Integrated Arts?

The Integrated Arts is a model designed to offer support, extension, and supplementary experiences in content areas through interdisciplinary arts activities. The Common Core Standards' emphasis on developing depth and rigor in thought and the ability to communicate relevant information with increasing skill provides the necessary impetus for this model. Content will be viewed through many lenses, allowing the entirety of relevant ideas to be processed and applied broadly and with added depth. Work with visual arts, music, drama, literature, writing, technology, and design will be incorporated and collaboration with classroom teachers will be ongoing. As Yeats wrote, "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". The Integrated Arts is an opportunity to light a very purposeful, very directed fire.

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Fall colors in printing practice







Take a little bit of Kindergarten enthusiasm. Mix in a dash of color theory, composition strategy, and printing practice. Cook at fun temperatures until thoughtful art choices are made. The results are striking!

The kindergartners have been working through a multiple-step project to build upon the work they did earlier in the year in color theory, composition, and new technique. Key elements that were discussed were the "rule of threes" in composition, horizon line versus sight line, printing versus painting, warm colors, and the flat crayon shading technique.

It's remarkable to see our young artists realize that through careful and reflective choices they can make great things happen. And isn't that true outside of the art world as well?
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