How to Help Students Learn to Ask Questions
It’s important to teach students how to develop their own questions and ideas that guide their artwork, but for many, this is new and hard. A great way to help students get started is to show them examples of artists. Share the questions that the artists are asking, and the work that they create in response.
Below is an assignment that my art students are doing to kick off the school year.
Assignment:
Below are 2 videos from The Art Assignment, watch one ( or both is you wish), and respond to the questions posed below. The videos show you a theme and how various artists worked to explore, understand and tell stories about a specific theme. As you respond to the questions, feel free to add in drawings, sketches, collages, or anything that helps you to remember what you found interesting or inspiring from the video you watched.
Questions
- What are three things that you found interesting and why?
2. What is one new artist that you learned about? What is one thing about their work, subject matter, or style that you want to further explore?
3. What were 3 questions posed throughout the video that connected to and inspired the artwork?
