Making your Life as an Artist by Andrew Simonet"You already have the skills you need to build a beautiful, sustainable life."
"Earning money from your work feels great, but it doesn't make you a real artist... Nothing makes you a real artist except your devotion to making." "Let's focus on our skills and what we have to offer, instead of obsessing over our needs and what we lack." "Regardless of how hard one tried to create that distance through self-conscious reflection, one is always departing from that same unknown abyss - the window of experience that can only look out but never in. And so we are tempted to disbelieve the face exists because we can never rip out our eyes and look upon it as a scientific object; or maybe we are simply frightened that behind the veiled abyss our consciousness departs from rests a Face not wholly our own. A Face untamable..." Education for Socially Engaged Art by Pablo Helguera
Relational Aesthetics by Nicolas BourriaudThe Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde"It is the assumption of this book that a work of art is a gift, not a commodity. Or, to state the modern case with more precision, that works of art exist simultaneously in two "economics," a market economy and a gift economy. Only one of these is essential, however: a work of art can survive without the market, but where there is no gift there is no art."
The Good Work Project by The Good Project, Harvard Graduate School of Education: Project Zero"Good work is work that is excellent in quality, work that is ethical in term of considering the impact of the work on others, and work that is engaging, or personally meaningful, for the individual worker.
Understanding Good Work The learning goals for participants are:
Hang out Mess around Geek out - A Guidebook by Yollocalli Open Studio produced with the cooperation of Hive Learning Network & The National Museum of Mexican Art. "HOMAGO is a theory grounded in exploratory learning. The theory was originally developed to explain how teens interact with new media, it has grown to encompass informal learning experiences where participants hang out, mess around and geek out."
Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education by David Perkins Chapter 6: Learn from the Team Every once in awhile our Education team at the Philbrook Museum of Art decides to read either a chapter or article together about a topic relevant to our line of work. After reading the material we meet for a hour (or more) and discus what we read and talk about how it applies to our work as an educator and as a staff member. Interested in group learning versus individual learning we decided to read chapter six of David Perkins's book called Learn from the Team.
Educator Dr. Fred Burton came to the Philbrook Museum of Art in Ocotber 2014 and presented ways of encouraging thoughtful thinking and learning in the classroom and museums to Tulsa public school teachers and museum docents. Though his talk was full with rich helpful resources, studies, and personal stories the two techniques that impacted me the most were the frameworks for thinking routines through exploring artwork called See/ Think/ Wonder and What Makes You Say That?.
See/ Think/ Wonder established from Artful Think Program, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education
What Makes You Say That? established from Artful Think Program, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Both of these thinking routines prompt the art viewer to consider their thoughts through first visual interpretation and then cognitive translation of what they are seeing. By asking "what makes you say that?" the educator is encouraging the thinker to evaluate how they came to their first response and hopefully spark a richer answer by asking "what do you wonder about?" Asking what the person is wondering invites them to draw from their experiences and learned knowledge to add a deeper understanding of the art they are considering. |
AuthorLaura Voth is the program manager and developer of The Collective. ArchivesCategories |