ART COMPETITION
ATAG & BDK INFO ART COMPETITION
How can we teach Global Perspectives in Art Education?
The Art Teachers’ Association of Ghana (ATAG) in collaboration with the association for art education BDK e.V. in Bavaria, Germanyis organising an Art competition focused onTeaching of Art lessons or project on the theme Art education in the Global Perspective. The competition solicits creative and innovative model of teaching of art in the Ghanaian context which is equally relevant in teaching art lesson or project in a global perspective or context. This implies that the art project or lesson developed must be educationally relevant to both local and global perspective of teaching art.
In the face of the changing approaches and expansion of the frontiers of the educational needs of art and art education, it has become imperative to streamline educational relevancies of art and art education to shape global perspective of the field to have a better impact on people from different cultural orientations and backgrounds. It is in the light of this that, we invite art educators to develop practical ideas for art lessons on how art education can be designed in a global perspective. Whether participants deal thematically with material in artistic processes in transcultural contexts, examine historical art in the focus of exoticism, explore contemporary strategies of art in a globalised world, jointly develop ideas on transcultural understanding – we look forward to exciting ideas!
The fundamental question guiding this competition is finding a better way of creating a practical art lesson model or project which could be in the form ofincorporating new topics and objects or by questioning the traditional canon of art in a new and different way; or through creative collaborationsof ideas/concepts and many others that could generate a robust art lesson model that suit international perspective.
For easy understanding of your entries, we would appreciate, if applicants could produce a prototype of the conceived idea or lesson and send it together with proposed project or video record (not exceeding 15minutes) the project and send it to us.
Submission process:
Submit a synopsis with the following details:
- Name of participant and the school you teach; and your addressesand active phone number).
- Aim of the project
- Project description with planned activities
- Submission of a project documentation in a MS-Word file format (max. 2-4 pages), and pictures and/or video to help explain your project better to the jury.
- Name the file ATAG BDK INFO ART COMPETITION
- Deadline for submissionby 15 February 2022 via email atagonline.org@gmail.com
Prize
Prizes will be awarded to a concept, that explains the implementation of a respective project. If your proposal is awarded a prize, you will receive financial support in the form of vouchers for the purchase of materials the execution of the actual project.
The project funding amounts to between 200 and 500 euros.
Participants: The competition is aimed at art teachers of both private and public schools (from Primary to SHS) in Ghana.
Jury: The submitted project concepts will be juried by expert artists and lecturers in art education in Ghana; and members of the BDK board, Bavaria, Germany.
Publication: Selected results will be published in the professional journal BDK INFO, Bavaria and the Journal African Art Education (JAAE).