Park Art at Art Museum

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Can we deliver an art lesson at the arts museum? The answer is definitely positive!

On Sunday, 20th of July, I had a fun art date with kindergarten children and their parents at the Children's Art Centre at the Taipei Museum of Fine Arts. The special children-centered exhibition, ImagePark(Figure2), was chosen as our lesson inspiration, which explored the formal elements: shapes, colors, object and human interactions, and space for play, etc.

In Figure 1, you see the improvised layout of the workstation because no art materials were allowed to be brought into the museum galleries except pencils and paper.

藝術課可以在美術館裡進行嗎？答案當然是肯定的！

7月20日（星期日），我與一群幼兒園孩子及他們的家長，在臺北市立美術館兒童藝術教育中心度過了一場充滿樂趣的藝術約會。本次課程以專為兒童策劃的展覽 《ImagePark》（圖2） 作為創作靈感，帶領孩子探索藝術的形式元素，包括形狀、色彩、物件與人物之間的互動，以及遊戲空間等概念。

如圖1所示，由於美術館展場規定，除鉛筆與紙張外，不得攜帶其他美術材料進入展覽空間，因此我們因地制宜，臨時規劃並布置了工作站，作為本次課程的創作場域。

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Before visiting the exhibition, we initiated our lesson at a large wooden bench. Children were guided to first paint the playground (the ground), build park facilities to play: monkey bars, swings, slides, seesaws, etc., and draw any other objects associated with their park experiences and memories (Figure3-5).

在參觀展覽之前，我們先在一張大型木製工作桌前展開課程。首先引導孩子們描繪遊樂場的場景（地面），接著建構公園中的遊樂設施，如攀爬架、鞦韆、溜滑梯、蹺蹺板等，並畫出其他與他們在公園中的遊玩經驗及回憶相關的事物（圖3–5）。

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After making art, we entered the children's art center and started to play and interact with featured installations on display, which reinforce children's experience of park elements.

完成藝術創作後，我們走進兒童藝術中心，開始探索、遊玩並與展出的互動裝置進行互動，進一步強化孩子們對公園元素的體驗與理解。

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Art and play are children's natural languages, and an art lesson incorporating the interactive exhibition greatly leveraged the efficacy of children's learning as shown in Figure10.

藝術與遊戲是兒童最自然的語言，而將互動式展覽融入藝術課程中，大幅提升了兒童的學習成效，如圖10所示。

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Painting, drawing, and clay building are means for children to build their visual vocabulary, which corresponds closely with verbal vocabulary. The lesson adopted the child-centered modality, allowing children to freely express their creativity within a guided framework. That is to say, both indirective and directive approaches are deployed to encourage children's free art expression through play and multimedia art making.

Art lessons don't need to take place merely in school or classroom settings. A good exhibition relatable to children can be a perfect learning venue that inspires students' imagination and creativity beyond classroom walls.

繪畫、素描與黏土塑造都是兒童建立視覺詞彙（visual vocabulary）的重要方式，而視覺詞彙與語言詞彙之間有著密切的對應關係。本課程採用以兒童為中心（child-centered）的教學模式，在教師提供適當引導的架構下，讓孩子自由發揮創意。換言之，課程結合了非指導式（non-directive）與指導式（directive）兩種教學取向，透過遊戲與多媒材藝術創作，鼓勵兒童自由地進行藝術表達。

藝術課程不必侷限於學校或教室之中。對兒童而言，一場具有高度共鳴與吸引力的展覽，本身就是一個理想的學習場域，能夠引發學生的想像力與創造力，讓學習突破教室四面牆的限制。