Week 3- Program Brainstorming

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October 14, 2016 Week 3

Week 3 was all about brainstorming ideas for an arts program relating to the exhibition, WITNESS, that could be adaptable to all ages of children and teens.

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Please excuse my chicken scratch but essentially, these were the sketches and ideas I developed during my day at the gallery.

I had to reference and include the Core Competencies (Communication, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Positive Personal/Cultural Identity, Personal Awareness & Responsibility, Social Responsibility) outlined by the B.C. Education Curriculum and marry it to the core ideas of the exhibition (surveillance, witness, perceiving and being perceived, machine vision, technological connections).

Some ideas were

  1. Still life drawings through the view of different objects -> camera, magnifying glass, CCTV, reflection, naked eye, etc
  2. Working in pairs, where one person “witnesses the exhibition” and the other person creates a multimedia collage art from the partner’s verbal description. Later they create a fiction narrative based on the final product. Idea of witnessing art and turning it into knowledge.
  3. Taking a small frame into the gallery and “framing” a scene, drawing it, and creating a collage. Learn that everyone has a different perception of space.
  4. Creating a 3d sculpture of a creature/robot/machine that watches, surveils, and observes something. Developing ideas of what it is created to watch or not watch, etc. Creating a fictional narrative and sharing it.
  5. Machine vs. Humans -> Observing an arranged still life for 2~5mins, then in pairs or groups drawing/painting/collaging the still life from memory. (most likely for a pre-activity)
  6. Surveillance Scene -> Create a Surveillance holes on the window where kids will watch the city and pedestrians and create work from the scenes.
  7. Partner Portraits -> Partnering up and describing each other’s face. Then, drawing a self-portrait from someone else’s perspective/gaze.

Sarah, Kristina, and I got most excited about #4 and decided to develop it up as a program for the Grade 2’s coming in from Fraser Valley Elementary.