Reference no: EM133684999

CREATIVE WORKS - ASSESSMENT

Overview
Creative art exploration: Document your process of creatively playing with and experimenting with one material.

Learning outcome 1: Articulate and explore the many and varied languages of human expression through personal, social and philosophical perspectives

ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTION:

Throughout Sessions 1 - 3 we have used the text Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood to guide our material inquiries and help us understand materials from a conceptual viewpoint.

This task is a material inquiry. The goal of the task is to explore one material and document your process. The submission will consist of a series of images and writing showing the process and your thinking while doing it. This work must be informed by the set reading.

ARTISTIC LANGUAGE

Read the introductory chapter and the material inquiry chapters 2-5 of Pacini-Ketchabaw Encounters with Materials. Look at the Material Inquiry document in Session 1.
Choose one material and the chapter on it in the Encounters with Materials book.
Closely read the chapter for the material you have chosen, making notes and reflecting as you read.

Select one other reading from the unit (either from eReserve or from within sessions 1 - 3) to support your discussion of your artistic process and how it relates to communication and expression.

MATERIAL
Get your hands on the material.
Clay - use actual clay, not playdough, not modelling clay. Use something as close to 'earth' as you can. Paint - any kind of paint is fine, even paint made from materials around your kitchen or home. Charcoal - you can buy artist's charcoal, or use charcoal from a fire
Paper - explore the different kinds of paper available, there are more than you'd think!

INQUIRY
Play with the material See what it can do. Use the Material Inquiry Document (from Session 1) to guide your thinking and provoke your exploration. Try to approach the material without an outcome or product in mind.
Use the ideas from the readings and let them influence what you do and think.
Document your playing and thinking as you go. You can take photographs or video. Draw. Write. Record. Collect rich documentation of your inquiry - both the physical exploration and your thoughts.
Consider personal, social and philosophical perspectives about the material and your experience of it and how you can communicate with and through the material.

FINAL DOCUMENTATION
Refine your documentation. Include the best parts of your play and exploration and connect what you are doing, thinking and feeling to ideas in the readings. Make clear links, referenced correctly with in-text citations, to the readings.

Choose a program/application to present your written and visual documentation. This could be photos on a Word Doc, PowerPoint, a Padlet, a video, an audio recording or a combination of these - there are many possibilities.

All sources should be referenced correctly, using APA7 CS, with in-text citations throughout the documentation and the artist statement. Include a Reference List at the end.

TIPS

• Use the tips in Session 3 in the article about Process-Focussed art
• Do not include how you followed step-by-step instructions to make something
• Do not approach the material with an end-product in mind, just play and experiment first!
• Make frequent connections back to the associated concept in Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood Education, and your other chosen reading. For example, if you are working with clay - how are you thinking about the concept of ecologies? How is clay provoking your thinking about communication and expression? How are you connecting to clay personally, socially, philosophically.