CLD Standards in Art Education

This sharing session explores learning curves, best practices and benefits of artmaking based on new Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) education standards that are specifically implemented in an art teacher preparation program. The presenter shares ways to translate the elements and qualities of cognition found in artmaking into language used in standards and evaluation that can show equitable qualities found in arts education along with the value of artistic expression for students and teachers.

Presenter Bio

Donna Goodwin is an assistant professor of art education at the University of Northern Colorado and also serves as the visual art content consultant for the Colorado Department of Education in Standards and Instructional Support. Her research interests support teachers and students, including arts assessment and assessment of ‘non-tested’ subjects, diverse learners and the arts and transdisciplinary learning particularly where the arts intersect with science and mathematics. She is a member of the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE) and the National Association of State Directors of Art Education (NASDAE).

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Author profile

Title: 2280 Pasos Bajo un Cielo Nublado | Artist: Hernán Jourdan | Medium: Film

When I was asked to create a work of art exploring literacy, I wanted to create a dance but I had no dancers or a studio, so I chose to use my own body in the space I had, my yard. Fluent Nature is video of micro-choreography that explores what cannot be expressed with words, how nature has its own language, and how placing the human body in nature changes the story.

Title: What Is Me and What Is Not Me | Artist: Alex Chadwell | Medium: Music

My thinking on arts and literacy centers around the concept of literacies and artmaking as both sense-making and meaning-making processes that organically and inevitably overlap, intersect, and reciprocate. Compositionally, What is me and what is not me is a sound collage of sorts (there is no notation for the piece, and I'd be hard pressed to recreate it accurately) that abstractly and aurally represents the relationships between literacies and artmaking.

Title: A Curious Honeybee | Artist: Gideon Young | Medium: Film

Offering welcome through traditional and digital elements of literacy, A Curious Honeybee provides an experiential learning environment by activating visual, musical, natural, and emotional literacies.

Title: Tercera Llamada | Artist: Karilú Forshee | Medium: Audio

La Carpa Theatre is a project that I am currently directing in the Detroit Latinx community. The project aims to strengthen and uplift youth voices through devised theatre, in the style of the Mexican Carpas. This audio was created in the theatrical environment envisioned for our project. The ways in which literacies are re-defined are at the heart of La Carpa Theatre's mission.

Title: Literaseas | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite and ink on paper with digital edits

Title: A Riddle | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits

Title: False Binaries | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits