Art Reflection

As a young child, I often transformed my grandma's dwelling into my own personal canvas. Fueled by morning cartoons, I would concoct detailed illustrations of the oddities in my imagination and intricate pictures of my family and surrounding. It was evident I had been blessed. I was never discouraged from my routine doodling either, just encouraged to channel that creativity on to anything but our walls. When I started public schooling some years later I was introduced to the scope of what art really was. Painting, drawing, photography-It was a world unknown to me then. The way we experimented with every medium early on was perfect for my inquisitive nature. For years I invested in what I now consider to be my craft, with the guidance of numerous

Art was a way for students to express their inner thoughts and views creatively. For senior Lauren Mabe art was a way to express herself in various ways. Students’ artwork was inspiring to many and held significant meaning. “Art is a form of personal expression. It teaches everyone how to observe life in every detail. It teaches people how to develop concepts and think more deeply about a topic. As an artist, art creates a form of pride- there is nothing better than stepping back from something you have created and saying ‘Wow, I actually did that!’ The only thing better than that feeling is when someone pays you for it,” said Ms. Wilson.

During the short six weeks of Art Therapy class I was surprised on all the positive things I learned in such short period of time. We covered different modalities in Art therapy which encouraged participants to be creative and make use of their imagination. For this intermodal Art experience paper I created a visual art poster that expressed my current feelings and emotions. I began to look for images that expressed my personal emotional state; I was surprised with what emerged from my visual art poster. It illustrated visual images of stress on one side to images of success on the opposite side. There was so much nonverbal expression in one piece of visual art, as it spoke for itself without words. As I contemplated the poster and its messages, I moved to a second modality, in response to the visual art poster I wrote a poem in response to the Art piece. The poem came about naturally; my feelings flowed into words which made me feel good about the visual art poster that I had created. As an inexperienced poetry writer I felt that my poem was not as good as an experienced poetry writer. However I still tried it, as I began to write I began to think of what message the visual art poster conveyed to me, including what emotions it provoked. Several questions came to mind, what were the visual images on the poster saying about me? And why did I create such piece? Author Malchiodi (2007) notes that “First, art expression is thought to be a form of visual language through which

As the only child, of my mother, I often faced the problem of not having someone to play with forcing more creativity. I often did various arts and crafts projects, but I found that I enjoyed drawing the most. With each drawing I become completely engrossed partially because it is a self-taught skill that requires focus, but also because I must be patient with myself as I work towards what I envision and learn new techniques. The Art of Drawing is a skill that I can continuously develop and perfect. The patience that my artwork teaches goes beyond the work itself. It demonstrates the importance of accepting my weaknesses and working towards bettering them. I am able to properly release the struggles I encounter and not be consumed because of my artwork. Creating my drawings is more than expression, but also self-discovery because I can be more honest with myself, embracing who I am and what I feel. However, from time to time I do encounter “artist block” and the exhibitions held at the museum of fine arts at Florida State University could provide inspiration much like my environment here at Spelman

It was my freshman year of high school when I took Drawing A; I quickly learned that I had a skill that I had previously ignored and began embracing it. Sophomore year, though, was when I truly started using my art. It was during this year that I received a 4 on my AP-Studio Art portfolio, and won four awards at Scholastic Art and Writing in photography. Art gave me a feeling of accomplishment that I didn’t usually get in the rest of my academics, so I always tried my

“The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north，” said by Romain Rolland. If people could give an accurate concept of art , then it was better to say that art gave the artist a firm goal and motivation. At a young age, I did not have a deep understanding of art. In my memory, drawing a few pictures of comic and having art classes in my elementary school in China that was the closest way to learn art. Although I liked painting, I did not choose it as my major in my high school and university without the support of my family. However, fortunately I had a good chance to live and study in New York with my family in the winter of 2014. If I could not learn painting that was a kind of regret in the first two decades of my life, then I might have the opportunity to make up for this regret in after years. I was very grateful to the art to bring my enthusiasm, so I could firmly choose the art design as a new professional in QCC and have more opportunities to learn about art.

I have been an avid student of art since my freshman year of high school, and have developing

Art, I was planning on discussing this with you this week. With you out tending to far more important issues, I am going to include Janene in the discussion right away as this is an issue that will likely need to be discussed at her level or above and we should get the discussion started sooner rather than later.

