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Dali

PVB — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:25:18 CDT

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Creativity

PVB — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:09 CDT

Is creativity important? Why or why not?
What Can Creativity Do?

Your thoughts?

Copyright

PVB — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:08:53 CST

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?

Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

More Creative Commons; an interesting and illuminating video entitled 'Reticulum Rex' comes highly recommended.

ART TALK

PVB — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:33:32 CST

Art Talk is a wiki for anyone who wants to share ideas and resources for facilitating the production, 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.

Additionally, information and reflections on local projects such as Mapping, Bountiful Butterflies and Ricky Trione are included.

Sister wikis being developed at wetpaint are ART at the HeART of Social Studies and The Art & Science Connection and The Intersection of Art & Math.

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

Drawing Day - June 06, 2009 drop everything and draw Drawing Day is a worldwide drawing event encouraging everyone to drop everything and draw for the sake of art. The internet is an open canvas. Help us create 1 million drawings online this day and boost online art communities.

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 taken by PVB at Museums, NAEA, in workshops, and classrooms:

Design

PVB — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:21:38 CST

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Tessellations

PVB — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:18:26 CST

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.

Tessellation World of Makoto Nakamura
http://www.k4.dion.ne.jp/~mnaka/home.index.html
http://www.tessellation.info/?open=general/artistinfo.php&lang=english&style=layout&people_ID=5

Dancing

PVB — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:59:42 CST

My new favorite You Tube...

Art Advocacy

PVB — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:53:10 CST

Art Education: Let Them Be Heard

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

Listen to the Daniel Pink, Read A Whole New Mind, Listen to the Podcast at "Artfully Speaking"

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/podcasts/artfullySpeaking.xml

This is interesting...hear him out...let me know what you think??????

National Art Education Association 2008

PVB — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:24:53 CDT

I was one of approximately 3,600 (and counting) who attended the 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...

Paige's DIGITAL PHOTOS from NAEA 2008 New Orleans:

Paint Jam Dan Dunn
YOU MUST SEE THIS!
According to Dan Dunn at his 2008 NAEA performance, he was an at risk student, failing most subjects. After weeks of psychological testing, his parents were told to "put him in art school and get off his back." They listened.

Dan's work was put up on You Tube by one of his 5 children years ago and the rest is history. Dan told us he has paid off his mortgage, paid cash for his new car, and travels the world inspiring people with his talent and story. He doesn't "speak NCLB"...He's Gotta have ART! Where would Dan Dunn be today without his art teachers? The YouTube is great, but doesn't do the live performance justice!

Dr. Lynell Burmark
The second general session I attended was presented by Dr. Lynell Burmark.
Not only did she make remarks which were meaningful and informative, she was an excellent speaker...entertaining, humorous, and engaging. She practiced what she preached about visual literacy. Dr. Burmark earned her Ph.D. from Stanford, taught in the classroom and was an administrator. As a consultant and author (Visual Literacy: Learn to See, See to Learn) she offers free downloads at www.educatebetter.org

I took more notes during her session than any others attended. I'll share the highlights:

Visual Literacy: Reading (consume, interpret) & Writing (produce) Images
We live in a visual world; advertising includes compelling images
On billboards, text is even visual....
Color and Image are FIRST
visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than text
words are sequential...images are simultaneous
words only recall images we have already seen
"traditional US education: totally a waste of time"
quote from a young child: I didn't think purple and orange went together until i SAW the sunset
"we don't see things as they are ...we see things as WE are
abstraction comes after the concrete
when people laugh, stress decreases...creativity increases...
RESOURCES for images:
- childrens artwork
- photos
- internet
- Web museum
- Flickr
The immune system is boosted by looking at images like Van Goghs sunflowers...share images of HOPE...positive images

I am just beginning to explore the resources Dr. Burmark provided. I spoke with her personally after the session and she gave me a CD of her work I will share when I review it.

Thursday afternoon, Dr. Craig Roland presented Tips and Technologies for Teaching Art in a Digital Age. Craig teaches graduate and undergraduate art education classes at the University of Florida. Among the good ideas, he shared a list of
20 Useful Web 2.0 Tools and Websites for Art Teachers:

Art Education 2.0- arted20.ning.com- Social network for art educators.
Artsonia.com- Share students' artwork with others in the world's largest online kid's art museum.
Blogger.com- set up a personal or group blog in minutes.
Commoncraft.com- Short videos on Web 2.0 tools and practices.
Del.icio.us- Social bookmarking site used to organize and share links to Web resources.
Digication.com- Create e-portfolios and online learning communities.
Edublogs.org- Set up a free education blog in minutes.
Ed.Voicethread.com- Upload pictures and create an audio narrative to go along with them.
Flickr.com- Popular photo-sharing site.
Google Docs (www.google.com)- Collaborative writing tool.
Google Reader (www.google.com) - collect and read RSS feeds from your favorite blogs and news sources much like you read your email.
JumpCut.com- Online video-editing tool.
One-Page Guides (timdavies.org.uk/tags/onepage)- Introductory guides to Web 2.0 tools and practices.
TeacherTube.com- Educational video-sharing site.
PBWiki.com- Collaborative writing tool.
Sketchcast.com- Record a sketch with or without voiceover.
SlideShare (www.slideshare.net)- Host and share your presentations.
Tabblo.com- Photo-sharing site.
Wikispaces.com- Collaborative writing tool.
Twitter.com- Instant messaging, social networking and blogging tool.

