This is the keynote presentation given by Georgina Valverde at the Art Volunteers in the Classroom Program on November 1, 2010.

1. Jean Dubuffet The Grand Arab (He Only Has Sand), 1947 Children, Art and the Development of Creativity

2. of rhythm is image of image is knowing of knowing there is a construct Charles Olson, ‘ABCs (2)’, in The Collected Poems of Charles Olson

3. Viktor Lowenfeld Creative and Mental Growth Stages of Artistic Development The Scribbling Stage (2 – 4) The Preschematic Stage (4 – 7) The Schematic Stage (7 – 9) The Dawning Realist Stage (9 – 12) The Pseudo-Naturalistic Stage (12 – 14) Adolescent Art (14 – 17)

4. Scribbling (2 – 4) Cy Twombly The First Part of the Return to Parnassus , 1961

5. Random or disordered scribble

6. Controlled scribble

7. Naming of scribble

8. Consuelo, age 4, Cicero/Berwyn

9. Preschematic Drawing (4 – 6) Joan Miró The Policeman , 1925

11. From kinesthetic to imaginative thought

12. Not all scribbles are created equal

14. Michael Chesworth, Rainy Day Dream

15. Anyel, age 4, Cicero/Berwyn

16. Jesus, age 4, Cicero/Berwyn

17. Male, age 3 Slovenia

20. Female, age 3, Japan

21. Schematic (7 – 9) Henri Matisse Apples , 1916

22. Girl, age 6 ½ I am Standing in my Backyard

23. Boy, age 4, Brazil The Family Stroll

28. Roger Brown Museum without Ceiling, 1976 “ The art museum is one of the places that give us the highest idea of man .” André Malraux

29. Dawning of Realism Paul Klee, age 10 The Stork’s Nest on the House, 1889

31. Female, age 11 Standing in the Rain

33. Male, age 11 A Visit to the DIA

34. Male, age 12

35. Mapping with preschoolers, Cicero/Berwyn