Before you begin organizing your ideas (outline, draft, etc.), take stock of what you know and what you need to find out.

The first art piece from David Call’s collection that caught my attention is the Resistance. My dream career is to become a dentist so I was immediately drawn to the use mouth models in this piece. In dentistry, mouth models are generally used to help explain dental procedures to patients or as teaching tools to help kids learn how to brush their teeth. However, in the Resistance, the mouth models represent oralism in a particularly oppressive and aggravating way, as they are phrased in the description as “wind-up oral chattering teeth toy”. I believe learning is one of those things that vary from person to person. Auditory, visual, verbal, and kinesthetic are many of the few learning styles that are commonly known today. The utmost priority in teaching is being able to present information in a way that accommodates for all the different learning styles and not just one particular style. My preferred method of learning is a combination of visual and kinesthetic. Throughout my academic career, I was very lucky to have an opportunity to learn visually and kinesthetically, but nevertheless, I also have experienced forced learning style assimilation.

For project two I decided to attend the Norton Simon Museum. Some time ago I had seen a friend share several pictures through social media, it consisted of a beautiful garden and distinct art work. After going back and forth in conversation she informed me it was a museum located in Pasadena. At the time I never took the initiative to go despite how intrigued I was through simple pictures however, I moved from Pomona to Pasadena and decided since we had the project coming up it was the perfect occasion to attend. My decision to attended was driven by curiosity of what my city has to offer. In a school field trip, I had the opportunity to attend the Getty Center although it was so long ago that I cannot remember much. I do not have any expectations since I really do not have anything to compare it with, however I do expect to hopefully be able to identify genres of art and maybe even classify around what periods the art belongs to.

For my art reflection, I visited the Detroit Institute of Arts on November 9, 2017. I wanted to learn more about the pieces that were related to religion. I knew I would be intrigued because when we think of the bible or hear storied about God, we often create pictures in our head. Attending the DIA would expand my views of how I perceive the things that I hear. I decided to do my paper on the Temptation of St. Anthony (17th century) and The Miraculous Draught of Fishes. While these works were beautiful, their story was even more amazing.

Since the beginning, advocates of educational approaches have continually argued about the importance and/or benefit of a ‘specific’ approach to the type of education our students are receiving and the progression of the education system in general. Recently, activists have promoted a child-centered approach to education, claiming that students learn best when ideas and disciplines are integrated to meet their physical, emotional, social, and cognitive needs. An example of a child-centered approach that has been gaining attention lately, as a way to develop students who are capable of functioning in our ever-changing world, is the incorporation of STEAM. By fusing the arts with STEM, STEAM practices make content and learning relevant to students, through the provision of diverse ways to access content and express their understanding. Incorporating the arts cultivates student investment in learning, promotes ownership of the content, and stimulates deep learning by increasing engagement of the whole child and supporting collaborative learning, creativity, and problem-solving. While there are many places that have begun implementing programs that incorporate STEAM, this paper will focus on just a few examples: the “Start with a Story” project in Chicago, IL, the partnership between Nord Anglia Education and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Smithsonian Learning Lab, and the Skokie Public Library’s “All Things STEAM” program.

I walked into this class having the mindset that this class was going to focus on how to incorporate drawing and painting into the classroom. I was apprehensive about having to take a class on how to integrate art across content areas. Reflecting on the course, art has become to mean much more to than visual arts. Art can mean writing poems like the where I am from poems, incorporating movement for the kinesthetic learners and incorporating singing. This course opened up my eyes on how movement can be used in the classroom to enhance learning, how sounds can add into the learning process to make the learning fun, and how teaching with visuals can make the learning more meaningful.

Art comes in many different styles and shapes; no one can choose art that will be appealing to you. After reading chapters four and five I believe there were a lot of positive outcomes. It seems as if art has been used as a major tool for communication not only during the twentieth century but still till this day. The artists that were talked about in this chapter have definitely impacted art and have become legacies because of it. These artists have influenced other aspects of art and culture and even other artists. By reading these two chapters I have learned that art is anything and is everywhere. I believe contemporary art cannot be defined to one definition because art is more than that. I have also noticed that this artist put a lot of their emotions into their art which I find to be very interesting.