Throughout Sessions 1 3 we have used the textEncounters with Materials in Early Childhoodto guide our material inquiries and help us understand mat

Throughout Sessions 1 3 we have used the textEncounters with Materials in Early Childhoodto guide our material inquiries and help us understand materials from a conceptual viewpoint.

This task is a material inquiry. The goal of the task is to explore one material and document your process. The submission will consist of a series of images and writing showing the process and your thinking while doing it. This work must be informed by the set reading.

ARTISTIC LANGUAGE

Read the introductory chapter and the material inquiry chapters 2-5 of Pacini-Ketchabaw Encounters with Materials.

Look at the Material Inquiry document in Session 1.

Choose one material and the chapter on itin the Encounters with Materials book.

Closely read the chapter for the material you have chosen, making notes and reflecting as you read.

Selectone other reading from the unit(either from eReserve or from within sessions 1 3) to support your discussion of your artistic process and how it relates to communication and expression.

MATERIAL

Get your hands on the material.

Clay - use actual clay, not playdough, not modelling clay. Use something as close to 'earth' as you can.

INQUIRY

Play with the material See what it can do. Use the Material Inquiry Document (from Session 1) to guide your thinking and provoke your exploration. Try to approach the material without an outcome or product in mind.

Use the ideas from the readings and let them influence what you do and think.

Document your playing and thinking as you go. You can take photographs or video. Draw. Write. Record. Collect rich documentation of your inquiry both the physical exploration and your thoughts.

Consider personal, social and philosophical perspectives about the material and your experience of it and how you can communicate with and through the material.

FINAL DOCUMENTATION

Refine your documentation. Include the best parts of your play and exploration and connect what you are doing, thinking and feeling to ideas in the readings. Make clear links, referenced correctly with in-text citations, to the readings.

Choose a program/application to present your written and visual documentation. This could be photos on a Word Doc, PowerPoint, a Padlet, a video, an audio recording or a combination of these - there are many possibilities.

All sources should be referenced correctly,using APA 7th with in-text citations throughout the documentation. Include a Reference List at the end.