Transcript To No Purpose and Beyond Creativity

To No Purpose
and
Beyond Creativity
Inquiry Q’s:
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How can I slow down the creative process
to provide more reflection during
production, rather than students’ focus
directed towards the end result?
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How can I disassociate purpose with the
creative process for my students?
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How can I help students to be exploratory
makers with materials/words rather than
agenda-driven beings?
Context:
Purpose in art is always directed or associated with a finished product
in relation to replicating a style, an artist, or even an art period. With
this, students are just doing the making and not engaging in the
experience. Remove the purpose, and see if investigation may allow its
way to creep into the process. Remove the teacher-directed goal, and
students may feel less threatened through this visual process.
Take out purpose…
can students now come out to play…
for the bully is not around.
Everyday Painting
No Purpose
No Thinking
Just Making
Just Experiencing
Add EVERY morning
Add ONLY one thing
Everyday word bank
Little Purpose
Little Thinking
Just Responding
Just Collecting
Find the Color
Find the Category
Add EVERY morning
Add ONLY one word
Word Categories
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1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Ly-ing (adverbs, gerunds)
Dictionary / Book
Elbow buddy
First (comes to mind)
Rhyming (set)
Shakespearian; an old English
Onomatopoeia
Doubles letter sequence (hello, need, spoon)
Right-Tight words (teenage verbiage)
Word bank formation
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Choose 10 words and label 0 – 9
Choose a number sequence:
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Pi: 3.14159265358979…
Golden ratio: 1.61803398874989…
SS#: 123-45-6789
Birth date: 05-21-1982
Phone number: 765-620-1889
Use your labeled words in accordance to the chosen
number sequence. With the first number in your
sequence use that word in your first line as the first word,
last word, or anywhere.
Continue to the second number in the sequence and use
the word associated with that number as your first, last,
or anywhere in your second line.
Continue until you use the last number in the sequence
EXAMPLE
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Words:
0-boring 1-elements 2-pickle 3-dryer 4-june,loon
5-shew 6-bang 7-seed 8-raw 9-twiddling
Sequence: Birthday: 05-21-1982
 Poem set-up: (start, end, anywhere)
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1st line: Boring
2nd line: Shew
3rd line: Pickle
4th line: Elements
5th line: Elements
6th line: twiddling
7th line: raw
8th line: pickle
Go forth and run with the idea…
please without scissors in your hand