Class # 11 - Releasing the Imagination/ Eduardo Pineda/ Art Education Philosophy

Guest Speaker
Guest speaker - artist, museum educator and community activist Eduardo Pineda responds to our learning goals and talk with us about the Maxine Greene reading - Releasing the Imagination

Class goals:
• What is the relationship between art and learning?
• What is art education?
• What is art education for and why does it matter?

For more on Eduardo Pineda - go to his website Storytelling Walls
Here are some links to the sites and organizations that Eduardo talked about in class:

• Open Door Contemporary Art Projects - site run by curator Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, Ph.D. developed to write about and represent the "crossroads in the African and Black diasporas."
• Renewing a First Voice - an article written by Pineda about the Ohlone murals in Berkeley for the Open Door Contemporary Art Projects.
• Toubabou Spectacle - Eduardo Pineda writes about his recent experience working on a Mural in Mali, for Open Door Contemporary Art Projects.
• Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco - I've Know Rivers was a project that Eduardo helps to create while at MoAD.
  
• Youth Development Network - works collaboratively with other organizations and agencies to provide services for youth.

Introduction to Final Project
Chose one of the following assignments to complete your final project for class - your own personal arts education philosophy:

1.) Write a 3-5-page, double-spaced paper with 12 point font, describing your own philosophy of art education. Questions to address include:

• What is the overall purpose of education as you see it?
• How can or does art education fulfill this purpose?
• How scholars and theorists influenced your thinking?
  
• How have your own experiences influenced your thinking?
  
• What strategies and/or approaches to education and art education are exciting and of most interest to you—why?

2.) Create a work of art (in any media or form) that reflects your art education philosophy to present to the class along with a one-page typed, single spaced (12 point font) statement of your art education philosophy and scholarly influences.

All ideas should be expressed in your own words and supported by the theories and ideas of scholars and practitioners. You are also encouraged to reference your own experiences, if appropriate, to support your ideas.

• The artwork and/or paper is to be turned on the last day of class April 27th – NO EXCEPTIONS!

• As well - all online blogging journals completed with all assignments by April 27th - NO EXCEPTIONS!

Homework
Read respond to the following reading on the blog:

• Deasy & Stevenson: Third Space: When Learning Matters, Chapter 2, page 121-130 in reader.
• Please respond in TWO WAYS - Fill our the worksheet we gave you in class and BRING THAT WORKSHEET COMPLETED TO NEXT CLASS, and RESPOND TO WRITING PROMPT ON BLOGGING JOURNAL SITE.