What can I learn about myself and the world through connecting with artists’ ideas?

In this active creative learning program, students consider the ways artists respond to and make meaning of the specific circumstances that shape their lives.

Through playful learning strategies facilitated by Artist Educators, students make personal connections and participate in shared meaning-making, drawing on their own knowledges and connecting with the ideas of artists, educators and peers. Ideas takes an inquiry approach, helping students to learn in multiple ways, including through material play, embodied experiences, inquiry-based conversation, creative writing and reflection.

Ideas: Making meaning through art invites students to consider what art can be, why artists express their ideas, and how engaging with art and self-expression can help us to reflect on personal identity, creativity, and our connections to the world around us.

With options to participate either onsite or online, Ideas focuses on works of art from across the world and always includes First Nations artist perspectives.  

Onsite

• In a 120 minute program, students will engage with 3-4 works of art with an extended artmaking experience.