About the Art Program
What will your child be doing in art?
Children will be creating art, exploring media and learning techniques.
Children will be looking at art to learn about styles and genres, artists and techniques. In additon, they will be talking about art and reflecting on meanings, ideas, feelings and mood.
Children will be evaluating famous artwork as well as their own.
Beginning in first grade, students are introduced to the elements of design-- line, color, value, texture, shape/form, space. Older students are exposed to the principles of art which help to explain the qualities of an artwork -- balance, proportion, rhythm, emphasis, harmony, variety and unity. The elements and principles are sequentially built upon through eighth grade. This is the language of art!
Projects are designed to ensure success for all students, not just those with exceptional artistic ability. As children create artwork they learn to use a variety of techniques, tools and processes. Drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, weaving and clay are just some examples of the kind of art your child will experience throughout the school year.
Many projects are designed to reinforce and enhance what your child is learning in other subject areas.
Art instruction is aligned with the Arizona and National Visual Arts Standards. Most grade levels will complete approximately 10 projects throughout the school year. Many projects will be kept until the end of year art show in May. All projects will be returned!
I hope to create an enjoyable art experience for all students!
Ten Lessons the Arts Teach
By Elliot Eisner
The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution
and that questions can have more than one answer.
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving.
purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor number exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.
The arts traffic in subtleties.
The arts teach students to think through and within a material.
All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.
When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source
and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young
what adults believe is important.
SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92).
Children will be creating art, exploring media and learning techniques.
Children will be looking at art to learn about styles and genres, artists and techniques. In additon, they will be talking about art and reflecting on meanings, ideas, feelings and mood.
Children will be evaluating famous artwork as well as their own.
Beginning in first grade, students are introduced to the elements of design-- line, color, value, texture, shape/form, space. Older students are exposed to the principles of art which help to explain the qualities of an artwork -- balance, proportion, rhythm, emphasis, harmony, variety and unity. The elements and principles are sequentially built upon through eighth grade. This is the language of art!
Projects are designed to ensure success for all students, not just those with exceptional artistic ability. As children create artwork they learn to use a variety of techniques, tools and processes. Drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, weaving and clay are just some examples of the kind of art your child will experience throughout the school year.
Many projects are designed to reinforce and enhance what your child is learning in other subject areas.
Art instruction is aligned with the Arizona and National Visual Arts Standards. Most grade levels will complete approximately 10 projects throughout the school year. Many projects will be kept until the end of year art show in May. All projects will be returned!
I hope to create an enjoyable art experience for all students!
Ten Lessons the Arts Teach
By Elliot Eisner
The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution
and that questions can have more than one answer.
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving.
purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor number exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.
The arts traffic in subtleties.
The arts teach students to think through and within a material.
All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.
When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source
and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young
what adults believe is important.
SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92).