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Nature in Art = Art in Nature
By Genifer Best - Elementary Art SpecialistAlice Carlson Applied Learning Center
January 10, 2009Fitzgerald Elementary
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Teton Science Schools Experience
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Place Based Education• What is it?
– It is creating a personal sense of belonging in the world…beginning with “where you are now”
– It is a way of connecting - deeply to your surroundings– It is not connected to a specific place
• The outdoor classroom is an educational tool, but it is just a component of the whole.
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Learning to CareSchool Yard
Neighborhood
Watershed
Greater Community
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Using Art to Teach Life Cycles
• A process approach to artwork frees everyone from “mistakes”!
• Processes in Nature = Processes in Art• In artwork throughout the ages, the circle of life has been
depicted literally, metaphorically, ironically, emotionally…you name it!
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We Are One
All living things on Earth share a common origin. We all have bodies made of Earth and share the same life-materials.
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• We are all made of stardust. We all have bodies made of six elements which were born in the heart of a dying star – atoms of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur.
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We all share sunlight energy; we all share the same water.
We all live in communities.* From www.morning-earth.org
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Simplified “Circle of Life”
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From Life…A Study of Georgia O’Keeffe
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To Death…Decomposition in Nature and Art
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To Birth…A New Form Emerges
Plantable paper that will become flowers again in the Spring.
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Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth is my source.
– Andy Goldsworthy