Teaching art or teaching to think like an artist? | Cindy Foley | TEDxColumbus

I am with you Cindy! I love that you care so much you almost cried at the end. 🤗

Amazing!!!! We need so much more of this!!!

This is the way I was taught art- Art History and Artist thought process to help your own artist journey

Everyone, I heartily recommend watching TED talks by Sir Ken Robinson on education and creativity.

Wow!❤ Thank you.😢

Awesome Talk Cindy Foley ! I am an Art collector and Art Researcher of 20+ years We are fighting the powers that be, Eelitists, governments Etc...they don't want critical thinking and creativity, but only a select few, it's not in Eelitists' best interest for the masses to be critical thinkers and creators. They want obedient workers that are just smart enough to push the buttons and do the admin. The archaic educational system developed in the past and that is very present today was designed to pigeonhole people into society to do just that, be obedient workers. Dont know if Google still has their employee's game and play atmosphere areas at work, but it is a great idea and a paradigm that should be incorporated into our schools.

Amazing

Really enjoyed this ted talk but i HATE her mouth sounds

She needed some water.....

"LEGOS" = rookie

creativity is marcel the shell. i want to see more of that

Excellent.

Ideas are important but execution is more important. So many people can be creative and have brilliant ideas but are not disciplined enough to focus and execute into the imagined art piece. I mean you must know the “rules” to break them-in this case rules are the standardized techniques or styles in art.

In order to execute the great ideas with freedom, techniques are the crucial tools to play with!Like sports, it’s not fun when you can’t even execute the fundamentals. Artists like any profession require vigorous amount of practice, experiment, and self-discipline to finally have the freedom to play around in a high level.

The kid who drew the horse in my opinion deserves all the praises. To draw something in accurate details, it requires intensive observation and study in the details. A kid who can do that doesn’t necessarily mean less creative than a kid who doodles in abstract mind. This concept to me is dangerous because if education praises towards more on “ideas” and less on “skills” it will demotivate kids to invest time in practicing to become a master. However I absolutely agree that it shouldn’t be all about how “well” you can draw or paint something like ai or robots - without emotion and opinion and “idea”

I agree with her mostly but for an artist, “ideas” are not everything - masters in techniques shouldn’t be underrated over poorly executed “creative ideas”.

On another note, creative kids will likely to do artistic practice on their own out of school, so teaching assessable techniques and skills are not so bad because it can become the weapons and tools since we pay and invest time to the institutions to “teach”.

I watch this video about 150 times!!

You answered so many of my personal questions on “how to create art”. And helped me see my own process on how I create programs.

Thank you for this! If you write a book I will read it.

Art is ideas manifesting. Limiting art to simulation or “beauty” is such a disservice

I do Art and I create my own Imaginary world in cartooning of everyday life with a touch of humor of what I see or hear.
Sir Ken Robinson, I loved his speech on Creativity.

That’s great but we have to face the fact that politicians and most teachers don’t want us to think or they want us to think how they want us to think.

Well done! To me she is describing Steiner Education but her talk is a great bridge to where we need to go.

I'm a first year art teacher and I always come back to this ted talk. The enthusiasm I see in one of my kids' eyes when I tell them to keep pursuing something, that the experimentation they are doing is good is honestly the best part of the job. Seeing them get so excited about their own ideas and innovations is something I can't get enough of

Artists understand these cliches and the dedicated ones, ignore them and work around them. That is how they get to be good.

Thank you so much!

Thank you for this wonderful and inspiring talk!

Every craftsman must be an apprentice in the beginning. Not sure how you can effectively reach across disciplines and synthesize info when you don’t have the foundation of even one discipline. In my opinion, what she is encouraging is the biggest reasons none of our young people know anything, and the biggest problem with modern education. Don’t do to art what’s been done to every other subject. Kids do need to learn the concepts and the rules before they can creatively break the rules.

Favorite Ted Talk by far

How to kill creativity? By saying you're "wrong". By insisting there is only one "right" interpretation everyone must adhere to. Creativity is about exploring options, perspectives, dimensions and seeing which ones stimulate growth. It's a widening, not a narrowing. A deepening, not a shallowing. Wings of imagination, not two feet planted firmly on the ground. Encourage the kids to explore!

This is much too ambitious, too many vague terms, making connections can't really be taught, good thing too, if it could the advertisers would have all our money

i like it but why she doesnt drink some water??

Thank you

Bravo....Let's re-ignite our children's comfort with ambiguity, idea generation and transdisciplinary research.

Holy smokes this is exactly what I want to create! Not for people who think they are “artists” , not just young people “who are developing”, but for the general public. Push them to think different. Push them to research and put together things in a new way. It’s so exciting to think what we can do with nothing off the table.

This mindset actually undermines what art teachers do. Show me a math teacher giving a Ted talk about “teaching for linear thinking.” Can you imagine math teachers advocating to stop teaching kids to solve math equations but instead just teach how mathematicians think because big corporations need people who are good problem solvers.

Over and over in art lectures I hear things like ambiguity, potential, and the infinite possibilities of interpretation being posed as good things. In other words, things that mean uncertainty. Is it possible the only way to upset and shock the art world today is to insist on an objective standard over mere potential?

I also feel the same pain about art education... thank you

Halfway through, Monet was brought up with the realization that they weren't teaching students to think (and see?) like Monet. In order to understand Monet's work one has to have solid drawing, study of color/color theory, understanding of light, composing of space, scale, and experience that comes from working as a painter/draughtsperson from life for some time (years). Artists, Painters, are creative because they solve problems inherent to their medium and craft, inherent to the problems of painting, such as creating space, expressing light and/or color, expressing movement, putting disparate elements together within a composition, and so on. The creative sense of 'play' is inherent, I think, to curious minds, but one can't solve the inherent problems found within a field of they are not aware of them. And that awareness only comes from years of practice within that field, as a student and practitioner.

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I love to teach art but schools ask for degrees. I ask you; did “ Van Gogh “ graduate from an art school?
What about the other artists ?
I never go to a college to learn art .
But I can teach how to be creative.
Many blessings

All hearts ❤️

This method of teaching art aligns with Teaching for Artistic Behavior or TAB. I see this growing more each year and’s I finally jumped on the bandwagon after seeing a TAB Elementary art room in person and I realized it could be done. I hope more art teachers see this video.

I wish to be trained by Cindy Foley.

I use a lot of art integration when teaching core subjects. I find that adding art to your classroom is like adding saffron to a dish…it makes it BETTER! 🎨👍🏻

Anyone else find it ironic that she is using an ossified medium to share her message of creativity and she has added tropes to her bona fides. Additionally, she is assuming everyone can be creative with education, which is firmly grounded in the social psychological mainstream, even if its academic support is open to evaluation. Clearly she’s the most creative person in that room.

Thank you so much for this perspective. How can I to learn how to teach this way?

Brilliant

i agree with her statement. so much of art appreciation in the general public is for the best technicians, but is that art? is that creativity? i suppose any creation is, once you realize it's value for the creator.. as for the value of art to society that's a different thing altogether.

This is the best Ted Talk I have ever heard.

A constant reminder that I should express my artistry & teach/guide others to become authentic, creative artists.

Shout out sa BEED 301

THis is such an important video for everyone to see!

I might not be an artist then.