Abstract

This report describes and analyzes an art educational event that took place in the summer of 2001 at Camp White Pine. This event was a Chinese New Year Festival, along with its related workshops and preparations. My analysis focuses on two themes: (a) how this event is an example of multicultural art education; and (b) how the teaching practices used by myself and other staff exemplify certain theoretical models of art teaching method. From this analysis, I offer my own assessment of the positive and negative aspects of this kind of multicultural art education event, and brought out the question: How can we art educators avoid a shallow and unilateral understanding of Chinese culture? As part of the staff, this experience also offered me the chance to observe the staff practicing various teaching styles and methods by using models of teaching methods from the art education literature.