Art has always been around in one form or another, helping mankind in the development of diverse activities and their outcomes.Art is as vast as an ocean, embodying a wide range of activities, such as drawing, painting, photography and architecture, etc. If we take a look at our past, we can see that the earliest form of art that mankind learnt, was painting, presented on ancient walls. Art is a way of expression, a way of joy, a way of making people understand things which can’t be done verbally. In fact, we can say that everything that is beautiful is art.Art is everywhere around us, and not just present in the museums and galleries.Every culture is associated with art.Art facilitates the preservation of culture. With the help of art, we’re able to learn the past culture and heritage of societies and facilitate future generations with the same. Art makes people optimistic about their future. Art can be used to help spread a message of inspiration, making people achieve great things in life. Art can be a form of communication between people, to focus on common issues for the betterment of humankind.We have a bad year world-wide because of the pandemic and we we need to be optimistic and we need to communicate each other.We need to make our art lessons effective again.While doing this we want to make our art students more equipped with necessary basic skills and we want to increase their key competences with creative and imaginative art activities.With our project we will use open learning opportunities and distance learning.Thus with our project 'Art rallies together internationally with students and teachers' we want to turn the disadvantages of this pandemic to an advantage for arts.Arts students don't need school walls to learn.If they need, it is for painting.We carefully selected our partners.Each acticity is specific and common for the selected countries.The participants will experience different art activities in each mobility.They will make Gilding Techniques in our mobility,Pencil-Drawing in Italy, Photograpy and Video shooting activities in Poland (Gdansk).We chose this partner from our country because they are experienced with Erasmus projects but we aren't.This is our first attempt.So if our project is funded they will help with the details and the organisation point.We will make Gothic art in Croatia, Marbling-Art (Ebru) in Turkey, Perspective drawing in Spain,Oil-Painting in Sweden.Six of the partners are schools and one is an art gallery.We want to cooperate with this galery because there are great artists and they will join the mobilities.It is very important for participaters' acquisition of key competences and basic art skills.Each school will work together with the art galleries in their cities as well.This is very important for sectoral cooperation and dissemination of the project results.Each mobility will last five days.And the partners will join the mobilities with at least four students and two teachers.Partners will choose the students according to their interests ,skills, behaviours, future targets and socio-economic situations.We want to add the disadvantaged students to the mobilities and school art works thus the social inclusion target can be fulfilled.One of the accompanying teachers will be an art teacher and the other will be an English teacher for a good communication.Before the mobilities, international online art lessons will be organised among the partners for preparation.Thus the participants will benefit distance learning effectively.During the mobilities the participants will practice with experienced teachers and painters.Thus learning by doing method will be used.We know that this is crucial for art education. The Objectives of the Project -showing the richness of the European art culture -increasing the students' artistic experiences and self confidence -giving participants a chance of interacting with different art cultures and make them more equipped -encouraging and motivating students to use arts as means of social, cultural, economic, political and historical knowledge of their own country, as well as of the partner countries -developing the language and artistic skills through practice -using open place and distance learning internationally -developing creativity, communication and promoting teamwork through international activities in order to stop the phenomenon of discrimination -creating some products: banners,drawings,paintings,posters,exhibitions,videos,short film,photos,photo album,interviews,questionnaires,surveys,booklets -the diversification of art teaching-learning methods through a practical-experimental,active-interactive approach in order to modernize the teaching/learning/evaluation process -the creation of facebook/instagram/youtube/twitter accounts of the project. In long term, the participants of this project will be more equipped on arts, more informed about other art cultures and thus more creative.
As part of our project, we wanted to try open and distance learning in the field of art. We wanted to turn the difficulties related to the pandemic to our advantage through open-space classes and effective distance learning. Visual arts students don't need walls to study. If they need walls, they need them to paint on them! Through the implementation of the project, we wanted to: - show students the riches of European artistic culture - increase students' self-confidence - enhance students' artistic experience - give participating teachers a chance to interact with different artistic cultures - encourage and motivate students to use the arts as a means of social, cultural, economic, political and historical knowledge of their own country as well as partner countries, in order to expand the space where they should feel valued - develop language and artistic skills through artistic implementation activities in order to avoid school failure - develop creativity, communication and promote teamwork through international activities to stop discrimination - to diversify teaching-learning methods of the art through a practical-experimental and active-interactive approach.
We have been struggling with Covid 19 all over the world. In most countries, schools closed and we started teaching online. In our schools, we noticed that our students quickly lost interest and focus in online lessons. And this brought students failure in school. It became really difficult to return to class when students felt unhappy and lost. For most of the students, this was a completely new experience and they encountered many difficulties. Some people didn't like it, some didn't want to accept it, but distance learning was inevitable at that time. The problem continued for many months. Students and teachers were often required to wear masks to class and this was inconvenient and art students could be the most affected as they require implementation and practice. They need face-to-face communication. And if they don't have that chance, they feel left out. Thanks to this project, we experienced open and remote learning, so art crossed the walls of the school. The implementation of the project helped the students of our schools to return to normal functioning in the school space.