Class #3 – Self as Learner – Frameworks and Process

Overview of Day – Check in on the last 2 weeks

CCA SAMART Program
Ann Wettrich, Co Director of the Center for Art and Public Life will talk with us about CCA's SMART program and other student opportunities at the Center.

Reading Reflections and Sharing SHoM
Building off of the homework assignment to reflect on their own artistic process through the lens of SHoM, we will begin by talking about Twyla Tharp article, The Creative Habit
:

• What did you learn from the article about artistic process?
• What are the ways you begin your process?
  

Each student will be asked to think of their own artistic practice through the lens of Studio Habit of the Mind and to write each habit along with how that habit fits into their individual process on Post-Its. Each do a 3 minute analysis of their artistic process using the language of SHoM while we chart what they have to say in a large SHoM wheel on the wall.

Next we will discuss the Hetland and Winner article Art for Our Sake: School arts classes matter more than ever – but not for the reasons you think (Boston Globe, September 2007) - making the point that habits are not hierarchical or independent, but flexibly, interchanging habits that skilled artists move back and forth with in a fluid way.

• What contribution do you think that Hetland and Winner's work makes to the field of arts education?
• What is the potential contribution for artists themselves and\or for the public value of arts in schools or artists and arts in community and public life?

Looking at Artistic Process - Artist Fred Wilson - Art 21 video series.
We will watch Fred Wilson talk about his creative process and examine this through the lens of SHoM. After the video we will talk about Wilson's process using the language of SHoM.
Homework - Due February 9th, 2009

1. Reading and Written Reflection on blogs: (see website for writing prompts)

• Make sure you catch up with all the required blog entrees for the past 3 weeks.
• MAKE SURE YOU COMMENT TO AT LEAST ONE OF YOUR FELLOW CLASSMATES FOR LAST WEEKS POSTS AND THIS WEEKS POSTS.
• READ - Eisner, E. The Arts and the Creation of the Mind, Chapter 1, The Role of the Arts in Transforming Consciousness, Chapter 2, Visions and Version of Art Education, Chapter 8, What Education can Learn from the Arts, Pg 21 - 46. SEE Blogging Journal SITE FOR WRITING RESPONSE PROMPT.
  

2. Preparing for Art Fair Presentation

• Thinking about the Tharp article and SHoM, start to come up with one or two questions – “big questions” that you want to know about how art is essential to learning and how local arts educators are thinking about how arts are connected to learning. What methodology are the using? What evidence do they have that students are learning through the arts?
• You will be asked to pick two site to research, a public school site where there is an active arts or arts integration program; a non-profit or arts organization like a museum or gallery, etc, where they offer arts education opportunities.
  
• You will be asked to research and present in an “installation” style presentation called the “Art Fair” the information your find through this process.
  
• Take your two questions and anything else that is related to this research learning process for you, put them into some kind of organizational process like the “box” that will help you be able to make your process of learning visible to you and to others – the method you come up with is your choice – but you will have to share this method as part of your final presentation.
• Fill out Art Fair planning worksheet and bring to class next week - you will be emailed this sheet along with Project Guidelines.