We teach art, but what can we learn by making art? Let’s explore the benefits of personal practice to enhance our lives. Happy teacher = happy students. Session includes hands-on exercises and participant solution generation.

1. Art Lessons:
Personal Practice,
Healing and Joy

2. New Perspectives in Art Education
The goal of this workshop is to create a personal
culture of improvement by empowering
participants with fresh attitudes and mindsets.
Scholarship for arts educators can take many
enjoyable artistic forms and this ongoing learning
is vital for both pedagogical relevance and
enjoyment of life.

3. Art Lessons
What we can learn from art -
encountering and making.

4. Personal Practice
What you create when
no one is looking.
That is, art you make by choice.

5. Healing
Moving towards a chosen
desired state,
whether in mind, body or sprit.

6. Joy
Delight in the present moment,
exhilaration, that feeling of
“everything is possible.”

7. Structure:
Hands-on exercises.
Presentation of ideas.
Pair share and group discussion.
Collaborative generation of ideas to enhance
your repertoire of effective strategies.

8. Please discuss with your partner
fundamental concepts you hope to
teach your students, beyond the
skills of using art tools.

10. It is sometimes easier to
act your way to right thinking,
rather than to think your way
to right acting.

11. Draw a 3 inch square.
For three minutes, keep your
pencil/pen moving continuously
within in the square

12. Please discuss with your partner
any social issues or political causes
that interest you, along the
possibilities for related creative
expression.

13. I invite you to briefly jot down
some experiences you may have
had with art (visual, music,
movies, theater, dance, etc.) that
have shifted your mood.

14. Please discuss in your groups:
Individual artworks that inspire you.
Might you or have you ever “road tested”
assignments that you give to students?