PROCESSES AND STRUCTURES
PROCESSES and STRUCTURES Ideas for teaching art come
from several different sources. Some come from direct observation of children and adolescents as they move about and make meaning from the flux of their everyday experiences. Other ideas come from our understanding of the forces and outcomes that shape both historical and contemporary art practice, while others come directly out of responses to the different and divergent materials with which we make art. Obviously, all three sources intertwine in myriad ways as the processes of practice and appraisal play themselves out in individual lives and experiences. Our concern in this course will be to highlight and investigate the ways in which ideas for art and about art emerge from our experiences with concrete materials and the different directions such ideas may lead us in, and the different possibilities for teaching they suggest. This will involve a critical re-examination of your own experiences of working with materials, calling to the fore responses that are both embodied and embedded within the repertoire of your own knowledge. The journey of learning in this course will follow a pattern of serious play, investigation, and interpretation of how we give meaning to our experiences and the exploration of new and fresh possibilities for art making and teaching. Participants are requested to be open to new challenges since outcomes will only be as good/ interesting as the thoughtful and imaginative processes that inform them. An important aspect of the course will be reaching out for resources and inspiration to cultures other than our own.
Teachers College in New York, New York Engage with some of the most renowned and exciting practitioners, philosophers, psychologists, educators and researchers in the arts, cultural studies, and humanities anywhere in the world. Program: • Five degree programs: MA, MA with Teachers Certification, Ed.M., Ed.D., and the Ed.D in the College Teaching of Art • Specializations in: Museum Education, Community Arts, Studio Practice and Leadership • A summer intensive MA • International experiences overseas Opportunities for… • Serious scholarship and intellectual debate • Art practice and research • Individually designed independent study projects • Engagement with schools in diverse neighborhoods • Internships in museums • Professional employment in arts venues • Macy Gallery Art Exhibitions • Exciting conversations across cultures We are… A community of faculty and students: artists, teachers, museum educators, art historians, thinkers, movers and doers who come together to address critical issues of our time.
Judith M. Burton, Director 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027 Tel: (212) 678-3360 • www.tc.edu/a%26ah/ArtEd