Phase 1:
Renewal
Artmaking has served to connect communities, reflect cultures, and relate human experiences for tens if not hundreds of thousands of years.
Art has always been experiential.
NO FEAR is dedicated to renewing artmaking to its’ experiential nature—a humanizing process that has served to connect communities, reflect cultures, and relate human experiences for tens of thousands of years.
Artmaking has always been experiential.
It’s only been in the past 500 years that “the arts” have become professionalized, industrialized, and ultimately objectified—all byproducts of economic interests not artistic.
Phase 2:
Research
An alternative to modern trends in instructional and theoretical training, Experiential Learning is a framework for how humans learn, develop, and create meaningful change throughout their lives.
Specifically, NO FEAR’s mission is informed and inspired by Experiential Learning pioneers including John Dewey (Art as Experience), Maxine Greene (Releasing the Imagination), Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed), and Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi (Flow: The State of Optimal Experience).
Following the Experiential Learning Cycle developed by David Kolb, NO FEAR invites young artists to:
Experience: We pave the way for students to become authors of their own artmaking by producing arts experiences that are personally relevant and meaningful to each participant.
Reflect: We welcome students to express their observations, opinions, and curiosities about arts experiences and the purposes they served.
Conceptualize: We encourage students to consider new ways of understanding art, developing artistic skills, and expressing artistry.
Experiment: We guide students to applying their newly developed skills and understanding to the production of new arts experiences which work to connect, reflect, and relate with audiences and the communities their artmaking can serve.
Phase 3:
Reimagination
An alternative to modern trends in instructional and theoretical training, Experiential Learning is a framework for how humans learn, develop, and create meaningful change throughout their lives.
Specifically, NO FEAR’s mission is informed and inspired by Experiential Learning pioneers including John Dewey (Art as Experience), Maxine Greene (Releasing the Imagination), Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed), and Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi (Flow: The State of Optimal Experience).
Following the Experiential Learning Cycle developed by David Kolb, NO FEAR invites young artists to:
Experience: We pave the way for students to become authors of their own artmaking by producing arts experiences that are personally relevant and meaningful to each participant.
Reflect: We welcome students to express their observations, opinions, and curiosities about arts experiences and the purposes they served.
Conceptualize: We encourage students to consider new ways of understanding art, developing artistic skills, and expressing artistry.
Experiment: We guide students to applying their newly developed skills and understanding to the production of new arts experiences which work to connect, reflect, and relate with audiences and the communities their artmaking can serve.