1. Connecting the Adult Learner through the Arts Alice Lai Center for Distance Learning, SUNY Empire State College

2. Issues and development in the field of Art Education A modernist’s art for art’s sake approach: emphasis in the learning of traditional forms of art, art’s formal quality, and individual expression. Visual Culture Art Education movement: emphasis in a broad range of forms of art and art’s connection to life-centered, social issues and popular culture. A postmodern, critical Multiculturalist approach: recognizing that gender, race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientations, social classes and cultural characteristics are a critical part of the knowledge construction processes.

3. Teaching about diversity through the arts Representation of Women in The Visual Arts: A learning unit meant to inspire the adult learner to examine the worldview that is disseminated through visual imagery and express issues of diversity they care about through a visual production.

4. Carrie Mae Weems Lorna Simpson

5. Student’s Collage work woman as artist woman as mother woman as nurturer woman as professional woman as thinker woman as reader/learner woman in military (woman as protector & server) woman as lover ---Mary M. W.

6. Student’s Collage work Almost lost within the confines of the machines but able to see and touch the natural world... ---Andy M.

7. Student’s Collage work Advertising should depict all types of people. Some of my friend look like this... ---Carol B.

8. Student’s Collage work The color of harmony blue = peace green = prospecting white = purring lamps = light curtains = breeze clean = order layer = kitchen, table around table women meet at the kitchen table like men meet at board room to discuss life issues ---Pat. W

9. Theme: Wedding

10. Conclusion Art’s communicative quality can help people express aspects of the world or self that they could not/would not like to express through other means. Adult learner and art