As an educator, in whatever aspect or skill it may be, you have to be able to reach wide range of audience members so that not just one type of person can understand, but a variety of people can connect with what you're doing. Why this is so important- is to increase the chances of that pupil out of however many people you educate, are able to take something from the education, understand it, question and apply onto different perspectives of their own lives.
Ways of doing this can be making everyone feel comfortable asking questions no matter how obvious the answer may be, as well as encouraging them to take the information they have just received and spreading it; either it be in the way you educated them or in their own personalised perspective. However you will have to be comfortable yourself accepting questions and different views/stand points as this is helpful feedback, and therefore you could end up questioning yourself and learning something new.
My Personal Favourite Examples of Educating Through Art
Immersive/Interactive
Interactive art is a form of art that involves the spectator in a way that allows the art to achieve its purpose. Some interactive art installations achieve this by letting the observer or visitor "walk" in, on, and around them; some others ask the artist or the spectators to become part of the artwork.
TeamLAB
teamLab is a fully immersed art form whereby the art surrounds you but you may also interact with it, such as motion sensors mould to where you are and how you move. This is a great way to get people interacting with art as they become producers themselves and a brilliant example of art that's forever changing. Mixing future digital with natural effects of nature, light and wind patterns.
Gordon Matta-Clark
Gorden Matte-Clark loved but couldn't get rid of his artistic twists on meals he made, such as a sea bass in aspic, and wiggling the table so the fish looked like it was swimming upstream, this was also no exception when he cooked a full pig under the Brooklyn Bridge, setting it up using scrap for everyone to watch and fed a numerous amount of people sandwiches with homemade bread from bread makers. This was part of a performance such as the sea bass edible art.
Niki De Saint Phalle
Niki was known for making sculptures that you could touch and interact with such as the Golem. A sculpture in which it included slides to encourage kids to play and have fun with art, she also built a dragon sculpture for a child in a back garden which was originally meant to be in the middle of the garden but she thought it would be more suited on top of the hill in the garden to go with aesthetic theme.
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