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In Topic: How the arts prepare students for the future

Posted 6 May 2013

OffCenter, on 06 May 2013 - 04:09 AM, said:
Thanks, Natania, for posting that. After all the fawning over that flea market crap pictured in the "Extremely Time Consuming, Wheel Thrown, Hand Carved Pottery" thread, I needed that.

Jim

LOOOOOL .... Thanks, Jim for keeping it real!
In Topic: Teaching Creativity?

Posted 30 Apr 2013

Pres, on 28 April 2013 - 11:53 AM, said:
spring, on 27 April 2013 - 09:38 AM, said:
Hmmmmm. This reminds me of an expressive drawing class i had in school. One of the students was the Aerospace Engineering teacher at the university and a personal friend to the drawing intsructor. Over the course of the semester i saw him really struggle with the various assignments we had. Now, let me tell you that this class was by far one of the best art classes I had ever taken. My teacher, who is the head of the pictorial department, is a wealth of knowledge, technique, and experience and I am greatful for what I learned in this class. Unfortunately, all the interesting, challenging assignments in the world couldnt get him to think outside the box. He just couldnt let go and let the creativity take over and it showed. Long story short. Nope, you can't teach creativity. I used to think you could but after that class, I really saw how it is something you either have or you don't. Some people are really good at numbers, or learning languages and others are creative.

There is a certain amount of change that can be done in brain dominance though. I remember when I first started teaching I took a brain dominance test that showed my brain worked in the left of center. This meant that I was slightly left brain dominant and an analytical thinker. Several years later I took a similar test, and it showed me off the scale to the right. I don't know how much credence to put in these tests being and educator, but interesting fun anyway.

I'm not suggesting that the brain/mind is static, not by any means but there are somethings, like creativity, that we are naturally born with. For those that aren't, I think it takes time and effort to cultivate. Is it possible to be learned, yeah sure, anythings possible. But i should have mentioned I was reffereing to artistic creativity.

Creativity is also a relative term. I got this off dictionary.com

Creativity: the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination

I think along with the question "Can creativity be taught?" there is also the question "What is creativity".
In Topic: Teaching Creativity?

Posted 27 Apr 2013

Hmmmmm. This reminds me of an expressive drawing class i had in school. One of the students was the Aerospace Engineering teacher at the university and a personal friend to the drawing intsructor. Over the course of the semester i saw him really struggle with the various assignments we had. Now, let me tell you that this class was by far one of the best art classes I had ever taken. My teacher, who is the head of the pictorial department, is a wealth of knowledge, technique, and experience and I am greatful for what I learned in this class. Unfortunately, all the interesting, challenging assignments in the world couldnt get him to think outside the box. He just couldnt let go and let the creativity take over and it showed. Long story short. Nope, you can't teach creativity. I used to think you could but after that class, I really saw how it is something you either have or you don't. Some people are really good at numbers, or learning languages and others are creative.
In Topic: production numbers

Posted 23 Apr 2013

bciskepottery, on 08 April 2013 - 03:49 PM, said:
The standard by which we can all aspire . . . Issac Button, country potter. One ton per day throwing. http://www.youtube.c...h?v=l4qdGTFBRJ4

Great link, never seen it. He's such an old school bad ass. Pipe and all!
In Topic: MFA Rankings

Posted 23 Mar 2013

justanassembler, on 18 March 2013 - 11:30 PM, said:
bciskepottery, on 18 March 2013 - 05:54 PM, said:
From John Britt's NC Clay Club blog:

http://grad-schools....ramics-rankings

this might be a silly question, how are these rankings arrived at?

They ask other teachers and professionals in the discipline. the schools with the highest number of votes get higher on the list

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