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Building Relationships: Art Making And Empty Bowls, Susan R. Whiteland
Building Relationships: Art Making And Empty Bowls, Susan R. Whiteland
International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education
How can collaborative art making foster relationship building for those involved? A Problem Based Learning project that investigated food insecurity and the creation of clay soup bowls provided an answer for a number of students, and various community members. This article follows the story of a university professor’s involvement with her students in a partnership with a local intermediate school when they pursued an initiative to include art in their STEAM based curriculum dedicated to meeting a local need. Older adults, elementary students, and a variety of other interested individuals joined the effort and demonstrated how art can build relationships.
Artists As Mentors: A Mid-Career Art Educator Rekindles Her Artist Self, Liz Langdon
Artists As Mentors: A Mid-Career Art Educator Rekindles Her Artist Self, Liz Langdon
International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education
A mentoring relationship between a mid-career art educator and a late-stage artist, is facilitated through the art educator's action research and life story narrative which is key in learning and sharing the artist’s philosophy. The author uses narrative inquiry and Deleuze's sense and event to represent the affective knowing of IG learning and demonstrates psychosocial benefits of mentoring.