Art Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Combining Literacy Learning and Artistic Processes
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For as long as I can remember, I have been a reader. My mom frequently tells me about
how she would read to me every opportunity that she could when I was little. That was until I
began to read to her instead. My relationship with books and reading only continued to grow
exponentially through grade school. There was even a point where I read so many books that
rather than keep newly purchased books my mom would return them to the store as soon as I
finished them. Looking back I think I consumed books more than I did read them.
In addition to being a reader, I have alternated on whether I identify myself as a writer in the
same respects. It seems like I have always know the importance of being able to explain one’s
own ideas and a part of my process of explanation includes being able to covey it through
writing. However, even in this understanding, I realize that somewhere along the line I would not
consider myself a writer in the same way that I did when I was younger and knew less about the
conventions that govern writing. Recently I have rediscovered my love for reading through the
medium of comics. It seems that this medium of storytelling captures many of the parts of
reading and writing in a way that does not seemed to be bogged down with expectations. At this
point, in my life, writing feels weighed down by ideas and conventions and a need to be perfect.
These expectations come not only internally but externally. In this semester I thought that comic
writing would free me from these expectations, and while it helped clear my mind from external
expectations the ones that I held for myself still weighed heavily on my ability to work.