Expanding the Repertoire for Visual Perception and Artistic Response

I had a bit of a hard time finding an article that was directly related to the subject of our recent reading, but as I was reading this month's issue of School Art's Magazine, I read an article that struck me and was directly related to this week's reading.  The article can be found here, http://www.schoolartsdigital.com/schoolarts/201303#pg26, and is titled, The Sound of Art, by Denise Clyne Ruch.  The article details a project for an elementary classroom, where students create sound suits inspired by contemporary artist Nick Cave (I know the Tiger Artists did a similar project a few semesters back as well).  

What I loved about the article was that it detailed, like this weeks reading, that students require "a repertoire of representational skills...to express ideas visually, spatially, and in time-based media (Carroll)."  Ruch's description of this project is advocating for the same principles.  She quotes Simon Nicholson in her article, stating that, "In any environment, both the degree of inventiveness and creativity, and the possibility of discovery, are directly proportional to the number and kind of variables in it."  A project such as this allows students' creativity and ability to imagine art in a number of different realms and also helps students to grow both as artists and in their repertoire for artistic response.  The article (and projects such as this) advocates for community and creativity in the art room, and though I had a rough time finding a great article to share, I found this one to be inspirational to my own imagination.