CONTEMPORARY ART, CREATIVITY, AND RISK-TAKING

On a sheet of paper, respond to the following prompt:

What is the number one experience, skill, or piece of knowledge you want your students to leave your class with at the end of the year?

On the other side of that same paper, respond to the following prompt:

CREAtiVITY

DEFINE THE WORD

Schlechty Centers 10 Design Qualities

Product Focus

Affirmation
Affiliation Novelty and variety

Choice
Authenticity Content and Substance

Organization of Knowledge
Clear and Compelling Product Standards Protection from Adverse Consequences for Initial Failures

AP Studio Art Scoring Rubric

We cannot envision and manifest new styles of art education without examining and reconsidering art education curriculum as it is currently taught. We must be willing to let go of some of the old familiar projects (and their myriad variations) in order to make room for other sorts of projects and other kinds of art experiences. - Olivia Gude
New School Art Styles: The Project of Art Education

TAKING RISKS
In order for creativity to thrive in a classroom, students must feel safe in taking risks with their artwork.
As art teachers, we owe it to our students to establish a classroom environment that rewards risk-taking and protects our students from adverse consequences for initial failure. Furthermore, as creative people ourselves, we should feel safe taking risks with lessons. Go out on a limb try something new!

TAKING RISKS
In order for creativity to thrive in a classroom, students must feel safe in taking risks with their artwork.
As art teachers, we owe it to our students to establish a classroom environment that rewards risk-taking and protects our students from adverse consequences for initial failure. Furthermore, as creative people ourselves, we should feel safe taking risks with lessons. Go out on a limb try something new!

TAKING RISKS
In order for creativity to thrive in a classroom, students must feel safe in taking risks with their artwork.
As art teachers, we owe it to our students to establish a classroom environment that rewards risk-taking and protects our students from adverse consequences for initial failure. Furthermore, as creative people ourselves, we should feel safe taking risks with lessons. Go out on a limb try something new!

THE PREVAILING NOTION OF AWESOME ART

INFLUENCES: PARENT EXPECTATIONS

I dont know where he gets it I cant even draw a stick figure.

INFLUENCES: ADMIN EXPECTATIONS

INFLUENCES: ART CONTESTS

STUDENT ART vs CONTEMPORARY ART

I want to make art that is important.

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917

COMMON CONTEMPORARY ART HANGUP #1 : TIME

Michael Craig Martin, Oak Tree, 1973

This probably only took five seconds to make!

COMMON CONTEMPORARY ART HANGUP #2 : FAIRNESS

So why cant I just go paint a canvas white and sell it for millions of dollars? Its not fair!

Zeitgeist
[noun]

the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time.

COMMON CONTEMPORARY ART HANGUP #3 : TECHNICAL SKILL

It looks like someone just threw this together. My three year old sister couldve done that!

KEY COMPONENTS OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Embodies historic RELEVANCE

Emphasizes PROCESS Consideration of the SIGNIFIGANCE OF MATERIALS

Banksy JR

Ai Wei Wei Kehinde Wiley

Contemporary art embodies historic RELEVANCE

FOCUS ON RELEVANCE

Contemporary art emphasizes PROCESS

FOCUS ON PROCESS

Vic Muniz

Mark Bradford Sarah Sze

Contemporary art explores the SIGNIFIGANCE OF MATERIALS

FOCUS ON MATERIALS

Ongoing Experiments

MARK BRADFORD-INSPIRED MATERIALS COLLAGE

Process/Idea-Oriented Projects

MAKESHIFT GALLERY

INTERACTIVE POST-IT WALL

SARAH SZE-INSPIRED TEMPORARY INSTALLATIONS