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Calligraphy & Creativity in the Classroom
Proposal abstract :
This project aims to integrate creative experience and expression into teaching a general education undergraduate course. Through the project, I will learn fundamentals of Islamic creative expression (such as Islamic calligraphy and geometric pattern-making) in material and contemporary digital formats. Using my own sensory experience of artistic learning as inspiration, I will then design and implement an artistic experience for students in my “Introduction to Islam” course. This type of artistic exercise draws upon art-based pedagogical methods that aim to create transformative experiences in the classroom. Facilitating a material and affective experience for my students will integrate embodied ways of being and knowing in the classroom, enriching our current conversations and cognitive experiences through complementary material, artistic creation and reflection.
Learning Abstract :
This project seeks to creavely engage students in learning about religion through direct engagement with religious arorms—in parcular, through integrang an experienal component in my Introduction to Islam course on Islamic calligraphy and Islamic geometric patern making.
Through this grant, I will start to learn and pracce forms of Islamic art (Arabic calligraphy and/or Islamic geometric patern making) in both tradional (material) and contemporary (digital) methods. I will deepen my own learning not only through creave pracce (taking courses on these arorms) but also through experiencing these arorms in various mediums (on paper, cloth, potery, painngs, etc.) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY, which houses the most expansive collecon of Islamic art in the United States.
My personal experience as a student of these arorms will serve as a point of departure to create an embodied, introductory Islamic art project for students in my Introduction to Islam course. I regularly teach 1-2 secons (25 students each) of this general educaon course every Fall. It is my hope that integrang an embodied experience of artmaking can help students think about Islamic art not only
This project aims to integrate creative experience and expression into teaching a general education undergraduate course. Through the project, I will learn fundamentals of Islamic creative expression (such as Islamic calligraphy and geometric pattern-making) in material and contemporary digital formats. Using my own sensory experience of artistic learning as inspiration, I will then design and implement an artistic experience for students in my “Introduction to Islam” course. This type of artistic exercise draws upon art-based pedagogical methods that aim to create transformative experiences in the classroom. Facilitating a material and affective experience for my students will integrate embodied ways of being and knowing in the classroom, enriching our current conversations and cognitive experiences through complementary material, artistic creation and reflection.
Learning Abstract :
This project seeks to creavely engage students in learning about religion through direct engagement with religious arorms—in parcular, through integrang an experienal component in my Introduction to Islam course on Islamic calligraphy and Islamic geometric patern making.
Through this grant, I will start to learn and pracce forms of Islamic art (Arabic calligraphy and/or Islamic geometric patern making) in both tradional (material) and contemporary (digital) methods. I will deepen my own learning not only through creave pracce (taking courses on these arorms) but also through experiencing these arorms in various mediums (on paper, cloth, potery, painngs, etc.) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY, which houses the most expansive collecon of Islamic art in the United States.
My personal experience as a student of these arorms will serve as a point of departure to create an embodied, introductory Islamic art project for students in my Introduction to Islam course. I regularly teach 1-2 secons (25 students each) of this general educaon course every Fall. It is my hope that integrang an embodied experience of artmaking can help students think about Islamic art not only