#3 – Combining and Refining Ideas
I am looking a prompt 1A. I am almost ready to dig into my topic, I think, but I’m still at a point where I’m sort of figuring out how I am going to go about that. In my last post, I talked about two different topics – support for the arts in schools, and discipline systems in schools. In the feedback I got on that post, it was suggested to me to perhaps combine the topics – something which has piqued my interest. And so, I am considering looking into how art can help students in schools as a form of therapy, and just as an extra curricular. I am thinking I can interview some of my peers whose lives have been affected by the arts in schools, and gather stories about how it has helped them. I would like to think that I am an ‘expert’ on this topic because of how much my art has helped me as a way of expressing myself and branching out, and because I know so many people with similar experiences. I think that one new thing I can add to the conversation on this issue is personal experiences with it, like I mentioned, and how individual experiences can influence your art. This summer I attended Governor’s Institute on the Arts, and I certainly saw and spoke to a lot of people who were able to create amazing art of all sorts through their internal and external struggles and success.
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Hi Mariana! That’s a cool combination, and you positioned yourself really well here. I think your personal experience with art will definitely be useful as you tell this story. I also am excited to read your interviews with your peers. Something I am still wondering, though, is how you’re going to fit in the “justice and therapy” piece of it. Will you be speaking with disciplinarians in schools? Are there local non-profit initiatives or psychologists that do art therapy? Their perspective could be as important. I think that exploring art as an extracurricular AND a form of therapy might be a lot of work, and I think you may need to zoom in a little more on the latter. Of course, that is my perspective, and you’ll take this where you need to. I look forward to seeing where it goes.
I would definitely like to speak to disciplinarians in schools, and the counselors in my school also.
Hi Mariana,
Art therapy in schools in such an interesting approach to the disciplinary aspect of schools you were talking about in your previous post. I haven’t heard much about this topic, it seems like you’ll be able to offer some unique perspective on what you learn.
-Lindsey