Art Studio Research and Learning

The studio art class focuses on fostering creative expression and experiential learning in the visual arts. Its primary goal is to cultivate students' critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills via artistic inquiry. It enhances their ability to manage materials and creative techniques. Our program aims to familiarize students with creative research, fostering their engagement in diverse artistic and research endeavors via collaborative and independent initiatives. We see the visual arts as a method of exploring creativity, allowing students to develop their own routes of learning by combining various areas of knowledge and interdisciplinary links.

This course also equips prospective educators with the skills to develop creative instructional plans for kindergarten, with a specific emphasis on integrated art learning and promoting inquiry-based learning. As part of their study, students create artworks that investigate personal, social, and cultural matters, demonstrating the generation and transmission of significance in contemporary society via visual and material culture. Students use the artistic techniques employed by contemporary artists, using a variety of materials and processes, including ceramics, painting, digital media, constructions, collages, clay, plaster, wood, soap, and other mediums. They participate in many creative methods, such as printing, clay modeling, carving, casting, mold-making, assemblage, costume fabrication, artistic social interventions, performances, and video. By engaging in these methods, students use their creativity to modify well-known pictures and conduct a thorough analysis of their content and underlying concerns.