Art Teacher Talk Introduction

Art Teacher Talk - What's it all about?  I am fortunate this semester to be teaching an Alternative Sites seminar course for Art Education students at the University of Vermont, in Burlington. In this course the students do field placements in sites throughout the community in order to learn about all that goes on in the arts outside of regular public school art programs. The students are putting in several hours per week at a site or combination of sites. This class blog is one of the assignments, in place of a research paper.  The assignment was as follows: Take an art work or art activity that you saw either in a teaching situation, in a gallery, another art class, or out in the world somewhere. Using this art work or activity as a jumping off point create art work of your own that somehow references the original work or activity. Write about your experiences, and take photos of your work in progress, and or your finished piece. If possible, also take photos of the original art work or activity that was the impetus for the creative exploration. The point of the assignment is to examine the transformation from the original seed or stimulus to the personal creative endeavor and to reflect on this process. I have been a teaching artist for most of my professional career and I am interested in how the teaching of art and the making of art are intertwined, and how each can enhance the other. I am also interested in the teacher narrative.

Thanks for reading. We all look forward to comments.

Jude Bond