The Arts and Human Development: A Psychological Study of the Artistic Process. (Emphasis on the Development of Creativity in the Child)

This chapter examines the artistic process and then encourages the readers to engage in visual and verbal projects. It contains a comparative inquiry about the ways of designing, conveying, and receiving images. The chapter comprises a comparative inquiry and a discussion about creating, conveying, and receiving art as three basic processes in communication in the arts: articulation of a visual message through creation of an electronic picture and its transitions; communication with a viewer; and reception of the artwork by a viewer. They appear to be decisive for both the traditional and digital artwork. Thus, the three levels in a creative process comprise an artist as a sender of a message (an idea), media of art (a process), and the viewer as the receiver (rethinking of an idea, interactive response by reshaping a work, new interpretation or a new idea).

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The Playwright Within: Fun, Freedom, and Agency Through Playwriting for Urban Elementary Students

Urban Education ◽

10.1177/0042085916654524 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 55 (4) ◽

pp. 592-624

Author(s):

Jenice L. View ◽

Mary Stone Hanley

Keyword(s):

Elementary Students ◽

Language Arts ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Research Question ◽

Cultural Knowledge ◽

Sense Of Agency ◽

Experienced Teacher ◽

Artistic Process ◽

The Arts ◽

Urban Elementary Students

The participants in this study are 9-year-olds who demonstrate signs of incipient alienation. Even with an experienced teacher who had a positive relationship with her students, some students describe school as boring. The arts may provide a path away from alienation when learning is embedded in the students’ cultural knowledge and when the artistic process is primary. Our research question was, “What do students learn when engaged in a playwriting experience in school?” The evidence suggests that students discovered fun, freedom, and a sense of agency with language arts as a result of their participation in the program.

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The Arts, Human Development, and Education

Journal of Aesthetic Education ◽

10.2307/3331856 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 123

Author(s):

José Rosario ◽

Elliot W. Eisner ◽

Jose Rosario

Keyword(s):

Human Development ◽

The Arts

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To Let Things Unfold (by Catching the Centre)

Nordic Journal of Dance ◽

10.2478/njd-2019-0006 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (1-2) ◽

pp. 56-64

Author(s):

Cecilia Roos

Keyword(s):

Pilot Study ◽

Creative Process ◽

Research Practice ◽

Primary Research ◽

Research Project ◽

Artistic Process ◽

The Arts

Abstract This article discusses and presents insights gained through the research project To let things unfold (by catching the centre) conducted by Jan Burkhardt and Cecilia Roos between 2016-2018 and financed by Stockholm University of the Arts. The research started with the pilot study Gestures of Exchange with us sharing an interest in how performers exchange methods during an artistic process and our aim was to explore different ways of articulating this process. In this study we realized that our interest was rather in how we can experience each other’s methods through sensation. This realization brought us into To Let Things Unfold (by Catching the Centre), a project in which we have been working on expanding the notion of sensation and practicing different ways in which experiences of sensation can be used as a material in choreographic processes. The questions we have asked ourselves are: What is the role of sensation in choreographic processes? In what ways are sensations exchanged, transformed and transacted between performers in a creative process? What kind of possibilities can emerge out of purposelessness? The act of sharing became our primary research practice supported by sensation as one of the fundaments for sharing.

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