Practice & Pedagogy: ArtPilots

"Practice and Pedagogy: Art Pilots
Students in this class will have the opportunity
to explore their artmaking practice through
in-class experimentation while gaining a set of
critical skills that lend themselves to teaching.
In this collaborative Art School / CAP class,
participants will gain experience and develop
teaching abilities within an interactive social
practice environment. This hands-on workshop,
taught at a local elementary school, will be
aligned with a seminar module where we will
explore approaches to pedagogy, view artwork, and
discuss readings. Designing projects that
emphasize the importance of play and inventive
thinking, we will activate drawing, color, sound,
collage, writing, object making, and other
experimental practices. The flow of this working
process offers momentum for the CalArts students
to mine the experience as an impetus to their
personal work, regardless of individual
disciplines. Works by artists using strategies of
play and chance / order and chaos, including Helen
Mirra's walking/printmaking practice, Eva Hesse's
drawing process, and Allan Kaprow's performance
work will provide a background for discussion.
This dialogue will be further invigorated with
readings from Hannah Higgins's The Fluxus
Experience, Rosemary Peterson's Why Piaget?, John
Dewey's experience and education, Mignon Nixon's
'Child' drawing on Eva Hesse, and Richard Shiff's
writing on Richard Tuttle's drawing process. This
is a cross-disciplinary class; students from all
métiers are welcome. Prior teaching experience or
visual art background is not necessary. Students
enrolling in this course must be in the Santa
Clarita or greater Los Angeles area.