1/15/2026 - Week 1 / Meeting 2: Conceptual Art
REVIEW
- Creating a safe and creative space
- Harvesting a community of learners
- Changing the spatial design
- Integrated pedagogy of creativity (Gallagher 2015) & (Tan 2009)
- Suppressors of Creativity
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Unit: Art
Theme: Conceptual Art
Introduction
Most
educational systems all over the world favor or sponsor academic
subjects over the arts. This makes practically impossible for teachers
to create a creative learning environment in which the arts could be
used to teach reading, writing, math and science. However, conceptual art is a genre that allows teachers to expose children to a creative environment with no budget at all. The conceptual nature of conceptual art makes it also a great medium to expand an art lesson into an academic one.
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Learning Objectives
- Understand the importance of creativity in the learning process
- Explain the meaning of conceptual art
- Gain an awareness of the role that conceptual art can play in teaching other subjects
- Experience the creation of a conceptual art piece
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III
Main Lesson
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The Creative Process
According to Huberman
Andrew D. Huberman is an American neuroscientist and tenured associate professor in the department of neurobiology and psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has made contributions to the brain development, brain plasticity, and neural regeneration and repair fields.
In this video Dr. Huberman discusses cannabis (aka marijuana), including the biological mechanisms underlying its effects on the mind and body, its known medical applications, its impact on libido, creativity, hunger, hormones and more. We will focus on creativity since he explains the creative process from a scientific point of view. As the legal landscape for cannabis is rapidly evolving, this episode should interest a wide audience, including former/current cannabis users, those in the medical, sports, law enforcement, and educational communities and, of course, children, teenagers, and parents.
(1:17:00 - 1:25:53)
Question 1
According to Dr. Huberman, what are the factors that make creativity possible?
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EXAMPLES
Elon Musk comments on the way his mind works
Alma Deutscher, British music prodigy on sitting down and developing the melodies ...
Question 2
Based on the examples above, what are the challenges faced by highly creative people?
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Do Schools Kill Creativity?
Sir
Kenneth Robinson
Sir Ken Robinson (1950 - 2020) was a British author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies. He was director of the Arts in Schools Project and Professor of Arts Education at the University of Warwick, and Professor Emeritus after leaving the university.
In this video, produced in 2007, Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity
Min. 3:45 - 6:12 / 8:50 - 9:34 / 11:20 - 12:46 / 15:10 - end
Question 3
According to Robinson, why is creativity important in education?
Question 4
Write a brief response about Robinson's talk on Discussion Board. (Focus on his concepts of intelligence, creativity and education).
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Read in Groups
Nurturing Creativity in the Classroom
Develop your own ideas about your own creative classroom by describing what your ideal classroom would look like if you were able to turn it into the post creative classroom possible.
Discuss your response with the members of your group.
Share with the rest of the class the ideas discussed in your group.
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Read with your group
By Peter Goldie and Elizabeth Schellekens
Read the Introduction
Group 1 / Philosophy and Conceptual Art
Group 2 / What is Conceptual Art?
Group 3 / Conceptual Art as a Kind of Art
Group 4 / Conceptual Art Aesthetic Value
Group 5 / Conceptual Art, Knowledge and Understanding
Group 6 / Appreciating Conceptual Art
Question 6
Summarize the section of the Introduction that corresponds to your group. Post your summary on Discussion Board. Share your summary with the rest of the class.
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In
minute 1:47 - 2:00, the video shows a quote by Sol LeWitt. Explain in
your own words what is the main aspect of conceptual art that makes it
ideal for teaching and learning?
As an educator Julie Tamashiro presents her students with different art experiences, cultivating art appreciation. She has found that exposing children to art at an early age is more meaningful, inspiring confidence while their minds and attitudes are still in the initial stages of development. Julie believes that a huge opportunity exists at this stage, and hopes to inspire the adults of tomorrow to be fearless, take risks, and live out loud.
For over 15 years, Tamashiro has been a multiple-subject elementary school teacher. From Title 1 to the nation's highest performing schools, Tamashiro has taught every grade level in settings that represent the diversity of our public education system. Throughout her career, art has been the framework used to facilitate various learning experiences in her classroom. Her art curriculum has motivated students to tap into their creativity, challenge self-limiting beliefs, problem solve, and express themselves in extraordinary ways. Through the process of creating their own artwork, her students have learned to find their individual voices and have focus, determination, and courage.
Tamashiro currently teaches at Tulita Elementary School in the Redondo Beach Unified School District. She earned her BA from the University of California, Irvine. She resides in Redondo Beach, CA with her husband and two children. She comes from a family of public educators with her mother, Charlotte, being the most influential of all.
During the 2012-2013 school year, Tamashiro and her students were the subject of the inspiring documentary, Room 19. The documentary followed the students on a journey of learning through art, and captured their unique personal transformations as they moved beyond their own expectations. It has won Best Documentary Short - El Dorado Film Festival, 2014 and Uplifting Short Film Award, Awareness Film Festival, 2014 and also been nominated for Best Documentary Short, The Short Film Awards, 2014 and Best Documentary Short, The Short Film Awards, 2014.
In this video J. Tamashiro shares with the audience her teaching goals. Based on hr own testimony, what goals make Tamashiro's class a safe and creative learning environment?
- Gather with your groups.
- Use the chairs in the classroom to re-arrange them in a way that changes the perception of the class.
- Look at it and find the meaning of it.
- Write a short synopsis of what it means.
- Give it a title
- Take a picture or several pictures of your conceptual art piece.
- Post your pictures, your title and your synopsis on Discussion Board.
- dopamine: a chemical released in the brain that makes you feel good. Having the right amount of dopamine is important both for your body and your brain. Dopamine helps nerve cells to send messages to each other
- convergent thinking: It focuses on reaching one well-defined solution to a problem. This type of thinking is best suited for tasks that involve logic as opposed to creativity, such as answering multiple-choice tests or solving a problem where you know there are no other possible solutions.
- divergent thinking: a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions. It typically occurs in a spontaneous, free-flowing, "non-linear" manner, such that many ideas are generated in an emergent cognitive fashion.
- creativity: the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work.
- conceptual art: art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object. It emerged as an art movement in the 1960s and the term usually refers to art made from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.
- Creativity takes courage -- art In the classroom | Julie Tamashiro | TEDxRedondoBeach. https://youtu.be/omE7qaLzA70
Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
The Case for Conceptual Art. https://youtu.be/VHLs76HLon4
The Effects of Cannabis (Marijuana) on the Brain & Body | Huberman Lab Podcast #92 https://youtu.be/gXvuJu1kt48
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