How Will I Teach?
A Collection of Gatherings
- "Becoming an artist" is NOT becoming a "professional" artist alone.
- THUS: all my students are artists. (Am I treating them as artists? Do I treat their work/opinions/input seriously? Am I invested in what they make?)
- Learning "non-art related" skills happens best "when one actually makes art"
- THUS: my job is to enable actual creation of actual art.
- I can do this by asking on a daily basis (maybe on a poster where I will see it everyday or through out the day in the classroom:
- Would I want to do this project?
- Is their "mis-behavior" getting in the way of the art making?
- Are the "rules" relevant to making art?
- Does the space encourage art making?
- Do I treat and talk about their work as art or just assignments?
- Do I encourage discipline integration as the natural participator it is?
- Am I introducing and exposing my students to a generous variety of exemplars?
- Does the work all look the same?
- Am I in the way?
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