Recent art work from TAB classrooms at NAEA

Boards at the Hynes Auditorium, Boston.

National Art Education Conference in Boston, March 2005.

Paintings, drawings, collages

Hynes Auditorium, Boston

Choice-based art work

Art from choice-based schools greets delegates at the NAEA conference.

Choice-Based Art Work

A Virtual Tour of Student Work

We invite you to scroll down to visit the creation of the choice-based schools' exhibit at the Arnheim Gallery in Boston. Please click on photos to enlarge them.

Teaching for Artistic Behavior

CHOICE-BASED ART EDUCATION:
Choice-Based Art Education regards students as artists and offers them real choices for responding to their own ideas and interests through the making of art. This concept supports multiple modes of learning and teaching for the diverse needs of students. In the learning environment, resources and opportunities to construct knowledge and meaning in the process of making art are provided. Choice-Based Art Education utilizes multiple forms of assessment to support student and teacher growth.

The Teaching for Artistic Behavior Partnership includes choice-based art programs from around the United States. The concept emerged over 30 years ago in Massachusetts classrooms through the need for more authentic artmaking experiences. Brought together through Massachusetts College of Art, teachers working in isolation discovered others who also held belief in the child as the artist. With the support of MCA, NAEA and The Education Alliance at Brown University, the Teaching for Artistic Behavior Partnership was formed in 2000. The group meets several times each year; online discussions have made it possible for teachers from other states to participate.

Recent works from TAB classrooms exhibited at Arnheim Gallery

From Diane Jaquith:
"THE EXHIBIT IS UP!!! Thanks to a fabulous team of Kathy D., Kathy V.,
Lucy, Ellyn, Yoshiko, Carolyn, Carl and myself we got over 300
spectacular works of art up in just... 5 hours!!! Thank you so very
much for sending work and for giving us the courage to pull this off.
Fourteen schools from six states are represented in this show. While
I don't want to give much away, at the center of the exhibit
is the largest artwork ever made by a 5th grader (we think). Kathy D.
is working on a blog that will give you a virtual tour of the
exhibit - either as a preview for those coming to NAEA, or as the
real thing. We are hoping to make a CD of the show for future use.
For locals, the exhibit is in the Arnheim Gallery at Mass College of
Art, South Hall, just two blocks west of the MFA. It's close to the
convention site, three quick stops on the "T" public transportation."

Join us for a look at show preparation and then a virtual tour of over 300 art works. All work was made independently by students in choice-based schools. The images are small but can be viewed in larger format. Click on the image for size choices.

How will we hang it all?

We had work from fourteen schools in six states in the United States. Work
had been arriving in mysterious boxes and tubes. Our group assembled; we
felt overwhelmed at the task.