I wanted to show in my animation how art expands. I believe art extends beyond the classroom. Art is interdisciplinary and can be used in everything we do. I started with a standard palette that most people symbolize for art. From the palette in the center extends nature, school, limitless imagination, and other classes. While I was creating my animation, I saw myself just building off each idea and drawing. I did not have a set plan creating my animation and rather just had fun exploring new technology. The exploration and fun I experienced on Adobe Animation is something I hope to teach in my future classroom. I hope that my future students will have fun exploring new technology in art and not be afraid to experiment and explore.
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In my future classroom I picture a large classroom with a ton of windows. I want a wall of windows where students can look out into nature and be inspired to create. I picture these windows to be almost like a touch screens where students can click on objects they see outside to learn more or draw directly from what they are observing. Also in my future classroom, each student will be assigned a camera and a computer. This will allow students to document their work and progress as well as, share their art with others. My dream classroom will also have kids out of their desks and on the floor, or standing up, or anywhere they feel comfortable creating art.
I believe I have had three key experiences in my life that have set me on my career path. It all started with my elementary school art teacher. She was strict and liked things done a certain way. She focused on the kids who had a real interest in art. I believe this way of teaching is neither good nor bad, but truly inspired me to push myself in the art classroom. I wanted to be the best in my class. I would work super hard, my eyes were always glued to the project I was working on. This was the first step on the path to me wanting to become an art teacher. Elementary art class not only gave me the first spark of inspiration to become an art teacher, but also gave me ideas of how I would want to run my art classroom in the future.
My second key experience was in high school. Both of my high school art teachers pushed my art and I. My senior year I took AP Studio Art and it was one of the best decisions I have ever made. I had to push myself to crank out art every class. I improved so much my senior year and I truly started to discover who I was as an artist. The last landmark in my art life was last year. I was starting to question myself as an artist. I signed up for oil painting. Oil painting was a medium I had never worked with before. My professor pushed me and told me that I was improving and was talented. That boost in my self-confidence and simple compliment reassured me and my choice to dedicate my future to art and art education. All three of these experiences have inspired ideas about my future classroom. I want to focus on every student no matter their interests, art or not. I want to push every student to work hard and practice to become better artists and learners. Finally, I want to be a teacher that gives my students confidence in their work and themselves.
The influence of my concept is pretty recent. After working with three kids this summer, aged five, six, and nine I was surprised by the change in entertainment since I was a kid. When I was younger and my parents date night babysitter would come and watch my older sister and I, she would always entertain us with arts and crafts. I was always content with that and so was my sister, Kylie. On days when we had nice weather we would take our art outside and that was always better. When we got exhausted with our crafts we would run around the backyard gathering sticks to decorate with googley eyes and glitter glue or leaves that we could put under our paper and trace with colorful crayons. When my sister and I were younger we would live outside in our play set if we could. To go back to the purpose and influence of my concept, the kids I babysit. To entertain the kids was a struggle. The idea of arts and crafts or being outside seemed like the end of world.
My first day on the job, I was prepared with crafts that the kids could do. When I went inside, the day’s agenda was set. I was to make breakfast, pack a lunch, limit the kid’s time on their tablets, and take them to the pool and be back by 4pm. After preparing the kids meals, I told them to get ready for the pool. Each kid broke down and threw a fit. The pool was the last place they wanted to go. They wanted to stay in bed watch Netflix or play on the family tablet that was always fought over. The power of my concept is to not eliminate technology in arts and everyday life but to be reminded of the importance of being outdoors. What I hope to explore in my concept is to find a possible common ground that different generations entertainment can agree and both enjoy. I split my map into the three categories within my concept. Throughout the map, I write down ideas of projects that incorporate some or all the categories within my concept. My idea of a website is shared on my map. My idea was inspired by a website I explored in class, Fembot. Instead of sharing personal stories and marking your location on a google map, my concept would still include users pinning their location but also have visitors of the site share their thoughts, projects, and ideas about the concept of art and technology, art and nature, or even all three.
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AuthorJunior at Penn State studying Art Education.
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