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• What are four sources of inspiration for art?
• What are three sources of subject matter for art work?

• Why are drawing and modeling essential developmental learning tasks?
• Art is a unique way of knowing
• Art is a unique way of feeling
• How are drawing and clay modeling skills and behaviors cultivated?
• Find meaning/feeling in materials
• Find meaning/feeling in visual form (both representational and nonrepresentational)
• Use symbolic visual language (both representational and nonrepresentational)

Illustrated with this Getty Center link to Charles White's work: http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/Images/P/wanted.html

• What other artistic behaviors can be cultivated?

Drawing and modeling are only two art processes.

• How many traditional processes and materials can we list?
• Karen Carroll reminds us that each way of working, each material expresses knowing, thinking, and feeling in a different way.



Illustration: Before Dawn Romare Bearden 1911-1988. A 9' by 13.5' Mural produced from a 12" by 18" collage, Charlotte, NC Library. http://www.plcmc.lib.nc.us/whatsnew/art/color.htm

• Provide: materials - places - times - positive feedback
• Provide experience/observation activities - discuss observations - ask observational questions - construct memories and a knowledge base - enter the data
• Motivate accretion - make passive knowledge active (using questions that add remembered details without telling them the answers).

• DO NOT draw for them (you need them to show you how)
• DO NOT make any marks on their pictures (get their input on name and title placement)
• DO NOT use - examples - demonstrations - patterns - tracing - coloring books - copy work













DO Provide experience/observation activities
ask observational questions

• discuss observations
• construct memories
• construct a knowledge base - enter the data
• use preliminary practice - rehearse before the performance
• encourage planning - thinking - anticipation

• Use if drawing is SMALL on LARGE paper
• Use if drawing is finished quickly without much thinking - impulsive child
• Use if child is unsure of self and needs HELP getting started - deliberate child
• DO NOT draw for them but teach them how to see and draw

• use subjects for which the child has had experience or subjects that the child can observe while drawing
• have them practice using materials - do not demonstrate the subject being drawn
• discuss the subject being created
• follow the edge of the thing with your finger on the object
• use questions for accretion
• ask them for ideas and options
• encourage practice on another paper

Respect the child's creative ownership Do not make any marks on their pictures

Things not to do

• Avoid Patterns
• Avoid Tracing
• Avoid coloring books (workbook activity?)
• Avoid dot to dot activities
• Avoid copy work
• Avoid examples unless shown after the creative work
• Avoid demonstrations unless essential - and then follow with immediate hands-on practice

Inception of an idea **

• Nature and constructed environment
• inner feelings, imagination
• quest for order, universal themes
• ordinary experience

1. Practice with materials and ideas - rehearse it -
2. Observation, make visual studies
3. Change of work habits - a good way to insure new learning - new ways to see
4. Exploration of meanings, symbolism - often very motivational - promotes caring about . . .
5. Consideration of purposes and means - deals with function of something - what is it for?
Does it celebrate, commemorate, contain, disseminate, convince, entertain, amuse, organize, design, and so on? Artwork has many roles to play in our world. Without the arts we would lack the best ways to express love, grief, joy, and many of the most important aspects of life.

• Execution in a Medium** (learning to create with materials) - art making methods

• Assess it and learn from it

• Study similar examples from other cultures and/art history

• Read the work. Find out what others see in it. "What do you see first?" Why?
• Talk about the work

Study similar examples from other cultures and art history

• Study work that deals with the same art concepts, social issues, or material/methods learned in the production

What is Discipline Based Art Education - DBAE ?
The four discipines expected in the art curriculum:
Production, Criticism, Art History, Aesthetics