Session Title
Teaching The Elusive Skill Set: Concept and Content
Start Date
5-10-2012 8:00 AM
End Date
5-10-2012 9:30 AM
Session Description
The boundaries of what art and design curricula cover expand with the scope of contemporary art. Content and concept are now as important as craft and technique have been traditionally. An emerging challenge for art educators is to teach idea development with the depth, breadth, and comprehensibility that one teaches the craft and technique of specific media. The physical skills associated with making work in a particular material or with a certain technical process seem more concrete and understandable than the cognitive and temporal skills and methods associated with idea development. This differential is likely based on the observability of processes of the hand and the relative invisibility of mental and emotional process. How can we effectively teach students to craft with great facility in this less tangible realm of ideas and creative content?
This panel of presenters will discuss strategies for developing and delivering concept development and visual content communication coursework. How can we teach the more elusive, yet vital, artistic talents of communication through concept, content, and context? The panel will investigate methods for teaching courses with the objective of building the foundational skills of creative concept development and visual content communication in a studio art setting. The panel will offer insight into the following two questions:
1) What things should one consider when developing coursework for teaching rich content development?
2) In a post media centric course format, how can we meaningfully evaluate quantity and quality of communication in student work?
Teaching The Elusive Skill Set: Concept and Content
The boundaries of what art and design curricula cover expand with the scope of contemporary art. Content and concept are now as important as craft and technique have been traditionally. An emerging challenge for art educators is to teach idea development with the depth, breadth, and comprehensibility that one teaches the craft and technique of specific media. The physical skills associated with making work in a particular material or with a certain technical process seem more concrete and understandable than the cognitive and temporal skills and methods associated with idea development. This differential is likely based on the observability of processes of the hand and the relative invisibility of mental and emotional process. How can we effectively teach students to craft with great facility in this less tangible realm of ideas and creative content?
This panel of presenters will discuss strategies for developing and delivering concept development and visual content communication coursework. How can we teach the more elusive, yet vital, artistic talents of communication through concept, content, and context? The panel will investigate methods for teaching courses with the objective of building the foundational skills of creative concept development and visual content communication in a studio art setting. The panel will offer insight into the following two questions:
1) What things should one consider when developing coursework for teaching rich content development?
2) In a post media centric course format, how can we meaningfully evaluate quantity and quality of communication in student work?