It is my belief that the study and participation in art making plays an essential role in education. It further gives people young and old the opportunity to participate and be engaged in their community. I see the Academy of Art, Art Education Graduate program as a way for me to invest in some of my strongest skills and my most authentic self to bring art education to my community.
1. What is your understanding or definition of “art education?”
Art education can be defined as the craft of teaching the visual arts. While the worlds meaningful art disciplines are plentiful, I understand the study of art education focuses primarily on the visual arts. The visual arts generally refer to drawing, painting, sculpture, photography. For me this would include filmography including animation.
Education itself is a rather broad topic with many areas of study especially as the rapid expansion of media technology is increasingly being used to serve education. Art Education, with it’s focus on the visual arts, gives students a chance to explore an artistic approach to many things including history, culture, and the process of “making” including problem solving and perception just to touch on a few important areas of understanding and development.
2. Why are you interested in pursuing this graduate degree?
I believe the study of art plays an essential role in education for children and for adults pursuing lifelong learning. The Art Education Graduate program offers me the opportunity to apply my belief directly with the aim of gaining the skills and confidence I need to bring art making into a museum or community center environments as an educator.
The arts have always been a source of self confidence in my own life and it is my desire in pursuing this Art Education degree to help bring that confidence to others.
3. What kind of experience do you have that you feel prepares you to be an art educator?
My graduate studies were in Educational Technology. This area of study focused on curriculum development, primarily in a corporate training setting. At that time I was working in a science museum where I used my studies to contribute to the museum exhibits and programs. I helped to design and implement a program of volunteer guides to the museum along with corresponding materials. These were often very simple yet fascinating demonstrations that helped feed my desire to engage young people with the study of art.
More recently I have been involved in promoting math and science materials and I’m excited to see new cross discipline curriculum that increasingly includes art making.
As an artist I have long been an adult learner picking up most of my basic knowledge from adult education classes. This includes basic drawing and shading for design, some figure drawing, plein air watercolor and studio oil and acrylic painting.
My hope is to consolidate and build on the knowledge I've gained over the years in a way that will allow me to help others with these skills.
1. What is your understanding or definition of “art education?”
Art education can be defined as the craft of teaching the visual arts. While the worlds meaningful art disciplines are plentiful, I understand the study of art education focuses primarily on the visual arts. The visual arts generally refer to drawing, painting, sculpture, photography. For me this would include filmography including animation.
Education itself is a rather broad topic with many areas of study especially as the rapid expansion of media technology is increasingly being used to serve education. Art Education, with it’s focus on the visual arts, gives students a chance to explore an artistic approach to many things including history, culture, and the process of “making” including problem solving and perception just to touch on a few important areas of understanding and development.
2. Why are you interested in pursuing this graduate degree?
I believe the study of art plays an essential role in education for children and for adults pursuing lifelong learning. The Art Education Graduate program offers me the opportunity to apply my belief directly with the aim of gaining the skills and confidence I need to bring art making into a museum or community center environments as an educator.
The arts have always been a source of self confidence in my own life and it is my desire in pursuing this Art Education degree to help bring that confidence to others.
3. What kind of experience do you have that you feel prepares you to be an art educator?
My graduate studies were in Educational Technology. This area of study focused on curriculum development, primarily in a corporate training setting. At that time I was working in a science museum where I used my studies to contribute to the museum exhibits and programs. I helped to design and implement a program of volunteer guides to the museum along with corresponding materials. These were often very simple yet fascinating demonstrations that helped feed my desire to engage young people with the study of art.
More recently I have been involved in promoting math and science materials and I’m excited to see new cross discipline curriculum that increasingly includes art making.
As an artist I have long been an adult learner picking up most of my basic knowledge from adult education classes. This includes basic drawing and shading for design, some figure drawing, plein air watercolor and studio oil and acrylic painting.
My hope is to consolidate and build on the knowledge I've gained over the years in a way that will allow me to help others with these skills.