Development Project

Here are links to pdf versions of my Pre K - 12 Development Project. These documents are helpful in creating lesson objectives and rationales.

Pre Kindergarten

Elementary School

Middle School

High School

Jenny Saville and Laurie Lipton

Jane (my art education class partner this semester) and I have been tasked with presenting two contemporary artists together based on a theme. With this task we decided to each look up a few artists on our own and discuss them together at a meeting the other day. Jane brought the painter Jenny Saville to the table and I brought the drawer Laurie Lipton. By looking at artists separately and discussing them together later on we were able to accomplish the task of fitting the artists to a theme. I think our method produced a more rich outcome than possibly deciding on a theme together and then trying to find artists separately to fit the theme. I think in this way we did not limit ourselves or each other as to the type, style, or subject of the artists we chose. I look forward to co-presenting these artists and I am thankful that they both coincidentally share some themes!

Here are a couple of my favorite works by the artists:

Jenny Saville

"Torso 2"

2004

Jenny Saville

"Red Stare Head"

2006-2011

Laurie Lipton

"On"

2008

Laurie Lipton

"Love Bite"

2002

Some Things That Inspire Me

I've been looking at some things lately on my endless quest for inspiration. I figure if I'm going to teach art I should have a meaningfully driven art practice of my own. This is a concept Dr. Beth Thomas has been discussing with two other students and myself lately. I think there is great potential for art educators that use their own practice to inspire what they teach in the classroom. Here are some photos I took of things that have been inspiring me lately:

Jupiter and 3/4 of it's moons

Our moon

Salmon and Salmonids

And fjords

An Advocacy Report

While working on a psychology paper today I stumbled across a very good report that may assist us in advocating art education. It reports the positive correlation between learning the arts and cognition. It is great fuel for the argument that art education is essential for human development. The report addresses how learning the arts influences cognition. It explains the influences of each type of art on the brain but focuses a bit more on music education than the rest. It is definitely worth a look!

This is the pdf: Learning, Arts and the Brain

I found it at: http://www.keepartsinschools.org/Research/index.php.