Art and Wellness: The Importance of art for Aboriginal Peoples’ health and healing
I am a strong believer that viewing and creating art can lift one’s spirits and act as an outlet for expressing emotions (both positive and negative), fear and pain. The saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words” can be upgraded to “art is more valuable than words”. Art can be created in infinite ways, and the aboriginal community have encorporated many of these ways into their culture and way of life. The creative process can be theraputic at every point of the process as it effects the artists during creation, seeing the response the the work as well as creating an impact on those who experience the piece. Art can inspire individual growth as well as community growth which will only strengthen the community.
QEP: Visual Arts
My favourite part of the expectations for visual arts in the QEP is that visual arts is always viewed as a process rater than simply learning facts/ information. Art isn’t a stagnant process, it must develop and be reflected on as the process occurs. Unlike in math where 1 + 1 is always equal to 2, art has endless possibilities and it is up to us as teachers to inspire that kind of thinking in the art classroom. In all of the Visual Art competencies, there is one constant; “to share his/her creative experience”. This is the most important part of art, not only does it affect the artist but it has the power to experience the world around them. Sharing is inspiring and who doesn’t want to live in an inspired world?
Cross Curricular Competencies and Broad Areas of Learning
Subject area’s focus on very specific apsects that need to be taught in individual classes. However, it is extremely important to not only learn material in the context of subjects but to also look at the bigger picture. Students go to school to learn the basics but also how to be successful in the real world after school. If students are not able to use what they are learning in the classroom and apply it to real world situations, as teachers we are uneffective. The broad areas of learning and the cross curricular competencies create a space for teachers to teach outides of the requesites of individual subject areas.
I am a strong believer that viewing and creating art can lift one’s spirits and act as an outlet for expressing emotions (both positive and negative), fear and pain. The saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words” can be upgraded to “art is more valuable than words”. Art can be created in infinite ways, and the aboriginal community have encorporated many of these ways into their culture and way of life. The creative process can be theraputic at every point of the process as it effects the artists during creation, seeing the response the the work as well as creating an impact on those who experience the piece. Art can inspire individual growth as well as community growth which will only strengthen the community.
QEP: Visual Arts
My favourite part of the expectations for visual arts in the QEP is that visual arts is always viewed as a process rater than simply learning facts/ information. Art isn’t a stagnant process, it must develop and be reflected on as the process occurs. Unlike in math where 1 + 1 is always equal to 2, art has endless possibilities and it is up to us as teachers to inspire that kind of thinking in the art classroom. In all of the Visual Art competencies, there is one constant; “to share his/her creative experience”. This is the most important part of art, not only does it affect the artist but it has the power to experience the world around them. Sharing is inspiring and who doesn’t want to live in an inspired world?
Cross Curricular Competencies and Broad Areas of Learning
Subject area’s focus on very specific apsects that need to be taught in individual classes. However, it is extremely important to not only learn material in the context of subjects but to also look at the bigger picture. Students go to school to learn the basics but also how to be successful in the real world after school. If students are not able to use what they are learning in the classroom and apply it to real world situations, as teachers we are uneffective. The broad areas of learning and the cross curricular competencies create a space for teachers to teach outides of the requesites of individual subject areas.