Blog #2 - Gude - New School Art Styles Article

In the article, Olivia Gude makes a strong case against that of Khami by saying that the old school art styles are beginning to prove to be ineffective. Gude makes reference to Effland, a researcher that, over 40 years ago, made the argument that art education in schools was NOT cohesive with the art that was being created in High Schools.

Gude has adopted these principles, and has taken them to a new height by integrating a set of standards that are making solid ground in the art education profession.

Gude challenges us as art educators to reexamine our curriculum and decipher whether it is affluent with the use of discipline-centered inquiry, construction of knowledge, and making a connection beyond school.  She has invoked a set of Values in which we shall investigate.

Engaging in authentic artistic processes over making facsimiles is described by focusing on the artist's making process vs. the final product.  In other words, to indulge in the meaning of artmaking.

Utilizing skills, forms, and vocabulary in authentic contexts over de-contextualized exercises and recipes.  Do this by teaching vocabulary within rule bound projects and enhancing creativity by designing open ended projects that produce unexpected results.

Investigating over symbolizing.  This is accomplished by encouraging students to find out something new, not by making them envision what is already known and accepted.  Make them explore new subject matter in efforts to have them students learn something new about the subject matter.

Contemporary practices of a medium over a curriculum that merely recapitulates the history of the medium - this suggest that we borrow from previous meanings in efforts to use while making meaning of the new processes.  We do this by using historical, cutlural and aesthetic practices.

For Class.....

Blurring the boundaries between art and life according to Gude says that students whom accept the idea that art and artful/design thinking can be a part of their daily lives understand that art cannot just blur a boundary but can transform the way in which they experience the world…

To conclude, the article urges art educators to use these recipes to create new knowledge by using artistic methodologies to experience the world in fresh ways.