Erin Latham Ph.D.
Contact Information:
Erin Latham, Ph.D.
Email:
Website
Discipline:
Drawing/Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Sculpture, Other Visual Arts
Participants:
Middle School, High School, Adults, Educators, Older Adults
Settings:
Schools: Pre-K, Elementary, Middle Schools, High Schools
Community Sites: Parks & Recreation Centers, Arts Centers, Childcare Centers, Libraries, Senior Centers, Health Care Facilities
Availability:
Statewide; year-round
Bio:
Erin Latham, Ph.D., is a concept driven installation artist, printmaker, and author. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Oklahoma in 2008, Master of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in 2012, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Art Theory, Aesthetics, and Philosophy from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts in 2022. She has a passion for sharing art with others and has been a teaching artist for 12 years and a professional artist for 20 years. She has taught collegiate level art courses for several Oklahoma universities and has been a teaching artist with Edmond Fine Arts Institute for 10 years specializing in the 3rd and 4th grade arts in schools program and after school classes and camps. She has also taught previously for several other institutions including the Oklahoma City Museum of Art and Oklahoma Contemporary. She is the manager of Current Co-op LLC, an artist-run cooperative studio space. She is a co-founder of Rock Paper Scissors Collaborative, an installation-based collaborative art making team, and a co-founding artist of a former Oklahoma City-based artist collective. She has exhibited bodies of work in many spaces across the U.S. and has received multiple grants from organizations to facilitate the creation of new artwork and collaborative projects. Latham’s work is driven by collaboration and her lived experience as both an educator and lifelong learner. As an artist in residence, Latham will create arts education curriculum that is on par with Oklahoma Academic Standards while creating fun and imaginative collaborative projects that engage students and staff in representing their school and facilities through a large collaborative finished piece.
Learning Goals:
Students will follow core Oklahoma Fine Arts Standards based on grade level in order to explore their creativity through art making. These standards for K-12 would include:
Creative Process:
Learn and use vocabulary and concepts related to visual arts (VA CP 1)
Students will use art vocabulary based on the lesson by describing what they see: color, line, texture, shape, form, expression, movement, during a class consideration of each project and the artist’s represented.
Practice and refine techniques and skills related to visual arts (VA CP 2)
Students will work in a variety of media and techniques including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, 3D and 2D media.
Make creative choices and practice individual expression in application of concepts, language, techniques, and skills. (VA CP 3)
Students will make creative choices while application of techniques in relation to each specific project.
Production:
Utilize a variety of ideas and subject matter in creation of original art works.
The utilization of different techniques, subject matter, and materials is sufficient for this benchmark.
Use different media, supplies, and tools in an appropriate manner in the creation of original artworks.
Students will use a variety of media and tools to create the works in these lessons.
Demonstrate appropriate skill level in application and knowledge of techniques, skills, and concepts, through the creation of original visual artworks.
This will be achieved through the fabrication of the art work and learning new skills.
Revising and Refining artworks to create finished work of art.
This can be achieved in a group critique of the final products and revisions if the student artist and teacher deem necessary.
Cultural and Historical Perspectives
Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding. This benchmark will be achieved in the materials presented to the student based upon the artists work and lives.
Aesthetic Refinement
Perceive, analyze and interpret, and evaluate, artistic and visual work.
This can be achieved in the final product and a critique of the work.