The document provides guidelines for setting up and running an art studio classroom. It discusses establishing a dedicated space with adequate materials and storage. It emphasizes exploring art mediums through experimentation with techniques and building comfort and skill over time. The teacher's role is to encourage students, ask questions, and gently coach without being overbearing. Documentation of the creative process and displaying the art are important for sharing experiences and assessing progress.

1. General Guidelines for Studio
Explorations
Emmanuelle Cross
Eliza Ely
Vanessa Linkchorst
Brian Valentine
Steph Yetter

2. Learning the Language of Art
• We explore the physical
qualities of a particular
medium
• We experiment with
tools and techniques
• We finally become
COMFORTABLE with the
new art medium
• We then claim the
language of art as our
own

3. The Space
• Working with the amount of space you have(a lot or a
little)
• You might have a corner or a center, or an
entire room dedicated to art
• Its not the formality of the space that matters most but
the experiences you share with your students
• A tile floor
• A table with plenty of workspace for four or five children
• Good light
• Storage shelves
• Space for paintings to dry
• Space for three dimensional sculptures to dry

4. • Studio should be set
apart from regular
classroom

5. Materials
• Variety of materials
• Places to buy materials
• Hardware stores
• Restaurant supply stores
• Kitchenware stores
• Yard sales
• Typical arts and crafts stores(Ac Moore, Michaels)
• Discount School Supply
• Dick Blick
• Creation Station

6. Gathering the Students
• Small groups
• Strategies
– Ask help from parents
– “Floater” positions
– “Trading time”
New Art Medium
• Make it personal
• Be simple and direct
• Use “technical” language

7. The Teacher’s Role
• Encourage children to slow down and take their
time
• Ask questions
• Call attention to each others work
• Gently coach children with new tools
• Avoid walking around the room
• Keep work space uncluttered
• Keep track of time
• Always try the project before you do it in class.
More than once.

8. Clean Up Time!
• Have a plan before you
begin
• Things to consider:
– Where the children
will put their
artwork
– How you will keep
track of the
children’s work

9. Revisiting Work
• Students need to take time
• Create storage and labeling
• Encourage students to take a break and come
back

10. Create Opportunities for Different Representing and Re-representing
Encounters an Idea or Experience
• Let the students • Encourage students to use
experiment different mediums for ideas
• Teach them how to set up a • Develop Awareness
studio space using a certain • Transforms Thinking
medium

11. Documentation
• written documentation tells stories of
children’s art education
• documentation can be used for formal
assessment and curriculum planning
• children deserve to have stories; not just
grades

12. Documentation Process
• Tell the Story
• Reflect on Story
• Describe Next Steps
and Further Plans

13. Written Documentation Uses
• children benefit from revisiting project
• allows families to see children’s exploration
and share thoughts with teachers
• meets program
requirements for keeping records

14. Displaying Children’s Work
• visual arrangement/display
• invites viewers to look closely at
children’s work
• Tips
– display across neutral background
– include close up photos of children
at work
– keep text to a minimum
– use large font
– use a title (creative)
– consider framing to enhance
aesthetics
– weave child’s poetry into a display
– include questions to invite the
viewer into work

15. Creating Portfolios
• allows children to
revisit past and see
progress
• ask child for
consideration of what
should be included in
portfolio
• invite parents in to
review portfolios

16. Reflect on Work
• Teacher should reflect on classroom
experiences
• What worked and what didn’t work?

17. Getting
Materials:
Launched – you will need a list of materials
for exploration and for cleanup.
• Setting Up The Studio
– Set up studio for children's first
encounter with an art medium
– Keep coaching students about
how they set up their workspace
for themselves
– When you set up child
workspaces, set one up for
yourself

18. Exploring & Creating
• Steps to follow, questions to pose, an aspects of
an art medium to emphasize as you explore an
art medium.
• Another important aspect is things you might
say during an art exploration
• Cleanup
– Adapt how to coach children about cleanup of an art
medium

19. Documentation & Display
• Communicate with family members about the skills
that students require during studio experiences and
how we create a history for the students of their work
in the studio
• Ways to Build Exploration
– Use suggestions for how you might use this art
medium to expand children's learning and to
strengthen their relationships with each other.

20. Art Studio Classroom
Activity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlY1Vyx5ymM