RESOURCE BOOK, GRADES 9-12
Making Artists
By Melissa Purtee and Ian Sands, authors of The Open Art Room
Choice-based art education is not a singular approach to teaching with a set of iron-clad rules or principles—it is a responsive teaching practice that changes over time based on student needs, classroom constraints, technology, and emerging ideas in art, culture, and education. In Making Artists, Purtee and Sands expand on the framework they established in The Open Art Room to include new methods, updated concepts, and continuous refinement of their growing practices. With both authors now working at separate schools, this book is split into two sections, each representing the author’s growth and development as a choice-based art educator.
“This book makes us reframe our practice from teaching art to teaching for creativity. It prioritizes the classroom culture we create where artists gather to question, think, and play. It delivers a range of strategies, ideas, and stories to mine.”
—Cindy Meyers Foley, Executive Deputy Director for Learning and Experience, Columbus Museum of Art
The Open Art Room
Taking inspiration from a variety of contemporary approaches, this book presents a framework for choice-based instruction for secondary level (grades 6–12) art education. The Open Art Room provides a student-
centered approach to art instruction that is inspirational, practical, and classroom-tested. Visit DavisArt.com/OpenArtRoom.
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