Thesis
Communication impressions: a printmaking method for children in an elementary school setting
Master of Arts (M.A.), Drexel University
Jun 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/b3se-4h18
Abstract
The development of this method investigated how printmaking processes can be implemented into art therapy practices in an educational system for youth to address social and emotional communication. This was investigated through the blending of child-based group therapy approaches, school-based art therapy models, hybrid contemporary printmaking practices, art therapy printmaking, and Expressive Therapies Continuum frameworks. This method adapted how printmaking tools, techniques, and materials are used with school youth to be safe and accessible for social and emotional engagement, as well as addressed multiple developmental levels of student youth through specified printmaking processes. The elementary school setting was a fixed structure in which the printmaking method was facilitated through scheduled time frames for set up, safety, and therapeutic processing. The general student body, including particular students in the Art Therapy program, had a specific community culture of educational focus, behavioral expectation and social language that influenced the development of the method. Printmaking was the chosen adaptable media due to its historical and contemporary impact as a communication form for people. It shares information to others, celebrates practices in a collective holding space for individual and collaborative efforts, and the indirect process and product of the artmaking strengthens new perspective of one's own creativity and understanding.
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Details
- Title
- Communication impressions
- Creators
- Julia Burton Gotthold - DU
- Contributors
- Natalie Carlton (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)Kimberly Gavin (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Arts (M.A.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- vii, 73 pages
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Creative Arts Therapies; College of Nursing and Health Professions; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 9597; 991014632601004721