This presentation focuses on radical artmaking and project-based learning as a pedagogical process for building the knowledge and skills students need to succeed in the global community.
These knowledge and skills include but not limited to creative thinking, creative problem solving, multicultural education, and collaboration.
This will be a panel discussion. Each panelist will discuss their art-making process with a short presentation to define the idea of radical artmaking and project-based learning and how they work together to build knowledge and skills students need to be successful in the 21 st Century. Following this brief presentation discussing the idea of radical artmaking and project- based learning and how they work together to build knowledge and skills that students need to be successful in the 21 st Century. The panelists will demonstrate how these radical artmaking and project-based learning concepts along with current events are formulated to create works of art.
This demonstration will include examples of class projects students completed. After presenting examples of class projects, participants will discuss the process for this radical artmaking. The intent is to provide participants with directives they can used to replicate the radical artmaking ideas presented with their students.
The background for designing this radical-art-making-and-project-based-learning pedagogical is to raise the consciousness of students about issues that might affect them as they navigate a future in the global community. The global community is changing rapidly with technology that is bringing us together while diversification of communities is pulling us apart. This phenomenon can either create divisions and conflicts, which we are already witnessing, or we can educate students through the arts to be citizens who can collaborate with others who are different from them and create a 21 st Century renaissance where all people enjoy peace, equality,
justice, and freedom to blaze their own paths in life while protecting the environment. To achieve this, the arts must be at the center of the public-school curriculum. By placing the arts at the center of the public schools' curriculum, we would argue, requires radical artmaking and project-based learning along with current events to convince stakeholders of the importance of
the arts in preparing students to succeed in the 21 st Century.
Participants in this presentation are expected to learn that the radical-art-making-and- project-based-learning pedagogy along with current events can facilitate the development of creative thinking, creative problem solving, multicultural education, and collaboration skills. These skills are essential to navigate the global community and improve the human condition.