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Date Posted: 22:40:07 05/22/03 Thu
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Knowledge Loom Launches New Spotlight—Choice-Based Art Education
I looked at a painting by Paul Gaughin. He made a painting with two girls sitting down cutting flowers. I made a picture that had two girls. It is of me and my mom. She was doing a braid in my hair to go out to eat. We had the same clothes on and we both had braids in our hair. I was making hair things.
A Third Grader’s Artist Statement
If you visit The Knowledge Loom (http://knowledgeloom.org/tab), an interactive best-practice website created by The Education Alliance at Brown University with initial funding from the U.S. Department of Education, you will see the tempera painting that this third-grade “Gaughin” created. It’s just one of several samples of student work that you’ll find on one of The Loom’s newest spotlights: “Choice-based Art—Teaching for Artistic Behavior.” The spotlight also allows you to listen in on a conversation about the pedagogy of choice-based art education and add your own thoughts to an online panel discussion. Though many educators advocate for a student-centered approach to learning, The Knowledge Loom is the first interactive Web resource with this model as a focus in the art room. Choice-based art classrooms simulate studios, offering effective organization of space, time, and materials that enable students to create work which is individual, compelling, and personally meaningful.
Just what is involved in choice-based art? Katherine Douglas, seasoned classroom teacher, practicing artist, and long-time proponent of this way of teaching explains, “Sometimes artists are exploring materials which ultimately give them their ideas, and so, these materials must be in the control of the artist. In a choice-based classroom we make certain that our students are in control of their materials, even our very young students . . .Some of the best art emerges from student exploration.” Douglas and her colleagues at the Teaching for Artistic Behavior Partnership developed the content for the Loom’s art-focused spotlight, based on their many years of classroom experience and their own work as artists. Douglas sat down recently with John Crowe, chair of the Art Education Department at Massachusetts College of Art, and Mary Anne Mather, one of the creators of the Loom, to discuss the differences between traditional and choice-based art education. As Crowe states, in many conventional classrooms “the art teacher essentially is the artist, and the students just carry out assignments. They are not really independent explorers.” A full transcript (along with audio) of their conversation can be found at http://www.knowledgeloom.org/tab/tab_transcript.html.
The spotlight offers best practices in art teaching illustrated with actual classroom examples.
For more information, call Mary Anne Mather at (800) 521-9550, extension 226.
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