Friday, November 28, 2008
The end has come...
this will be my last post (for now anyways). While I didn't achieve my initial goal of creating an art project each week, I felt I have come a long way over the semester. I'm not scared to share my artistic creations and I have come to appreciate the role of art in the classroom. I am hoping that over the break I can continue to explore visual arts.
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Hi, Amanda. I have now reviewed all of your blog posts and I will give you an overview comment here. Then I will send a personalized rubric and your grade by email when I have all of the blogs finished.
Amanda, you have about twelve posts and your blog has some sidebar images showing two of your favourite paintings and, I believe, one of your own photographs. Other than the post about the Potluck Performance, your blog is missing exploration of performing arts – music, dance, and drama. Your interest in visual arts is strongly related to teaching and I encourage you to continue your goal, not quite achieved this term due to workload, of producing the kind of art projects you might do in the classroom yourself. I appreciated your collage lesson and the way you emphasized arts elements as you had the students create an interesting product that did NOT depend on drawing skill! A great contribution of your blog is the war museum resource that you shared and the important issues that you raised re: scarcity of time and materials, the effects of an emphasis on product over process on students’ creativity. (Note my comment on your “Capturing Images” post.) You also were very articulate in expressing your art teaching philosophy as you commented on “The Dot”. I hope the end of the blog assignment is not the end of the journey that you started here, and that you will have enjoyed your experience enough to continue. I loved your kumquat art post – this is the essence of creativity – a playfulness, and seeing art in shapes and colours and opportunities that others may overlook. However, consider that drawing skills can be taught and if you had had a teacher who knew how to teach those skills, you may have been able to overcome much of your frustration (See Mona Brooks’ book, Drawing with Children). Have a happy holiday and best wishes for your continued art journey!
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