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Show The Utah Museum of Fine Arts University of Utah May, 1998 Our monthly meeting will be held on May 14 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Our guest speaker will be Robert Nickelson, a teacher at Payson Middle School, who will speak on Discipline-Based Art Education, a method of teaching art pioneered and developed by the Getty Center for Art Education. Since our education programs are based on the elements embodied in DBAE it is important for us to learn more about it. _ rr,;:;:===============:il P"'" : \STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING )"A k he next Steering Committee Meeting will be on May 6th. Remember to park in the spots reserved for the Advisory Board. The security guard will have a list of your names. r i SPOTLIGHT ON TECHNIQUES WHAT IS DBAE? The letters DBAE stand for Discipline-based Art Education. Discipline-based art education is a comprehensive approach to art education that takes advantage of art's special power to educate. The Getty Education Institute for the Arts advocates DBAE as an effective means by which to help students experience the visual arts in a variety of ways. Following its foundation in 1982, the Getty ducation Institute adopted the ideas of art educators who had been calling for a more holistic, comprehensive, and multifaceted ~ approach to art education. One of the p r e m i ~ 4 guiding the Getty Education lnstitute's prog;;~s ~ was that, because the creation of artworks and inquiry into the meaning of the arts are primary means through which we understand human experiences and transmit cultural values, the visual arts should be an essential part of every child's education. Educators who take the DBAE approach integrate content from the four disciplines that contribute to the creation, comprehension and appreciation of art. These disciplines of art provide the knowledge, skills and understandings that enable students to have a broad and rich experience with works of art. The four disciplines are: I.by making art (art production); 2.by responding to and making judgments about the properties and qualities that exist in visual forms (art criticism); 3.by acquiring knowledge about the contributions artists and art make to culture and society (art history); and 4.by understanding the nature, meaning and value of art (aesthetics). Not only do teachers incorporate paintings, drawings, sculpture and architecture into their · lessons, but they also include "fine," applied, craft and folk arts, such as ceramics, weaving and other textile arts along with fashion design, and photography. Students work with and study a vaiiety of visual images and objects that carry unique meaning for human beings from all cultures and times. Although there are DBAE curricula, DBAE itself is an approach to instruction and learning in art and not a specific curriculum. It exists in many ~arms to meet the needs of the community i ~ |
