Arts and Creativity

Literacy
Definition:
Art-infused education, a compelling way to help
children learn. Using art across the curriculum
increases student engagement. Art builds 21st
century readiness and develops the
4C's: Creativity, Critical Thinking,
Communication, and Collaboration skills.
Difference of ART and CREATIVITY

Creativity focuses on the process of forming

original ideas through exploration and discovery.

Art is the product of creativity.

Artistic ability includes skills and talent to create
fine works of art: painting, drawing, sculpting,
musical composition, etc. Creativity ability is the
skill and talent to use our imagination to create and
solve. 
The Synergy Between Art and Literacy

1. Spatial Relations/Visual Literacy:

Art promotes print awareness and the ability to
differentiate scribbles, markings and shapes—as
well as directionality and position.
WHY IS VISUAL LITERACY
IMPORTANT?
• Visual Information is More Memorable
• Visual Information is Transferred Faster
• Helps Students Communicate with the World
Around Them
• Enriches Understanding
• Increases Enjoyment
WHAT FORMS OF VISUAL TEXT ARE
USED IN THE CLASSROOM?

Cave walls to computer screens and all points in between,

students are exposed to billboards, photographs, TV, video,
maps, memes, digital stories, video games, timelines, signs,
political cartoons, posters, flyers, newspapers, magazines,
Facebook, Instagram, movies, DVDs, and cell phones
wallpaper - to name but twenty! All these can serve as the
jumping off point for a lesson on visual literacy.
The Synergy Between Art and Literacy

2. Eye/Hand/Brain Coordination:
Art promotes the ability to interpret visual
information, alter that information and respond to a
continuous flow of new information being sent from
eye to hand to brain.
The Synergy Between Art and Literacy

Eye–hand coordination lies at the core of our daily

actions and interactions with objects and people
around us, and is central to understanding how the
brain creates internal models of the action space and
generates movement within it
 Eye/Hand/Brain Coordination Activities

• Coloring activity
• Name Activity – dot painting
• Making beads bracelet
• Solving puzzle
• Playing ball catch
 References
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The Arts and Literacy: What Does it Mean to be

Arts Literate? (Barton, 2013)
The Synergy Between Art and Literacy

3. Verbal Creativity : It is an ability to think

creatively and to measure one’s fluency, flexibility
and originality of a verbal form. Creative
individuals are able to generate new possibilities or
more than one solution to a problem.
Is the new way on how we can cope and show some
effort by acknowledging ourselves as inventors,
creativity can measure through expressing great
effort (creative thinking). Verbal creativity is mainly
about being creative about language may it be
spoken or written.
The Synergy Between Art and Literacy

4. Visual Creativity : It is the ability to “break

imagined integrations of familiar patterns and create
novel and useful patterns”, which is considered
multifaceted and complex and plays a critical role in
many fields, such as art, painting and sculpture.
“Every child is special”
The main character in that
story especially is visually
creative, the way he sees,
perceives, process and
makes sense of the things
around him is to visually
create images in his mind
and other patterns he can
think
Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT)
Assess how creatively a child’s works and are often
given to children to determine advance placement
or as part of an entrance examination.
Children are scored on a number of aspects. This includes:
• Creative titles for pictures
• Expressions
• Imagery
• And Humor
The Torrance tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) is
designed to identify and evaluate creative potential
using two tow parts- a Verbal test and a Figural
tests.

The Verbal test contains seven
subtests:
• Asking
• Guessing causes
• Guessing consequences
• Product Improvement
• Unusual uses
• Unusual questions
The Visual test has three subtests:
• Picture Construction (from a
marked cue)
• Picture Completion (again with
cues)
• And parallel Lines
The TTCT test is a series of figural exercises
(thinking with pictures) and verbal activities
(thinking with words) that students do to showcase
their creative abilities.

The test is used by both businesses and schools. Often, in a

school setting, a few of the exercises from the TTCT test are
chosen to be administered along with other intelligence or
achievement tests.
The Synergy Between Art and Literacy

5. Aesthetics : It is a core design principle that

defines a design’s pleasing qualities. In visual terms,
it includes factors such as balance, color, movement,
pattern, scale, shape, and visual weight.
The Synergy Between Art and Literacy

Commonly we defined aesthetically beautiful piece

of art is something which is pretty well organized
or something pleasing to the eyes.
4 Important Categories which can make
or break Aesthetics of a piece of art
• The most dominant sense in the
majority of people is our sight. VISION
We can’t stop ourselves to look at
what we find beautiful. It is as if
the light that reflects from the
beautiful design acts as a magnet
for our eyes.
Visual aesthetics have these key
elements: Color, Shape, Pattern,
Line, Texture, Visual weight,
Balance, Scale, Proximity and
Movement. Using these elements
well will help us achieve good visual
aesthetics.
4 Important Categories which can make
or break Aesthetics of a piece of art
• Our ears are capable of
perceiving a whole another level
HEARING
of aesthetic design. The ability to
hear how your car engine works,
how the digital product notifies
you of new messages and etc.
This is the power of sound
aesthetics.
Sound aesthetics have these key
elements: Loudness, Pitch, Beat,
Repetition, Melody, Pattern and
Noise. Using them well will create
enjoyable music for our users.
4 Important Categories which can make
or break Aesthetics of a piece of art
• Skin is the largest organ in our
body. It also helps us experience
TOUCH
the aesthetics. Material
aesthetics are especially
important for physical products.

Material Aesthetics key elements

are: Texture, shape, weight,
temperature, vibration and
sharpness. By mastering them we
can make our customers adore our
products.
4 Important Categories which can make
or break Aesthetics of a piece of art
• Taste and smell are sense that
help us experience aesthetics TASTE AND SMELL
even more deeply. Especially in
food industry and different
environment designs, these
senses play an important role in
experiencing aesthetics.

• Key elements are: Strength,

sweetness, sourness (for taste).
Use these elements when
possible to enhance the full
picture, so our users can feel the
aesthetics even deeper.
 CREATIVITY: HOW IT WORKS
• Creativity- measurable cognitive process that results from trials on
finding on a solution to a problem
• Comes in form of an idea and hence a cognitive process
• Creative idea comes as a result of trying to find a solution to a
problem
• Involves producing something new and of value
• Creative idea is always a) useful, and b0 purposeful
• Creativity can be of a0 intangible, or b) a physical product
• Creativity is NOT inventing and producing ideas out of a vacuum but
building up on existing ideas and replacing them.
• Both hereditary and environmental factors affect an individual’s
Creativity
• It can be developed in a conducive environment
Thank you!!