Children working as and becoming artistsPeople who are engaged in a broad spectrum of visually led ideas and activities aligned to the expressive arts, makers and designersPeople who are engaged in the production of functional products, services and systems is about enabling time and space for active participation to nurture their creativeBeing creative or 'creativity' relates to or involves the use of the imagination or original ideas to create something. expression and imaginationImagination in philosophy is the production of sensations, feelings and thoughts informing oneself. These experiences can be re-creations of past experiences, such as vivid memories with imagined changes, or completely invented and possibly fantastic scenes. , to encourage artistic exploration and risk-taking and the communication of their own ideas.
By experimenting with different artArt refers to a diverse range of human intellectual and expressive activities and the outcomes of those activities. Within this context art is further defined as visual art and includes painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography and work made using digital media., craftCraft can be designed as intelligent making. It is technically, materially and culturally informed. Craft is the designing and hand making of individual objects and artefacts, encouraging the development of intellectual, creative and practical skills, visual sensitivity and a working knowledge of tools, materials and systems. More about craft can be found here and designDesign shapes ideas to become practical solutions and propositions for customers and users. Design is all around us, everything man made has been designed. The majority of designers work in teams, following a design brief and a process towards realising a commercially driven product, building, system or service mediums, materialsThe resources that artists, craftspeople and designers use to create work, to include thread, plastic, stone, wood, clay, paint and paper, and techniquesA procedure, formula or routine by which an outcome or artwork is achieved, to include weaving thread into cloth with a darning needle, carving wood with a chisel and throwing clay on a wheel to make a pot, and by taking inspiration from a diverse range of artists, makers and designers from different periods of time and cultures, children can come to understand the processA series of actions, changes or operations performed in the making or creating of a product or outcomes. The procedures that one goes through in creating an art-work, e.g.: the process of printmaking., nature and purpose of art and design.
Children are able to create individual and collaborative artworks that connect with and represent creative, emotional, social, or environmental points of reference.
By laying these foundations at an early age, children are equipped for the next stages of their art and design education journey, and their potential future career aspirations and pathways.
Roles include:
- ConceptualistRelating to a style of art in which unusual and interesting ideas are more important than technical skill. Adherent to the tenets of conceptualism or of conceptual art.
- Artist
- Creative
- Craft-MakerArts and crafts makers are creative individuals who earn a living off of their talents. They envision, design, and create arts and crafts designed to be worn, used, or displayed. Arts and crafts makers use a variety of tools and materials to craft their works.
- Product-Maker
- Designer
- ArchitectAn architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that have human occupancy or use as their principal purpose.
- MediaDifferent materials used by artists, such as paint, charcoal, clay and thread. Media is the plural of MEDIUM. In this context, it refers to the thing, substance or process you use to produce an artwork. For example, an oil painting is painted using the medium of oil paint; paint, ink and clay are different media. It is also used to refer to something that binds pigments together, such as oil, acrylic, gum, egg yolk or wax. Designer
- Read: AD magazine issue 34, Art Empowers, 2022. In this article, Dilys Finlay, art and design subject leader describes how in her primary school children, see themselves as artists, become empowered and start to believe that anything is possible.
