Nature in Art Art in Nature

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Nature in Art Art in Nature By Genifer Best -
Elementary Art Specialist Alice Carlson Applied
Learning Center January 10, 2009 Fitzgerald
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 worldbeginning 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 Care
School Yard
Greater Community
Neighborhood
Watershed
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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, emotionallyyou 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 LifeA Study of Georgia OKeeffe
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To DeathDecomposition in Nature and Art
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To BirthA 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