More Than A Bag Of Tricks

With the experience of art-making, people can reflect on the finished art products and art processes which can help increase insight, awareness of self and develop

While art does have its advantages, it will not solve everyone’s problems. It is true that not everyone enjoys the thrill of creating a beautiful masterpiece because they might have been forced to take that class. However, those who love these classes show that there is a relationship between creativity and

“After a certain high level of technical skill achieved, science and arts tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientist are artist as well” (Albert Einstein). In this advanced modern tech-world mostly people are dependent on science and technology, but arts also play an important role in education. Art creates balanced thinking and better imagination which helps humans to be successful in their career. Yo-Yo Ma intensely informs about important role of arts in modern education society throughout his essay Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and education. Ma illustrates that arts should be also part of education, because it improve students to filter their imagination through disciplined knowledge. Liberal arts should be equal to science and technology because it creates new idea, and in this modern world people should think critical than divergent in their lives. Empathy teaches students to understand and simplify the complicated life. Collaboration include discussion amongst people or group to make things effortless. Moreover liberal arts itself is beauty such as performing arts, it values the beauty of imagination in modern society by art and sculpture.

By educating students any form of art, can open up new connections to imaginative thinking. The arts could even lead students to find new ways of studying that could benefit their other classes. Arts helps in finding different ways into processing ideas, not just analyzing an idea, but also taking into consideration of the more human side to things: emotion. With a student being more emotionally prepared to take on any task, it helps a student judge what is best for themselves in their routine of study. In “Necessary Edges” Yo-Yo Ma says how “we are also aware that wise and balanced judgment results from integrating the critical and empathetic, taking emotions as well as reason into account” (258). If the education system incorporates arts into the system then students could find means as to help relax from higher levels of thinking, as a means to release stress and to positively believe that they are striving to be their best. Wood supports the idea of incorporating art into education because with the incorporation of more technology placed into classes then it becomes “exhausting: a continuous period of forced engagement, with no relief in the form of time when my attention could flag or I could doodle in a notebook undetected

Teachers are in a profession that requires a lifelong approach to learning; the direction of this unit is at exploring one's own capabilities, and to start scaffolding our own learning. Knowing what one can do, can direct one to further improvements (Dinham, 2014, pp. 62-63). This unit is a great start to personal learning of the arts. There is evidence of improvement of learning and have responded to the above in an appropriate way with in text references, in a creative thinking self-expression meaning making of ideas.

They will analyze and describe this in the verbal and written communication. They will be able to continue the classroom experience in their own lives through discussions of the value of art that they will share with their families, friends and other acquaintances.

For the entirety of the fall semester, I took on a project to create a three-page layout for a fictional campaign in National Geographic magazine about endangered species. The goal was to create different content for my portfolio, challenging my skills in photography and photo-manipulation. I transformed people into animals and used gel lighting and Photoshop to create my artwork (see Appendix A figure 1 & 2). At the end of the semester, I reviewed my completed pieces and two theorists best fit my creative process, Julie Burstein, and Teresa Amabile. Julie Burstein discusses the best way to foster creativity is by ‘letting go’ she outlines this in four lessons (Campbell and Dubois, “Artist Best practices” 25). These lessons include experiences, challenges, limitations and loss (Campbell and Dubois, “Artist Best practices” 25). While Teresa Amabile discusses how the theory of creativity is fostered through her componential model of creativity (Campbell and Dubois, “On theories of” 14). These include domain-relevant skills, creative thinking skills and motivation (Campbell and Dubois, “On theories of” 14). Both of these theorists go hand in hand providing me with the framework for my best work. This essay will discuss how Amabile’s theory for intrinsic motivation and Burstein’s lesson of experience and loss, align in my creative process to be conducive to my work.

Why shouldn’t children be able to express themselves, any more than learn the scientific method? Another great challenge is presented because art is a subjective field. Unlike science, where new improvements are being seen every day in medicine and technology, art may not produce such big improvements to the world as a whole. As human beings with free will, when it comes to the arts, we all are going to have different opinions. In Art & Fear, Bayard and Orland remind the artist that what matters to us is the process of creating our artwork, however hard that may be.

The article, “ArtBreak group counseling for children: Framework, practice points, and results,” focused on ArtBreak and its ability to possibly lower elementary students stress levels as well as support their social/emotional development. The previous research supports that choice based art studios have been connected to the mental health field with regards to reducing stress, but there is little research that investigates art’s effects in the school environment. The researches purpose that ArtBreak will help relax the students as well as help develop their social/emotional skills. The researchers integrated three theoretical influences in order to form the framework for Artbreak. The authors describe the group process as one of the influences.

As boundaries between art forms become more seamless and permeable and as new technology places production within reach of an increasingly sophisticated audience, participation art gains more acceptance. Since participatory arts are incomplete without participation from the audience, more studies must be undertaken to understand the needs of the audience as they are purely voluntary partners and are able to make or break the project. To cater to different groups, the project shall not be designed to be excessively bureaucratic. It must able to communicate and interact within a broad and diversified audience about issues directly relevant to their life. Moving forward, the state of art at this stage is best summed up in the words of Allan

“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.

The arts are a fundamental element of ones human condition as it provides a medium for the freedom of self-expression such as thoughts, ideas, beliefs and culture. There is a natural necessity to create as it shares an insight into identity and culture (Wright, 2003). Through implementing arts into early childhood, it can foster and support a child’s mean making, self-expression and holistic development (Ministry of Education, 1996). The arts play an immense role in a child’s holistic development as it supports the links between body, cognition, spirit and culture. It also has multiple benefits to a child’s visual, spatial, aural and bodily-kinaesthetic modes of learning or multimodal leaning (Wright, 2003). A children who contributes participates and views art, experience and demonstrate imagination, creativity, pride and pleasure. Through this, children are able to record their thoughts and feelings without verbally communicating. In all environments and cultures, there is a vast amount of visual arts. These arts can be

It will also be used for the teacher to determine how often art appreciation is demonstrated in her students’ interest, hobbies, and choices. Although the survey is a form for the students rate themselves on, it will bring about an awareness of art related habits, whether the students are engaging in them or not. The survey presents art related activities for the students to consider. The objective is for demonstration of knowledge and application of art appreciation to improve among the seventh grade art students. The survey aids in this endeavor as it will not only provide some insight as to how often the students are proving their understanding of the value of art, but it will also support the teacher in the execution of her lessons for increasing their understanding. The teacher will also be able to reflect upon the information and use it to judge whether the student’s art interest have increased or

It is important for children to be able to practise and experiment with different techniques and materials as it helps children to develop control, confidence and technique ; pupils should be taught to ‘improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials’ (DfE, 2013, p 177).

Some people look at art as something trivial, a thing people do because they are too lazy to have a professional occupation, but to others, art engulfs their whole world, gives life meaning, and they feel as if talent is only gained by hard work. With these opinions, there can be a debate on including art in education, and whether or not the education system should be putting more of an emphasis on teaching children art. Specifically visual art, although there are valid arguments on why other spectrums of the arts should also be taught in school.