"Artscientist," David Edwards

Paulette Beete wrote an article called David Edwards and the Intersection between Art and Science for the National Endowment for the Arts magazine.  According to Edwards, creativity is a mash-up of aesthetic and analytic thinking, what he calls "artscience."


http://www.nea.gov/about/NEARTS/storyNew.php?id=07-fertile&issue=2010_v3

http://www.lelaboratoire.org/en/

Michael Czarnecki works with Frank Pierce Early Childhood students

It is hard to believe that another year has flown by,  but Arts in Education at its best is taking place once again at Frank Pierce Early Childhood Center. Students are four sessions into their poet-in-residence program with poet, Mr. Michael Czarnecki, who has been working with all classes at FP. Each of the classes collectively produce a poem which will be put into a published poetry book. They will celebrate the poetry on March 25th with a Poetry Share.

Once the poetry sessions end they will have Mr. Joe Crookston, songwriter, in residence here to turn the poetry into song.  The pictures below were taken this year,  but  click on the links at the bottom of the post to get an idea how the whole program works.

Pajama Day!

http://www.gstboces.org/iss/artsineducation/FrankPierceCorning/2010-02-24-1353-46/Frank%20Pierce%20Early%20Childhood%20Center.htm

http://www.gstboces.org/iss/artsineducation/FrankPierceCorning/2010-02-24-1353-46/michael_czarnecki.htm
http://www.gstboces.org/iss/artsineducation/FrankPierceCorning/Joe%20Crookston/JoeCrookston.htm

John Maeda - Arts Education to make "STEM" "STEAM"

The following link to "The Guardian" will take you to yet another compelling argument for integrating the arts into the academic curriculum.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/nov/14/my-bright-idea-john-maeda

It is Maeda's conviction that scientists need art and artists in their professional lives in order to invent and innovate successfully, and with a particular focus on education he has toured the world to promote the idea that government-approved "Stem" subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) should be widened to include art; "turning Stem into Steam," as he puts it. This week Maeda, who is president of the Rhode Island School of Design, will expound on these ideas at an experimental installation at London's Riflemaker gallery, where he will "dispense wisdom from a sandpit".