The Sketch Pad is a strategic, long-term research project committed to understanding the multidimensional role of drawing in children’s lives. Using thematically focused drawing provocations, The Sketch Pad invites young people to visually story their own relations to the social world. While many of the thematic provocations used will be familiar, with well-established histories in the field of art education, other provocations will elicit the uniquely situated interests and viewpoints of the children who participate. From understanding the visual resources that inform children’s drawing to making visible the ways in which drawing functions as a site for children to contemplate critique, report on, and reinvent their social and cultural worlds, The Sketch Pad aims to honor and preserve this work in children’s lives.

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