Thanks Craig!

More to come...

ARTIST: Ricky Trione

PVB — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:02:07 CDT

Art education, character education, diverse learning styles, perseverance, and special needs were just some of the domains and dispositions revealed as faculty and preservice teachers in the College of Education had the privilege and pleasure of hearing Ricky Trione's story and watching him paint; we actually finger painted with Ricky as he inspired us to make a difference in the lives of others.

Check out the slideshow below to view pictures of Ricky's presentation for College of Education students and faculty; select the links to read more about his journey and how he has inspired teachers and students across the Gulf Coast .

All of the paintings that Ricky creates are tactile, and are meant to be touched. He creates an outline of his subject with a raised media that allows him to feel the space. Many times Ricky paints with his fingers in order to feel the canvas and keep his bearings. This technique of painting did not come naturally to Ricky, who spent much of his earlier years rendering finely detailed pen and ink drawings. Now, his focus is not on detail as much. He now uses bold colors—something he would have never done when he had sight. “I was a perfectionist,” recalls Ricky. Now he says he’s learned that art is not about being perfect.

Ricky Trione: Blind Artist

Ricky's vision left him one eye at a time. His left eye was permanently damaged in an accident while on active duty as Captain in the Army in 1993. A logging truck slung an object through the open window of his vehicle, destroying his retina. The second accident happened years later in 2000 when Ricky’s vehicle overheated along Highway 59 in North Baldwin County, Alabama. Ricky pulled to the side of the road to check the engine of the vehicle just as an 18-wheeler drove by and threw a large section of tire tread from the truck. The debris hit him across his right eye and knocked him unconscious, causing permanent blindness.
Ricky's MySpace Page

Paige's Shrimp....THANKS RICKY!

See also:
Art Education for the Blind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u65bKveNc0
What's Possible? Art Education for the Blind

More Special Art Ed at:
http://arttalk.wetpaint.com/page/Special+Art+Education

Special Art Education

PVB — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:54:45 CDT

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

A Brush with Darkness
http://blindartist.com/
"The artwork of Lisa Fittipaldi demonstrates that true genius extends beyond the limits of our senses. Only a few times each Millennium does the world get to experience the visions of a true genius. We have seen the inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci, and the artistic genius of Picasso. We might wonder how Beethoven was able to compose his most memorable and dynamic compositions after he became deaf, yet we have no doubt of his accomplishments. Within the past few years the world has come to know Lisa Fittipaldi, an artist being recognized as having the evolutionary genius of Da Vinci, Beethoven and Picasso."

Mapping

PVB — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:03:23 CDT

A concept map is a graphical representation of a domain of knowledge, consisting of nodes representing concepts, objects, or events connected by directional links that describe the relationships among and between the nodes. Concepts are arranged so that the most general concepts appear at the top or middle of the concept map, with less inclusive and more specific concepts emerging below or around (Novak, 1977, 1978, 1998, 2004).

An exploration of the International literature reveals Mind Mapping® as teaching and learning method that emphasizes visual representation and offers a variation of concept mapping. This method was developed by Tony Buzan (2006) and integrates the use of color and symbols or pictures with the words. The creation of concept/mind maps may also be facilitated with the use of Inspiration® software that allows learners to create a concept/mind map using the various symbols and features of the program.

Check out the images at the Mind Mapping the Elements page.

ART NEWS

PVB — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:18:52 CDT

Americ an Museum of Natural History shows an Exquisite Rainbow-Colored Diamond Creation

Classroom Connectivity and Art Bring a World of Possibilities to Louisiana and Mississippi Educators

The Smithsonian American Art Museum and Cisco collaborated to help educators use technology to integrate the visual arts into their curriculum.

"I can't wait for school to start so I can jump into my lessons. I have redone my entire curriculum so that I can incorporate art into each lesson." --Malia Triggs, 5th and 6th Grade Reading and Language Arts Teacher, Rawls Springs Attendance Center, Forrest County School District, Mississippi

http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2008/ts_090408.html

What is a Wiki?

PVB — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:56:56 CDT

Ways to Use a Wiki
In Wesley Fryer's presentation “Get Wiki with It” at EncycloMedia 2008 in Oklahoma City, session participants brainstormed different ways educators can and are using wikis to support learning inside and outside the classroom. Check out the list.

Learning the Wiki Way
by Jason Welker - Shanghai American School
The workshop at this site will demonstrate techniques for using a wiki as a more dynamic and interactive alternative to a class website, a substitute for pen and paper homework assignments, a forum for communication about class related topics, a way to hold online exam review sessions, and a comprehensive, collaborative, student created course study guide.

Bountiful Butterflies

PVB — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:12:15 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, Culture, Education, Food, and Fun.

Understanding & Responding to ART

PVB — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:44:15 CDT

Andy Rooney on Public Art

What do YOU think?

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

Mind Mapping the Elements

PVB — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:55:17 CDT

Preservice teachers in an Art for the Elementary School course represent their knowledge of the elements of art through MIND MAPPING. What is a Mind Map?

Mapping Art

PVB — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:58:40 CDT

Students create concept/mind maps representing concepts they associate with art.

Production Process

PVB — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:50:13 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
Tessellations
Transformations
- more to come...come back!

Transformations

PVB — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:11:12 CDT


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...