Creative Practice Showcases
Asynchronous Session
UNIQUEWAYS Podcast Report View Digital Media
Creative Practice Showcase Thomas Girard
The podcast called UNIQUEWAYS is inspired by a series of talk/ workshops I give at conferences and universities and meet-ups. It has had broad appeal. The podcast is more than just design, it shines light on the human side, and specifically on the unique angle that people have in doing what they do. This session considers the podcast and is built around a method called role play, which uses voice and writing to make, test, and iterate an idea.
From the University to the Denver Art Museum: Adapting College Students’ Creativity and Expressive Arts Course
Creative Practice Showcase Brandon Gilbert
This paper examines college students' creative, motivational, visual, and teaching experiences and perceptions of having class assignments and presentations at the Denver Art Museum and how these visits will enhance future teachers' creative practice in the classroom. My teaching strategy exercises critical thinking and exploration through activity-based, inquiry-driven learning; examples of this course's methods can be selected individually or collaboratively, aiming to learn how being at the museum enhances the creative and expressive arts pedagogical learning experience. The college students' first assignment during our first visit explores hands–on art activities in the DAM, utilizing preschool art materials and lesson planning strategies for young children; these include creative material brought by myself for college students to select whatever they choose, from marking-making materials and construction paper to puppets for story acting. My students present creative and expressive art unit lessons in PowerPoint format during visit number four at the DAM. Last, students explore an immersive cultural experience, exploring any artifact that represents them and presenting a self-identity poster board inspired by objects or images found at the DAM that they identify with. Investigating how universal, individual, collaborative, and creative art can enhance teachers’ and young children’s imagination and physical and creative experiences.
(Be)coming Home: A Community-based Art Project
Creative Practice Showcase Peisen Ding
(Be)coming Home is an art project at the Branscombe House in Richmond, Canada. It aims to create an interactive mixed-media installation that fosters communities among marginalized groups, offering a sense of belonging and care. The title has a dual meaning: "Becoming Home" signifies the artist's personal journey of finding belonging as a queer immigrant from China; "Coming Home" shows an invitation to the public to engage with the project at the Branscombe House, finding a sense of home. For example, local community members are invited to participate as collaborators to tell their definitions of home and co-create the installation through various activities, aiming to a public sense of an inclusive, shared, and caring community for Richmond residents and visitors. This paper not only showcases the artwork and the art-making process, but more importantly demonstrates the diverse meanings of home and how the concept of home can be reconstructed.
Returning to Self: Arts and Creativity in Everydayness of Becoming View Digital Media
Creative Practice Showcase Jeeyeon Ryu
In my multimodal presentation, I share a collection of writing fragments, poems, photographs, piano improvisations, and videos to explore my lived experiences of be(com)ing an a/r/tographer as a pianist, teacher, and educational researcher. By sharing my ongoing a/r/tographical journey, I discuss how I am learning to (re)discover the quiet moments of creativity in my life and the ways in which they inform, shape, and inspire my teaching praxis. In the spirit of centring the arts in teaching, learning, and research, my work is rendered through the lens of evocative qualitative inquiry. My intention and hope in sharing my everydayness as a pianist-teacher-researcher is to explore and evoke possibilities for creating more meaningful teaching and learning experiences through the arts and invite further conversations about embracing artistic practices as a pedagogical way of (re)turning to the creative self.
