Our Relationship with Information Grows By Asking Questions and Listening to Answers
'Consider Community Concept' in Action ...gathering information on sounds & colors with the objective of observing & exploring relationships.
Report from November 5th:
«SOUND ON» ✨Our Relationship with Information Grows By Asking Questions and Listening to Answers✨
On the morning of November 5th (Election Day), young artists began gathering information on sounds and colors with the objective of observing and exploring relationships. Young artists gathered information by asking questions and listening to answers.
Vocabulary exercised (“life words”):
~ Relationship → the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected.
~ Isolation → the state of being alone.
~ Collective → acting as a group.
~ Composition → the way in which a whole or mixture is made.
Relationships observed/explored::
~ sounds found in our environment.
~ colors of paint interacting with one another.
Questions asked::
On sound:
~ Isolation → What happens when an every day sound like opening a door is isolated? ~ Collective → What happens when we put our different found sounds (doors opening, feet on pavement…) together in a composition? What happens if we add our voices to the composition?
On Color:
~ Isolation → What happens when one big puddle of color stands alone on the page?
~ Collective → What happens if wet painted colors are by wet painted colors -or- new paint is dropped on the page like rain? What happens if I change the composition and add different sizes of paint puddles? …
Methods of considering answers:
~ Isolation → reflection drawing and observation.
~ Collective → critique and conversation.
*Notable moment1 During the processes, one young artist stated, “There’s a logical *exclamation* for this…(is it explanation or exclamation?)”
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‘Consider Community Concept’2When planning how to put our teaching philosophy into practice, we first develop a single-sentence Consider Community Concept (always beginning with the word ‘our’) to direct intention for teaching artists & young artists to infuse real life perspective within the art-making process. To develop a CCC, we finish this sentence: “Young artists consider community by ____.” Example: “Young artists consider community by intentionally promoting dialogue as a part of learning new information.” With the sentence now complete, we develop the CCC: “✨Our relationship with information grows by asking questions and listening to answers.✨”
Young artist Lowe has an ever-broadening vocabulary …love that she’s sorting out ‘exclamation’ & ‘explanation’.. but also both of the words could have worked in this moment!
