Local Art Knowledge: Within Children's Art Work and Outside School Culture

Abstract

Disparities between what is learned about art in formalized school instruction and what constitutes an informal, local knowledge of art are suggested by studies indicating that children engage in art production and appreciation very different from their formal school experiences in art. The purpose of this paper is to explore differences between school and local art knowledge and to develop the theoretical rationale for art instruction that encompasses aspects of local art knowledge and experiences and that more specifically relates to the life worlds of young children. After a series of classroom lessons on linear perspective, a student is unable to render this type of perspective in drawings done in the natural environment. A graduate student prepares an exhibition of art work for review, but she does not include drawings that she works on during her spare time. A natural history museum exhibition of fishing equipment and related art forms draws record crowds of people from a wide range of occupational backgrounds; an exhibition of abstract art at an art museum is attended primarily by art professionals and students.

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