Lois Hetland and her team caused a bit of a stir by suggesting students of art may learn something about life from the act of working together to make art.
Her book ‘Studio Thinking’ here presents 8 art habits for learning.
Summarised, these are:-
Develop Craft: Learning to use and care for tools, materials, and artistic conventions.
Engage & Persist: Finding problems of personal interest and sticking with them despite frustration or difficulty.
Envision: Imagining and mentally picturing what cannot be directly observed and using this to plan.
Express: Finding meaning, emotion, or a personal vision within a work of art and communicating it.
Observe: Looking closely at the world and paying attention to visual details that are often missed.
Reflect: Questioning, explaining, and evaluating one’s own work and working process (and those of others).
Stretch & Explore: Learning to play, push beyond one’s comfort zone, embrace accidents, and discover new techniques.
Understand Art Worlds: Learning about art history, communities, and the broader creative domain.
These fit well with what I am proposing with Moving Space. It could be suggested that art is the science of the subjective and science is the art of the objective.
Here is an interesting podcast about the intersection between art and science.
Visit the Studio Thinking website here.
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