Cox, Jason M; Chung, Mitsy; Yu, Geralyn; Lewis, Lillian
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">This teaching resource proposes p</span><span style="font-weight:400;">layful artmaking as an intra-active pedagogy, an entanglement of materials, spaces, and participants (Lenz Taguchi, 2014). </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Often we, as early childhood art educators, researchers, and caregivers, encounter moments in which children utilize art materials either alone or with their peers, for imaginative play. However, these moments are rarely recognized as artmaking. If educators understand art only as learning techniques and producing representational products and images, it is difficult to claim the word “play” as a verb in artmaking. Instead, suppose we understand that play develops children’s creativity and that children’s art-making is open-ended and socially constructed within a communicable learning space. How might combining playing and artmaking lead to playing art? </span></p>
