Crafting creativity & creating craft

Crafting creativity & creating craft / edited by Courtney Lee Weida (Adelphi University, New York, USA).

This nine chapter volume explores creativity in art teaching through contemporary craft. A variety of artists, educators and historians share with readers their wealth of practical resources and frameworks for utilizing craft media (fiber, ceramics, baskets, needlepoint, knitting, etc.) and craft ap...

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Other Authors: Weida, Courtney Lee (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, [2014]
Series:Advances in creativity and giftedness ; v. 8.
Subjects:
Handicraft > Study and teaching.
Art > Study and teaching > Activity programs.
ART > Folk & Outsider Art.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES > Folkcrafts.
Art > Study and teaching > Activity programs
Handicraft > Study and teaching
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Table of Contents:
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • OVERVIEW
  • PROLOGUE: MY BEGINNINGS WITH CRAFT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. FOUNDATIONS OF CRAFT IN EDUCATION
  • REFERENCES
  • 2. CRAFTING POPULAR CULTURE: A Hands on Approach
  • INTRODUCTION AND GUIDING QUESTIONS
  • CRAFT PRINCIPLES GO POP
  • RESISTING THE STATUS QUO
  • MAKING IS THINKING
  • THE CARTOON STUDIO AS LABORATORY
  • THE POWER OF PLAY
  • CRAFTING COMMUNITY
  • PRIDE IN WORK
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • 3. CRAFT OBJECTS AND STORYTELLING
  • INTRODUCTION AND GUIDING QUESTIONS
  • STARTING WITH STORY: INTERDISCIPLINARY & CROSS-CULTURAL CONNECTIONSSEQUENCE AND STORY: CONTEXT, THREADS, & SKILS OF NARRATIVE
  • WONDERFUL WORDS: ILLUSTRATING/INTERPRETING SAYINGS AND STORY STRUCTURES
  • SENSES AND STORY: EXPERIENCING AND EXPRESSING NARRATIVE
  • SELFHOOD AND STORY: IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY
  • REFERENCES
  • RESOURCE WEBSITES
  • 4. CRITIQUING CONSUMPTION THROUGH CRAFT & THE INTERNATIONAL FIBER COLLABORATIVE
  • INTRODUCTION AND RESOURCES
  • THE TREE PROJECT: IDEA(L)S OF INTERDEPENDENCE
  • KNOTTING AS METAPHOR FOR CRAFT COMMUNITIES
  • CONCLUDING COMMENTS: CRAFT ACTIVISMREFERENCES
  • 5. REMIXED/UNSTITCHED DIGITAL COMMUNITIES OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFT
  • INTRODUCTION AND GUIDING QUESTIONS
  • CRAFT CONNECTIONS
  • CRAFTING SPACES
  • CONTEXTUALIZING CRAFTS
  • CRAFTING COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATING CRAFT
  • CRAFT CONCLUSIONS
  • NOTE
  • REFERENCES
  • 6. CRAFTING INNER SPACE: Guided Visualizations for the Creative Classroom
  • INTRODUCTION
  • STRENGTHENING EXERCISE
  • CREATIVE IMAGINATION EXERCISES
  • IMAGINARY JOURNIES
  • EVERYDAY CLASSROOM USES
  • PROJECT-BASED WORK
  • RESOURCES
  • Modifications/AccommodationsVocabulary
  • Extensions
  • RESOURCES
  • 9. CONCEPTUAL, BIOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL ANALYSES OF CRAFT
  • INTRODUCTION AND GUIDING QUESTIONS
  • COMPONENTS OF CRAFT
  • THREE FIELDS OF CRAFT
  • EVOLUTIONARY ORIGIN OF CRAFTS
  • HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CRAFTS
  • Crafts as mechanical arts
  • Separation of fine arts from crafts
  • Industrialization and the disappearance of crafts
  • Revival of crafts
  • Separation of design from crafts
  • Rejection of ornamentation
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES

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