Learning art is a self-organizing system. A self-organizing system is something that, when left to itself, becomes more orderly. This is, in general, a counter-intuitive property. When a system is left to itself, we expect order to decline, almost along the lines of entropy. Entropy, however, deals with a closed system. Learning art is not a closed system as it is interconnected in many ways and on many levels to systems that surround it. In this way we deal with two other principles that may seem to be outside of the education realm: complexity and chaos. (more…)














