STUDY A REVOLUTIONARY model of visual arts Education
"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." ~ Henry Miller
Since 1994, secondary art educators in
New South Wales (NSW) Australia have been using an innovative visual arts curricula that is grounded in the theory and practice of the contemporary art world. NSW students conduct arts-based research that includes looking at works of artists and cultures, analyzing them, and integrating their themes and techniques with their own experiences to create personal bodies of work. Students record this research in visual journals, mixed media diaries, that are collages of collected images, writing, and sketches. Subsequent student art work explores a wide variety of materials and techniques. The NSW curriculum consists of art historical and critical practices as well as studio practices.View student work at: https://artexpress.artsunit.nsw.edu.au/ |
This innovative curriculum revolves
around the Frames: Subjective, Cultural, Structural, and Postmodern, four theoretical lenses used by art educators and students to investigate the relationships between the Conceptual Framework: the artist, the artwork, the world and the audience. The resulting student artwork and critical writing is well-informed, advanced, interdisciplinary cultural study that we believe is a revolutionary, comprehensive model for engaging, 21st Century K-12 Visual Arts classroom practice and curriculum writing in the USA and that has the potential to firmly establish art education in schools as an undisputed necessity. |