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Liana Foxx
ART 133
Amber Ward
October 19, 2017

Unit 4 Paper

The idea of Play is often disregarded due to the lack of seriousness it entails. However,

many fail to recognize the benefits play contributes to ones overall growth and development.

Play is often associated with laughter and humor, in which laughter can play a major role in

reducing stress (Pink, 2005, p 204) and humor embodies many of the right hemispheres most

powerful attributes --- the ability to place situations in context, to glimpse the big picture, and to

combine differing perspectives into new alignments (Pink, 2005, p 198). With that said, the 21st

century art education approach including both choice-based and learner-directed approaches

ultimately assist with incorporating the idea of play into the classroom. Both of these approaches

help the student direct their pathway of education and provides them with the opportunity to

grow through opportunities to connect students work to their unique lives (Douglas and

Jaquith, 2009, p 19). Overall, the incorporation of these education approaches and play in art

help to reduce stress in the classroom and provide the student with the power to have control

over their projects while providing them with a variety of different perspectives.

In an art therapy setting, I would modify the content learned in this unit in order to best

serve my patients mental and emotional needs by having my patients make a self portrait by

creating a mask using play. I would set out a variety of different art supplies used in art and

would allow my patients to choose any of the supplies they wish to make their mask with. I

would encourage my patients to go about a less serious approach in creating their mask in order
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to incoprorate play. The mask will ultimately encompass their interpretation of their own

personal identity and after creating their mask, we can discuss with one another how the mask

reflects their identity and why they chose to create the mask in a certain manner.
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References

Douglas, Katherine M., Jaquith, Diane B. (2009). Engaging Learners Through Artmaking:

Choice-Based Art Education in the Classroom, 17-28.

Pink, Daniel H. (2005). A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future,185-205.

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