiring as his performance. He created 3 works of art during his performance...

MY DIGITAL PHOTOS:

Paint Jam Dan Dunn
YOU MUST SEE THIS!

Personality Profiles

PVB — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:24:07 CDT

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Production Process

PVB — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:17:32 CDT

Art Production- The creation of art that ranges from wire sculpture to oil painting. The production of art involves imaginiative and critical thinking processes. The kinesthetic student is also stimulated because they manipulate art tools and their hands. The production of art can guide us through higher levels of thinking and contemplation of our environment. The production of art can be found everywhere. You can find it on murals in schools, quilts, sidewalks, buildings, and studios. Most importantly, the creation of art is the expression of the heart, mind and hand. (from Art Teacher Toolbox - Incredible Art Department)

Bulletin Boards
Mask-Making
Personality Profiles
- more to come...come back!

Night of the Arts: Gilmore Elementary

PVB — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:26:15 CDT

	Crystal Bolen and Paige Baggett Mrs. Crystal Bolen is the art teacher at Gilmore Elementary in Jackson Alabama. She is responsible for the magnificent Gillmore Night of the Arts!
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ART TALK

PVB — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:43:06 CDT

Art Talk is a wiki for anyone who wants to share ideas for facilitating the understanding of and responding to visual art in the Kindergarten to College Classroom.

This wiki includes ideas about creativity, awesome artists, production processes, and copyright.

Pages are initiated by elementary education graduate students and faculty in the College of Education at the University of South Alabama in Mobile.

Please share your thoughts, ideas, and resources.

Visit the latest entries (in progress) about my adventures at the 2008 National Art Education Association Conference in New Orleans!

Photos I have taken at Museums, NAEA, in workshops, and classrooms:

Copyright

PVB — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:16:11 CDT

What should we know?

A Fair(y) Use Tale

Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law

Stanford professor Larry Lessig is one of our foremost authorities on copyright issues. In a time when “content” is not confined to a film canister, Lessig has a vision for reconciling creative freedom with marketplace competition.

Copyright Sites for Teachers and Students (by Craig Roland)

Copyright Kids
The Copyright Society of the U.S.A. is a nonprofit corporation that was founded in 1953 to foster interest in and advance the study of copyright law and the rights in literature, music, art, the theater, motion pictures, and other forms of intellectual property.
Friends of Active Copyright Education (FA©E), is a new initiative of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. The principal goal of FA©E is to provide a broad range of resources to foster and support copyright education. To further that goal, a FA©E subcommittee developed the copyrightkids.org web site to teach school-age children the basics of copyright law.

What is Creative Commons?

Your Thoughts

PVB — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:35:28 CDT

A place for general comments, ideas, and/or suggestions for this wiki. Anything that doesn't seem to fit on other pages and related threads...

Check this video out...
NOT ON THE TEST

Art Advocacy

PVB — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:29:28 CDT

Daniel Pink...A Whole New Mind... Watch the YouTubes...Listen to the Podcast!

Awesome Artists

PVB — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:05:41 CDT

The following pages (created by students) focus on ARTISTS and their works. Images, activities, and questions to promote UNDERSTANDING and RESPONDING are included.

"The arts are the rain forests of society. They produce the oxygen of freedom, and they are the early warning system when freedom is in danger." Wayne, June Artist (1846 - 1933)

Anderson, Bearden, Cezanne, Chagall, Da Vinci, Garza, Guyton, Lawrence, Moses, Ohr, Picasso, Remington, Renoir, Rockwell, Rousseau, Tanner, Van Gogh, Warhol, White, Wilson

What works of art do you recognize?

More NAEA Photos

PVB — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:58:43 CDT


NAEA Crayola Welcome Party at Mardi Gras World in New Orleans	The 50th Anniversary of Crayola Box of 64...and plenty of cake for everyone	The floats were amazing...color, texture, and form...all the elements and principles of design...
The New Orleans musicians rocked!	The parade was awesome.	The local high school band entertained us.

Tanner

gorniattipoe — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:01:43 CST

Facts about Tanner Henry Ossawa Tanner was the son of an affluent , well educated African-American family. His father was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He persued an artistic career in a higher institution. Tanner enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1879. At the Academy, Tanner joined Thomas Eakins' coterie. Tanner sought to represent black subject with dignity, so he wrote"Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, the ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior." The banjo had therefore become a symbol of derision, and caricatures of insipid, smiling African-Americans strumming the instrucment were a cliche. Most of Tanner's works were religious. He was age 13 when he decided to be an artist when he saw a painter at work during a walk in Fairmount Park near his home.

Transformations

PVB — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:41:55 CST


Problem: What can a simple coffee can be transformed into? Graduate students came up with multiple solutions... This coffee can was transformed into an elephant!
More to come...

Mask-Making

PVB — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:00:43 CST

Garza

SRankin — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:46:18 CST

Carmen Lomas Garza is a Mexican American artist. She decided to be an artist at the age of 13, Garza decided she would become an artist. Her artistic focus is on her Mexican-American heritage.

Carmen Lomas Garza (This is a link to Garza's website.)

Here are some links that show lessons for Garza's paintings:

In My Family by: Carmen Lomas Garza (Garza's paintings are included in the book In Mt Family.)

Family Pictures by: Carmen Lomas Garza (Family Pictures is a book of Garza's paintings.)

Family Album

I have attached an integrated art lesson plan for Garza's paintings Cumpleanos de Lala y Tudi (Lala and Tudi's Birthday) and Sandia (Watermelon).