Making+Meaning+-+A+Studio+Approach+to+Teaching+and+Learning

July 24-26, 2012
 * Welcome to the Teacher Programs Wiki page Making Meaning - A Studio Approach to Teaching and Learning**


 * Teacher Program:** What goes on in a students' mind when they make art? What thought processes are put in motion through material manipulation, design, and aesthetic engagement? Get ready to learn by doing in this three-day workshop where you will discover and reflect on how art making promotes the application of prior knowledge, innovation, analysis, problem solving, evaluation, and other critical thinking skills. Participants will explore a variety of media (e.g., drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, digital, etc.) to reflect on making and learning. No special skills are required, only an open mind and a willingness to experiment.

__**Resources and References**__


 * Workshop Agenda:**


 * Contemporary Art and Teaching:**
 * Five Ways to Integrate: Using Strategies from Contemporary Art, Julia Marshall
 * Postmodern Principles: In Search of a 21st Century, Olivia Gude
 * Principles of Possibility: Considerations for a 21st-Century Art and Culture Curriculum, Olivia Gude
 * Seven Principles for Visual Culture Education, Paul Duncum
 * Visible Thinking: Using Contemporary Art to Teach Conceptual Skills, Julia Marshall


 * Studio Based Art and Teaching:**
 * Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education, Lois Hetland
 * The In-Depth Studio Approach: Incorporating an Art Museum Program into a Pre-Primary Classroom, Andri Savva and Eli Trimis


 * Processes, Observation and Problem Solving:**
 * Artistic Intelligences, Howard Gardner
 * Conceptual Problem Solving during Artistic Representation, Eliza Pitri
 * Responses of Young Children to Contemporary Art Exhibitions: The Role of Artistic Experiences, Andri Savva and Eli Trimis
 * "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", Thomas McEvilley
 * Understanding the Artmaking Process: Reflective Practice, Sydney Walker


 * Cognition/Matacognition:**
 * Artistic Cognition and Creativity, Graeme Sullivan
 * Embodied Mathematics, Burton Voorhees
 * Learn to Learn with Metacognitive Reflections, Author Unknown

__**Other Resources and Information**__ > students learn, and the types of decisions teachers make in designing and carrying out instruction."
 * Online Resources:**
 * Project Zero Studio Thinking Project. The Studio Thinking Project was designed to answer questions "about how the arts are taught, what
 * Project Zero's Studio Thinking Framework
 * Spiral Workshop, University of Illinois in Chicago. The Spiral Workshop is both a place for teen artists to explore artmaking practices and a laboratory for art curriculum development.
 * Every Art, Every Child supports K-12 CPS teachers using the Studio Thinking Framework and American art in the classroom.
 * Aspen


 * Art 21 Artists:**
 * Art 21 has used media as a way of acquainting general publics to contemporary art and artists, and has also developed new models for both teaching and leaning about the creative process. View the artists' pages below to learn more about their processes and be inspired by their creative and material choices.
 * * Allora and Calzadilla || * Mark Bradford || * David Altmejd ||
 * * Ann Hamilton || * Fred Wilson ||  ||


 * || [[image:Hamilton.jpeg width="247" height="246" caption="Ann Hamilton, Body Object Series, 1984. Photo Credit Ann Hamilton"]] || [[image:mark_bradford_fly_in_the_buttermilk_d5496996h.jpeg width="283" height="236" caption="Mark Bradford, Fly in the Buttermilk, 2002"]] ||

__**AIC/SAIC Resources**__


 * Educator Resource Finderand My Collections. The Educator Resource Finder was created to help educators find resources for the classroom and to help plan tours with their students.
 * Joan Flasch Artist's Book Collection. With over 5,000 artists books the Joan Flasch is a unique and creative space to vist in person or online.
 * Video Data Bank is a leading resource in the US for video by contemporary artists.


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 * Day One:**
 * Explore //Studio Thinking Habits// through direct experience. Make something using what's at hand.
 * [[image:day1-2.jpg width="300" height="223"]] || [[image:day1-3.jpg width="300" height="223"]] ||
 * [[image:day1-4.jpg width="300" height="221"]] || [[image:day1-5.jpg width="269" height="222"]] ||


 * Key //Studio Habit// term: "Observe"




 * Process: Explore and Make**
 * Art as document of process (drawing: human-scale model movement exercise).
 * [[image:learningthroughmuseums/day1-7.jpg width="302" height="202"]] || [[image:learningthroughmuseums/day1-8.jpg width="302" height="202"]] || [[image:learningthroughmuseums/day1-9.jpg width="302" height="202"]] ||
 * Shape: Framework**
 * Explore through paper: Envision a container for your art work and lessons.
 * [[image:day1-11.jpg width="294" height="201"]] || [[image:day1-12.jpg width="295" height="201"]] ||


 * Day Two:**


 * Imagination Warm up: Shape Objects**
 * [[image:learningthroughmuseums/day2-2.jpg width="275" height="424"]] || [[image:learningthroughmuseums/day2-1.jpg width="315" height="234"]] ||
 * Curriculum Sketches:**
 * Making Meaning, the story as curriculum
 * Create three different written portraits of the object as curriculum sketches
 * [[image:day2-3.jpg width="300" height="223"]] || [[image:day2-4.jpg width="300" height="223"]] ||
 * Studio:**
 * Creation Laboratory, limited prompt, limited materials
 * Create two partner objects
 * [[image:day2-5.jpg width="300" height="223"]] || [[image:day2-6.jpg width="300" height="223"]] || [[image:day2-7.jpg width="288" height="212"]] ||




 * Day Three:**


 * Resources:**
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 * Share Out:**


 * [[image:learningthroughmuseums/day2-11.jpg width="288" height="213"]] || [[image:learningthroughmuseums/day2-12.jpg width="394" height="294"]] ||

Process: Reflection, Community as Resource Parting Gift from Joan:
 * What does Art look like?**
 * [[image:learningthroughmuseums/day3-1.jpg width="323" height="240"]] || [[image:learningthroughmuseums/day3-2.jpg width="323" height="240"]] || [[image:learningthroughmuseums/day3-3.jpg width="323" height="240"]] ||
 * [[image:learningthroughmuseums/day2-14.jpg width="393" height="293"]] || [[image:day2-15.jpg width="394" height="294"]] ||