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The boys’ play revolves around the action video game, its language, strategies, heroes, villains, obstacles, and continual updates. They know which video games their friends have and who among their classmates are not into techno games. Says the boy sporting the poof, “Randy doesn’t like video games. He’s into mythology and the Loch Ness monster.” The boys’ favorite television program is Mythbusters, which proves or disproves rumors such as “tooth fillings can pick up radio signals,” and “tanning booths can cook your internal organs.” Mutual beliefs arising from video games and television act as bonding agent among boys of this age and shape their identities.As an after-school art teacher and student-teacher supervisor, the contact I have with young artists exposes me to the screenager culture. I observe youth freely telling stories and acting out violent scenarios that appropriate the composition, language, and narrative aspects of video games. Their art making is in sharp contrast to traditional school art, where the teacher’s cautious aesthetic, the template for art production, is fabricated, uniform, and removed. The adult agenda often silences the youths whose art making must mimic the teacher’s model, or in reaction to this teacher-mandated scribing, the art making of youth resembles avoidance behavior or causes disruption. As the teacher in an after-school drawing club, with the opportunity for spontaneous, non-adult-directed drawing, I observe drawing that is violent physicality in narrative—a fantastical, repulsive, aggressive imagery heavily influenced by images promoted through electronic media that permeates the language, drawings, and narratives of the youth.Observing the boys’ extreme preoccupation with violence motivated me to pursue a qualitative study where as teacher and researcher I would reflect on the authentic art making of postmodern youth through my historical position as a boomer-generation art teacher. While I feel isolated from the lure of the video game, I do share with the youth some cultural memory and the crush of consumerism.

Drawn and Quartered: Reflections on Violence in Youth’s Art Making