Participatory art project to develop the creative potential of students of senior high school in Surakarta / Adam Wahida

This study aims to:
1) Develop creativity students of senior high
school through participatory art project,

2) Creating works of art according
to the socio-cultural conditions of students. This research method based participatory arts practices that is done through the phase of preparation and formation.

The preparation phase is done through:

1) elaboration, establishes the idea, and integrates the project material with socio-cultural context of students,

2) create a synthesis of learning / workshop with art
participatory practice to realize the conception of the artwork,

3) define the concepts of creation sourced of youth culture into a variety of art media,

4) plotting embodiment the concept to the final form of participatory art work in the format of two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and installation.

Phase of formation is done with:
1) exploration to seek solutions that can foster an interest and potential students through the study of art.

2) improvisation/ experimentation by giving a artistic creation workshops that involves students.

3) the embodiment of ideas into works of art done together participants (students). The results of this study indicate that students are able to express their ideas and gave rise to a personal character that is typical of young people. The works of art with the medium of comics, graphic, and the stencil is a tangible manifestation of the growth of students creativity . Involved as participants in this art project, the students were able to show the spirit of communality and solidarity to be more concerned to socio-cultural conditions.