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Lau, Andrew J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is an ethnography conducted with the Los Angeles-based community arts organization called Machine Project. Operating both a storefront gallery in Echo Park and as a loose association of contemporary artists, performers, curators, and designers, Machine Project seeks to make "rarefied knowledge accessible" through…
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Ethnography, Museums
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Purcell, John – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2012
In this article, the author describes how his first-grade students made their own compositions based on James Rosenquist's collage series in which long shards of faces were painted over a background that appeared to be abstract. The background was made up of enlarged details of things such as flowers, leaves, fire, and water. The students'…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
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Nelson, Karen G. – Journal of Museum Education, 2011
The "You Are Here" digital drawing interactive is one of the most successful interpretive elements in the renovated Oakland Museum of California Gallery of California Art. This interactive grew from considering how visitors could see themselves in the gallery and how visitor awareness of the creative process could be increased. The…
Descriptors: Museums, Arts Centers, Art Activities, Facility Improvement
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Linesch, Debra; Ojeda, Angelica; Fuster, Maria Elena; Moreno, Stephanie; Solis, Guadalupe – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2014
This article describes an expanded case study methodology that was used to explore the value that art therapy processes have in expression and understanding of the complications of immigration and acculturation. Data collected from two art therapy groups of Hispanic/Latino youth and immigrant women at an urban parish were analyzed to develop an…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Acculturation, Immigration, Case Studies
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Jocson, Korina M. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2013
This article explores youth making media across genre practices. The author begins with a discussion of youth media arts, followed by a discussion of remix in the digital era. An exemplary video poem project from the San Francisco Bay Area is described to illustrate the importance of critical solidarity among youth. The multimodal design,…
Descriptors: Youth, Social Networks, Films, Web Sites
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Doukakis, Janis – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2012
When an unlimited amount of free 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) canvas was offered to all of the schools in their community to participate in the city's the Color of Friendship art competition, the author saw a wonderful opportunity for her students at Cedarcreek Elementary. After some thought, the idea of combining poetry with the contest's rich theme…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Elementary School Students, Art Materials
Puffer, Kristine Widmer – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study examines the reactions of veteran artists to some issues associated with the process of creating visual art that can cause fear, fear significant enough to derail many professional artists and cause them to quit making art altogether. Based on the writings of Bayles and Orland and enhanced by J. M. Erikson, this study provides insight…
Descriptors: Artists, Visual Arts, Art Activities, Fear
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Silva, Janelle M.; Langhout, Regina Day – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2016
Empowering settings are important places for people to develop leadership skills in order to enact social change. Yet, due to socio-cultural constructions of childhood in the US, especially constructions around working class and working poor children of Color, they are often not seen as capable or competent change agents, or in need of being in…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Working Class
Shepard, David S.; Brew, Leah – Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2013
Students enter their practicum experience with the assumption that they will learn the skills needed to help clients. However, growth in counseling can be bidirectional; both the client and the student-counselor can benefit. The purpose of this article is to describe a creative arts assignment that helps students express how a client changed them,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Practicums, Counseling Psychology, Counseling Services
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Marshall, Julia; D'Adamo, Kimberley – Art Education, 2011
The artmaking process is increasingly accepted in experimental forms of qualitative ethnographic, narrative, and phenomenological research in the social sciences, psychology, and education. Some artists and art educators are taking idea of using art practice in research a step further and claiming that art practice is research. That is to say,…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, High Schools
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Johnson, Phyllis Scott – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2011
Around Scout Island Education Center, a site used by schools in Fresno County to explore the area's natural environment, a total of 200 cylinder-shaped concrete stools display tiles representing small mammals, flying insects, birds, wildflowers, and more. Twenty sets have been created by elementary, middle, and high-school art students as part of…
Descriptors: Art Education, Ceramics, Art Activities, Elementary Secondary Education
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van der Veen, Jatila – American Educational Research Journal, 2012
The persistent fear of physics by learners motivated the author to take action to increase all students' interest in the subject via a new curriculum for introductory college physics that applies Greene's model of Aesthetic Education to the study of contemporary physics, utilizing symmetry as the mathematical foundation of physics as well as the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Aesthetic Education, Learning Modalities, Physics
Sefton-Green, Julian – MIT Press (BK), 2013
Schools do not define education, and they are not the only institutions in which learning takes place. After-school programs, music lessons, Scouts, summer camps, on-the-job training, and home activities all offer out-of-school educational experiences. In "Learning at Not-School," Julian Sefton-Green explores studies and scholarly…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, After School Education, Educational Research, Informal Education
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Gran, David – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2010
Two classrooms on opposite sides of the world happened to be working on a very similar project at the same time. In both Shanghai, China, and Palm Springs, California, students were learning how to turn their flashlights and other light-emitting objects into paintbrushes. Light painting is a form of long-exposure photography in which the shutter…
Descriptors: Photography, Foreign Countries, Light, Teaching Methods
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McCormick, Jennifer – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
When a language arts curriculum provided students with the opportunity to translate meaning across sign systems (that is, from poetry to dance), numerous benefits were noted. Transmediation, the translation of meaning from one sign system to another, led students to analyze compositional structures and to enhance their use of academic language…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Language Arts, Figurative Language, Poetry
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