Art: A Journey Into the Unknown

"Art is an interpretation of experience. An appropriate activity... encourages children to look at how they look, to treat their art as an expression of their current understanding rather than as a representation of an object," asserts George Forman in Curriculum: Art, Music, Movement, Drama: A Beginnings Workshop Book. "This perspective makes art a rather paradoxical enterprise, a planned journey into the unknown, a negotiation with tools for making meaning. And art materials are just that – tools to help children make their ideas visible, their thoughts, theories, and perspectives, and in the process traverse the terrain of their own bias in order to construct a new understanding of the subject."

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