Visual art
Everyone has the capacity to be creative. Learning through art is about developing and exploring that capacity in visual terms. In art, we convey our personal experiences, thoughts, feelings, responses and ideas by experimenting, making and creating – communicating through a visual language. Pupils are able to explore and respond to issues related to society, culture, the environment and the individual. Process is equally important as product and by taking an idea as a point of departure both the individual and imaginative response are valued.
Pupils can gain both personal and social skills:
- by developing the ability to communicate on a variety of levels
- by increasing their confidence
- by working as part of a team and by being valued as an individual
- by gaining a greater aesthetic awareness
- by considering the opinions of others
- by evaluating their own and other’s work
- by appreciating and understanding context and making a connection with the work of others
cre8.ed visual artists are very experienced professional practitioners with a love for their subject and an enthusiasm to get other people involved. The vast majority are qualified teachers, whose combined experience covers the whole educational range. All have worked in schools with both pupils and teachers, and have been trained to deliver cre8.ed’s unique methodology. This combines responding to biblical text through a visual art response with a commitment to fulfilling the curriculum requirements of art as well as PSHE, RE and Citizenship, depending on the project specifications.
cre8.ed’s visual art practitioners can come into school and work with pupils for an arts week/day, either on their own or with artists from other disciplines. Contact us with your request.
“My confidence in using art as a teaching medium has greatly improved.”
“The art exercise – drawing from the senses – was the most helpful – enabled us to leave preconceptions behind. I’m looking forward to doing this with the children.”
“I am looking forward to setting up an arts club – this course has helped immensely”
“Good to link with known artist. We were put at ease. No need to have experience in Art”
“It was very valuable to have to use my imagination, when otherwise I spend all my life trying to follow a very specific detailed curriculum.”
All quotes taken from Teacher Training Workshop Evaluation Forms
For Key Stage 1-2, 3-4 or Post 16 any of cre8.ed’s themes for Religious Education, Citizenship and Values Education can be approached through art as a single discipline or in combination with drama, dance and/or music.
“We were very impressed by the input the cre8.ed team made into our Arts week. St. Josephs is a school with a wide ability range and the students have many additional problems, however Fru, Steve and Adam were able to engage all the students at the appropriate level. The choice of an Aboriginal dreamtime story for the performance fitted in with, and complemented the other activities we ran at the school. The final performance was watched by parents and governors and was thoroughly enjoyed.”
Janet Stanley , St Joseph’s School, Cranleigh