 Fine Arts Department 8 Studio Habits of Mind
1. Develop Craft: Learning to use and care for tools & materials. Learning artistic conventions. 2. Engage & Persist: Learning to embrace problems of relevance within the art world and/or of personal importance, to develop focus and other mental states conducive to working and persevering at art tasks. 3. Envision: Learning to picture mentally what cannot be directly observed and imagine possible next steps in making a piece. 4. Express: Learning to create works that convey an idea, a feeling, or a personal meaning. 5. Observe: Learning to attend to visual contexts more closely than ordinary "looking" requires, and thereby to see things that otherwise might not be seen. 6. Reflect: Question & Explain: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process. Evaluate: Learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others in relation to standards of the field. 7. Stretch & Explore: Learning to reach beyond one's capacities, to explore playfully without a preconceived plan, and to embrace the opportunity to learn from mistakes and accidents. 8. Understand Art World: Domain: Learning about art history and current practice. Communities: Learning to interact as an artist with other artists (i.e., in classrooms, in local arts organizations, and across the art field) and within the broader society.   |
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