Action art (or process art) is about Doing. This course will give ideas and resources to help teachers Due process art well with kids. Review the wide range of art experiences that happen at early care and out-of-school time programs. Evaluate the amount of child agency and engagement in each. Is it about an end product or about the experience? Consider settings, materials, tools, attitudes, and strategies that invite greater experimentation and sensory exploration during art experiences. Transform each day by including joy-filled opportunities to investigate, create, and express using art media and the limitless ideas in a child’s mind. (2 hours)
Gobs of blue, red, and yellow paint crisscrossing a paper in arcs.
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Course Objectives
- Describe developmentally appropriate approaches to art and the continuum from teacher-directed to child-led and from craft product to process/action art.
- Observe children's behaviors and art explorations and suggest strategies to extend and expand the experience and learning through rich opportunities with surfaces, materials, and tools as children pursue with abandon their expression of ideas through art play and experimentation.
- Develop a preliminary action plan to provide and be excited about engaging process art experiences for children in their program.
