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artwork by MCS students.
As an art educator at Maranacook Community High School,
I often have the luck and opportunity to share with
my students some of the interesting real world techniques
of my contemporaries.
Jennifer Wadsworth and Marni Lawson, two gifted artists
and innovative educators, have shared with me the Visual
Conversations (tm) process.
Learn more about the evolution of the technique at: www.gulfislandart.com and www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com
Monday, December 10, 2007
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These works are about getting the artist to interact
with the medium in a way that expresses his/her own
understanding of the source work. In this process,
the work chosen is responded to visually and serves
to clarify each artist's own unique understanding.
The process each student used to gather a sense of the
work was interactive. First, pieces were placed upside
down for students to choose from randomly.
Work began without discussion to ensure for each
participant's careful interpretation and personal
artistic expression.
Students were also reminded that there are no "right
answers" in this type of process.
Responses from student artists in the following Visual
Conversations (tm) method were created spontaneously
with inspiration, watercolor paints, and white sulphite
drawing paper.
Cheryl Oakes, a technology teacher from Wells, Maine
used Visual Conversations (tm) in her elementary school
technology curriculum and was awarded Technology Teacher
of the Year for the State of Maine in 2005.
Read the article at the Maine Arts Commission Website
link below :
More on Visual Conversations (tm): Click Here
