Courtney Latorre

1. How did you incorporate contemporary art as public pedagogy in your plan? Throughout this unit I incorporated contemporary art as public pedagogy in my plan by thinking deliberately about how my students would experience the act of connecting art with inner self and reflection. Not only were students utilizing their knowledge and skill in the making of art, they also were on a journey of self exploration and tasked with sharing this journey through their art. By giving students a focus, they were able to not only experience vulnerability in their own art, but also the other of others. By studying contemporary artists and even by studying the art of their classmates, students had the chance to make connections and identify uniting factors within each of us. This unit guided students to not only think about the art making, but also to move deeper into thinking about the human experience and how we can use art and music as tools for emotionally identification and expression.  2....

Part I: Unit Overview Unit Title: Emotional Regulation and Art Enduring Idea: Exploring mood in art by creating abstract works based upon feelings. Using the identification of emotions and feelings in art to help emotionally regulate. Key Concepts about enduring idea: perspective, collaboration, color, and mood Key Concepts about contemporary art as public pedagogy: expression, line, feeling, color, Essential Questions: ·       How can you represent your feelings visually? ·       How do I experience the world differently than others? ·       How do certain colors make us feel? ·       How does music influence visual art? Rationale: In my first grade classroom we have been working on identifying feelings and emotions to better identify how we are feeling. By having the vocabulary for feelings, students are able to better regulate their emo...

Thinking about ways in which we as artists and educators create work that invites the public to engage, or disrupt thinking had me thinking quite literally. What do or make that challenges routines or requires and audience to engage? I immediately connected the idea of engagement in art to socially engaged art. Thinking about how we can create something that forces interaction and possible activism. Socially engaged art is participatory by nature. It often brings the audience out of routine and requires a divergence in thinking.  I personally connected bringing public into different routes or routines with the socially engaged art I created with other art educators facilitated by Stephen Carpenter at SICA 2017. Stephen has responded to the global water crisis by creating ceramic water filters and portable presses for communities at risk to create their own water filters. After a week engaging in conversations centered around socially engaged art, as a group we worke...