Arts and Creativity

Definition

Different art forms include the visual arts and crafts, music, dance, drama and theatre, literature, film, broadcast and digital media. Within each of these categories are many more sub-groups: music might refer to western classical, world music, jazz, rock and pop, while the visual arts and crafts includes photography, painting, drawing, print-making, sculpture, ceramics, jewellery, textiles — and more.

Artists can operate in any art form, not just the visual arts. Although sometimes people may use more specific terms, such as painter, musician or writer, these are all covered by the generic ‘artist’.

While there is increasing recognition that people can be creative in any domain of learning or activity, it is also true that the arts offer particularly fertile opportunities for young people to express themselves creatively and to experience the creative achievements of others. This section focuses on arts-based creativity.

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Each year, in an event called ‘Our Theatre’, hundreds of pupils from Southwark plan and perform their own interpretation of a Shakespeare play on the stage of the Globe Theatre. The setting allows young people to work where Shakespeare did, and imagine his time in a way that would be impossible in a classroom

How far should you go?
Ofsted Report October 2008